Before Columbus Foundation

This month, we're exploring the life, legacy, and work of Richard Mayhew, one of the last living members of the Spiral Arts Movement. Following a presentation o...n the artist, participants will create their own "moodscapes," using caran d’ache on paper. Richard Mayhew was once a jazz musician, but when faced with choosing between a career in music or painting, he opted for the latter. I’m painting ‘forty acres and a mule," the artist once said, referring to the land parcels and livestock promised but never granted to formerly enslaved African Americans after the Civil War. I’m painting the treaty land that was never honored for Native Americans.

Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 May 22, 1967) Know your history, know your culture. Your independence depends on your remembrance. Each one, teach one.

Poet, musician, and author Joy Harjo (1990). From the Robert Giard Papers. Call number: YCAL MSS 702.

We're excited to share more of our October poetrynew work up today by Dawad Philip, Wang Ping, Tennessee Reed, Angela Jackson, Kamau Daáood, and Jan Castro! Read at the link below.

I do not condone my image or my words out of context used to support a political position. My work from the beginning has been about equal rights, Native sovere...ignty, and a free society that values the arts, artists and creativity. Most of my time is spent close to home with my people and my family, and in that creative space of listening. I am reminded especially these days that every word has potential power and potency. If they do not have roots in the heart, in the place of vnokeckv or compassion and truth, then they will go awry. See more

Sunday, October 25, 2020, 2 p.m. Pacific. #beforecolumbusfoundation #americanbookaward https://twitter.com/SFPublicLibr/status/1320077792957108227

In 1600 Isabel de Olvera, a Spanish speaker of African & Native parentage asserted her right to freedom as she set out on an expedition from Mexico to New Mexico, 7 years before the Jamestown settlers arrived. https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/freedom-seekers

Migration Stories: Erika Lee October 22, 7:30 PM This free and open to all online event will be live-streamed via:... https://www.crowdcast.io/hallcenter Erika Lee will join us to talk about her newest book 'America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States' (2019). One of the nation’s leading immigration and Asian American historians, Erika Lee teaches American history at the University of Minnesota, where she is a Regents Professor, a Distinguished McKnight University Professor, the Rudolph J. Vecoli Chair in Immigration History, and the Director of the Immigration History Research Center. The granddaughter of Chinese immigrants, Lee grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, attended Tufts University, and received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Lee is the author of four award-winning books in U.S. immigration and Asian American history: 'At America’s Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943' (2003), 'Angel island: Immigrant Gateway to America' (co-authored with Judy Yung, 2010), and 'The Making of Asian-America' (2015). As director of the Immigration History Research Center, Lee has helped to merge immigration history with the digital humanities. She launched and oversees the National Endowment for the Humanities-funded ‘Immigrant Stories Project’ which works with recent immigrants and refugees to collect, preserve, and share their experiences with a new multi-lingual digital story-telling website and collection. She also founded and co-organized the #Immigration Syllabus, a digital educational resource offering historical perspectives to contemporary immigration debates. This speaker series is co-sponsored by the KU Center for Migration Research.

I'll be moderating a virtual reading event, featuring these three amazing, divergent writers with books out! Please share! THE TOWN OF WHISPERING DOLLS by Susan... Neville, Winner of the FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize: Stories haunted by the remains of the industrial Midwest, the opioid epidemic, and the technology of war. OUT OF NOWHERE INTO NOTHING by Caryl Pagel Essays on the apparitional, the incomprehensible, and the paranormal in conversation with art, travel, and storytelling. THE BOOK OF KANE AND MARGARET by Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi Winner of the FC2 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize: A novel about two teenage lovers who disrupt a World War II internment camp in Arizona. Zoom Registration link: https://uasystem.zoom.us//tJMlde-srTMtH9XI32jraqaM5IcRHkuC

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Happy birthday to Eddie Harris who was born on this day in 1934! Freedom Jazz Dance (Eddie Harris)... Miles Davis - Trumpet Wayne Shorter - Tenor Saxophone Herbie Hancock - Piano Ron Carter - Bass Tony Williams official - Drums Miles Davis Quintet Miles Smiles Columbia Records (1966) https://www.milesdavis.com/albums/miles-smiles/ https://youtu.be/yJ11cArknek

Gerald Horne and Ishmael Reed in conversation at the virtual book launch for Archway Editions publication of Reed's play The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda, earlier this month. "In this, his latest work, the protean Ishmael Reed--the legendary artist and prolific writer--continues to burnish his already sterling reputation by dismantling the 'Creation Myth' of the founding of the U.S., as represented in the incredibly profitable play and musical, Hamilton. Reed, a verbal acrobat of global renown, demonstrates here why he is widely considered to be the leading intellectual in the U.S. today." -Gerald Horne, author of The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the USA