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    Black History

    28 Days of Black Excellence
    Black History Month (Featuring photos from Shon Curtis)
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    Black History Month events, contests planned in Dayton area communities
    "Dance to THE MOVEMENT" by artist Alice Gatewood Waddell is among the artworks on display for Black History Month at Edward A. Dixon Gallery, 118 W. First St., in Dayton. CONTRIBUTED
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    Set in the year 2119: Cincinnati Opera to showcase Black experience through Afrofuturism
    Writer, performance poet, oral historian, and activist Tifara Brown is the librettist of "Lalovavi," which will debut at the Cincinnati Opera in June 2025. CONTRIBUTED
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    PHOTOS: Freed Will exhibit at Dayton Metro Library
    Freed Will: The Randolph Freedpeople from Slavery to Settlement is a traveling exhibition on display until March 1...
    Freed Will: The Randolph Freedpeople from Slavery to Settlement is a traveling exhibition on display until March 1, 2024 at the Dayton Metro Library’s Main Branch at 215 E. Third St. in downtown Dayton. Curated by the National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center in Wilberforce, the exhibit tells the story of one of the largest emancipations in American history when nearly 400 formerly enslaved people journeyed from Charlotte County, Virginia to Ohio’s Miami Valley. TOM GILLIAM / CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER
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    Credit: Tom Gilliam

    Hip-hop summit features local artists and activists panel, vendors and food trucks
    Jay and Nikki Webb, better known as MC Picket Fence and DJ Ladi Bounce, host Hip Hop With Us II at Dayton Metro Library West Branch on Saturday, Feb. 17, with panel discussions, vendors, food trucks and live DJ.
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    Credit: CONTRIBUTED BY DON THRASHER

    Dayton Contemporary Dance Company prepares historic concert
    For Black History Month, "In Modern Moves" is presented by the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company Feb. 17-18 at the Victoria Theatre. Pictured: DCDC company member Quentin Apollovaughn Sledge. PHOTO BY SCOTT ROBBINS
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    ‘A space for imagining’: Exploring the impact and influence of Afrofuturism
    This image released by Marvel Studios shows, from left,  Dorothy Steel as Merchant Tribe Elder, Florence Kasumba as Ayo, Angela Bassett as Ramonda, and Danai Gurira as Okoye in a scene from "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever." (Marvel Studios via AP)
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    Forgotten singles: Five Dayton R&B 45s from the 1960s
    “Dynamite” by Big Jay Bush & the House Rockers, Brenda Lee Jones’ “You’re the Love of My Life” and “Love is Amazing” by Robert Ward & the Ohio Untouchables” are among the 45 RPM singles from the 1960s by African American acts from the Miami Valley that helped set the stage for the funk generation.
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    VOICES: I challenge myself to create a new world, rather than shine light on the world we...
    Countess V. Winfrey is a professional dancer, teaching artist, and choreographer. (CONTRIBUTED: Jeanne Mam-Luft)
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    VOICES: Dayton musicians did not engage in Black music traditions — they broke them
    Rickey Vincent is the author of Funk: The Music, the People and the Rhythm of The One. (St. Martin’s Press 1996)  He is Associate Professor of Critical Ethnic Studies at California College of the Arts, and is a lecturer at UC Berkeley.   www.rickeyvincent.com (CONTRIBUTED)
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