Celebrating Black Artists

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"I am not a black artist. I am an artist." - Jean Michel Basquiat

The Artists Highlighted In This Post:
Amanda Gorman (Youth Poet Laureate)
Amy Sherald (Painter)
Angie Thomas (Writer)
Aretha Franklin (Musician)
Augusta Savage (Sculptor)
Beyoncé Knowles (Musician)
Booker T. Washington (Writer)
Calida Rawles (Photographer)
Carrie Mae Weems (Photographer)
Christie Neptune (Film Maker)
David Driskell (Painter)
Gordon Parks (Photographer)
Gwendolyn Brooks (Writer)
James Baldwin (Writer)
Jean-Michel Basquiat (Painter)
Jimmy Hendrix (Musician)
Kara Walker (Silhouette Artist)
Kerry Games Marshall (Painter)
Kerry Marshal (Painter)
Langston Hughes (Writer)
Louis Armstrong (Musician)
Mary Lovelace O’Neal (Painter)
Maya Angelou (Writer)
Meleko Mokgosi (Painter)
Niki Giovanni (Writer)
Notorious B.I.G. (Rapper)
Playwrights Horizon (Theater Group)
Rene Cox (Mixed Medium Artist)
Stevie Wonder (Musician)
Ta-Nehisi Coates (Writer)
Theaster Gates (Painter)
Toni Morrison (Writer)
Toni Morrison (Writer)
W.E.B. DuBois (Writer)
Warden Milan (Painter)
Whitney Houston (Musician)
Zora Neale Hurston (Writer)
And many more…Who are some of your favorite black artists?

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