African American, African Diaspora, art, art collecting, art galleries, Black Arts Movement, Black History, Black Lives Matter, collecting art, Newark, sculpture, contemporary Roger C. Tucker III African American, African Diaspora, art, art collecting, art galleries, Black Arts Movement, Black History, Black Lives Matter, collecting art, Newark, sculpture, contemporary Roger C. Tucker III

Episode 08: Navindren Hodges, Second Generation Black Gallerist With Newark Origins, Takes The Global Lead

Navindren Hodges, Bill Hodges Gallery Director , boasts the gallery’s collection ranges from 19th-century Black artists Henry Ossawa Tanner to modernist, abstraction icon Norman Lewis to contemporaries Willie Cole and Carrie Mae Weems. Image: Demetrius Oliver, Totem, 2004

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Episode 05: Playwright Richard Wesley Shares The Black Arts Movement’s Newark Roots

Award-winning playwright, Richard Wesley, shares how the 1970s Black Arts Movement in Newark inspired his contributions to theater, film and books over the past five decades. Image: Scene from his play “The Black Terror”

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