Artist Derrick Adams Secures $1.25 Million from Mellon Foundation to Create Black Baltimore Digital Database
[Photo: Derrick Adams; Photographer: Mark Poucher] According to news.artnet.com, Brooklyn-based, Baltimore-born artist Derrick Adams will receive $1.25 million from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to build the Black Baltimore Digital Database, a new archive...#JazzAppreciationMonth: The Savoy Ballroom – Harlem’s “Home of Happy Feet” (LISTEN)
by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) As #JazzAppreciationMonth nears its end, today GBN celebrates the “Home of Happy Feet” that was one of the first integrated public entertainment spaces in the U.S., Harlem’s once famous Savoy Ballroom. To read about...