Gaston Micheaux, was a war veteran who was given the opportunity in his first year of study to paint a mural. Reflecting on the devastation of the most recent world war, three panels depict terror, hunger, and human compassion. A scared, Black woman with children evokes the mid-20th century atmosphere of threat to Black life in America.
Taylor's mural captures a snapshot of Houston’s Third Ward in the mid-20th century. An ad for Big Mama Thornton’s Harlem Stars’ performance at City Auditorium indicates that Houston is the setting. The scene is a busy and varied one; people in various sorts of dress walk around, while children play in the streets and a derelict man sits by a tree.
abstract, includes cigarette, cocktail glass, eyeballs, an amorphous form (possibly uterus), syringes inscribed MVCII and Zafina B, blue green - no damage
Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival Poets, Margaret Burroughs, Mari Evans, Sonia Sanchez, and Carolyn Rodgers appear on popular WLBT talk show, Coffee with Judy, with host Judy Moon Denson
JSU English Professor, Iley B. Mohamed interacts with Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival Participants, Audre Lorde and Mari Evans after classroom presentation.
