Black Artists on Change
This year was the sixty-first anniversary of the death of Malcolm X. The event takes place every year at what was the Audubon Ballroom, now the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center. The night was warm for February, and New Yorkers had enjoyed their first 50-degree day; there seemed to be a lot of people milling about Harlem that night. Police were directing traffic, and...
The inaugural Valley Society writing retreat took place October 10-12, 2025, at the Film Shack on Tully Lake in Orange, Massachusetts. We gathered in a space built by Black filmmakers for Black artists, and the posters watching over us all weekend told their own story. Robert Patton-Spruill and Patti Moreno’s Welcome to the Terrordome and Turntables hung on the walls—documentaries about...
David Andrews David Andrews is an artist with vision. I first met David at his well attended opening reception at 50 Arrow Gallery in Easthampton, MA last year. This was followed by a show, some months later, with an opening in Springfield, MA, at Art for the Soul Gallery in Tower Square. Andrews produces framed collages, like a sculptor, crafting his message by removing layers, piercing natural...
Seta Rampersad, a student at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, died in the presence of at least three other people on September 13, 1978.
Black Artists on Change