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“The Essential Self: Meditations On The Politics of Identity”

Posted on November 15, 2015 by Leslie / 14 Comments

I have enjoyed many an hour in galleries, museums, and—quite frankly, folk’s homes and work spaces—looking at visual art, artifacts, photographs, maps, and what...

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Writing Desk belonging to Ida B. Wells -journalist, anti-lynching activist, suffragette- on view at DuSable Museum of African American history.
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