BLACK ART SHAPING COMMUNITY FOR THE NEXT GENERATION
By Guest Writer Isha Hassan Black art shapes community for younger generations by connecting them to relatable common ground. To further explore this concept, I started my research into Black artists with Kansan-born painter, Aaron Douglas. His murals in New York led me to the Black Panther movement and the Harlem Renaissance. In 1934 , Aaron Douglas created an epic four-panel mural series, Aspects of Negro Life , for the New York Public Library's 135th Street branch, now the Schomburg...
