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Jun 05, 2025

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“He should hate me; I honestly don’t understand why he doesn’t, but I’m grateful. Sometimes we love the people we should hate, and we hate the people we love, and we’re topsy-turvy, but it’s like the song my dad likes to put on the record player when he’s had a little too much to drink: ‘It’s a thin line between love and hate.’”
— Christina Hammonds Reed, The Black Kids

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Did you know that shortly after publishing The Black Kids, Christina Hammonds Reed wrote in an article for Elle magazine, “I am lucky in many ways. Amid so many nightmares, a dream of mine is coming true: I wrote a book and it’s getting published. All my parents’ sacrifices and dreams are coming to fruition.”

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Christina Hammonds Reed - The Black Kids

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October 3, 2024

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124. “It All Starts Here”

“I’m an old soul. The body of work that I’ve done, I’ve always focused on community culture, my African-American history, as well as my personal history.”

— Leroy Campbell

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Did you know that Leroy Campbell describes humanity like a garden?

“When each of the plants is whole and thriving and healthy, it is able to reach its full potential and contribute to the garden. If one of the plants becomes sick, it affects the balance of the entire garden.”

A Charleston, South Carolina, native, Leroy Campbell’s art, “Speaks of the contributions to humanity through the African American perspective.”

Master gardener, painter, storyteller, and lover of souls, Leroy Campbell paints a beautiful hope for humanity through his art, his words, and the richness of his Gullah/ Geechee heritage.

125. “5 Umezebi St., New Haven, Enugu” (2012)

“A lot of artists were bio undergrad or were about to go to med school. I run into more and more all the time. So it’s not as odd a combination as people think. A lot of scientists were actually very good artists, and it was their art background that actually made them very good biologists or scientists because being an artist is about learning to organize things and see patterns and how things fit into each other.”

— Njideka Akunyili Crosby

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Did you know that Njideka Akunyili Crosby was a recipient of a 2017 MacArthur Fellowship (a.k.a. the genius grant)?

Crosby has received numerous awards, including: the Prix Canson, 2016; Next Generation honor, New Museum, 2015; Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize, 2015; James Dicke Contemporary Artist Prize, and The Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2014.

Njideka Akunyili Crosby was born in Enugu, Nigeria, in 1983, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

126. “Georgia Mae” (2017)

“I am charting a history of change and adaptation through objects and gesture and the unstoppable forward movement of Black women.”

— Simone Leigh

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Did you know that Simone Leigh was the first artist to be commissioned for the High Line Plinth (one of the few New York City sites dedicated to a rotating series of new, monumental, and contemporary art commissions) with her monumental sculpture Brick House—unveiled in 2019?

Born in Chicago, in 1967, Leigh has created a multi-faceted body of work which she describes as, “Auto-ethnographic,” utilizing traditional forms associated with African art.

Simone Leigh has had one-person museum exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum, New York; The Tate Gallery, London; the Studio Museum in Harlem; and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and her work was included in the 2012 and 2019 Biennial exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

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