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A short excerpt of the Interview with Uncle Bob Ledbetter in Oil City, Louisiana, a former enslaved person, who tells about a man he worked for. Transcript: “They treat me all right. Nary a one of them never did cuss at me the whole twelve year. And…

Kendal and Nyran Gonthier hold 14 month old Nyomi at the Black Lives Matter Event on Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House in Washington, D.C.

This is a classic example of performance and art intertwining. Here Schneemann stands in front of a crowd, mostly of women artists, and undresses. She then paints her body and begins to remove a scroll from her vagina and reads the words that are…

This is an excerpt from an interview with Charles H. Rowell who interviewed Ernest Gaines, titled "This Louisiana Thing That Drives Me". The interview was conducted in Baton Rouge, LA in May 1976 then published in Callaloo in 1978.

A tower of radios, all tuned to different stations and at the lowest volume possible. The tower is structured with the older, larger, more furniture type of radios at the bottom of the tower, and the smaller, more modern radios on the top of the…

A drawing of Joe Pittman's death by the stallion horse

Handwritten notes describing the story "A Long Day in November" from his collection Bloodline. The notes describe his memory of life on the Plantation in the 1930s.

The model for this sculpture was ballet student Marie Van Goethem. Degas first made a wax sculpture of her in the nude. Then, aiming for a naturalistic effect, he dressed it in clothing made of real fabrics. When the wax sculpture was first…

Handwritten Notes of Ernest Gaines for his collection of short stories 'Bloodline'

Gaines described the picture as: "I am with 'the people' here."