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Local artists celebrate city’s rich civil rights heritage with murals in Atlanta’s West End

November 4, 2020

If you’ve been to the West End lately, you may have noticed two huge new colorful murals on either side of the Goodwill store on Ralph David Abernathy. The murals were commissioned by the Elevate Art Festival. While the celebration is being held online this year, it will have a lasting legacy in the West…

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Congressman John Lewis, the Civil Rights Icon and Lifelong Freedom Fighter, Was a Museum Advocate Who Recognized the Importance of Art and Artists

August 16, 2020

by VICTORIA L. VALENTINE on Jul 27, 2020 • 6:58 pm AN ENDURING IMAGE of the Civil Rights Movement, John Lewis (1940-2020) took a knee. It was the summer of 1962 and he was leading a vigil outside a “whites only” swimming pool in Cairo, Ill. Photographer Danny Lyon captured the compelling image and Lewis wrote about the moment and the climate…

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