figures
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Black public figures mingle with slave forts and the most vaunted creations of high art.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
In response, he created a series of photographic collages that showed Black boxers battling corporate towers — figures that generate wealth attempting to take down the symbols of its accumulation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026
There’s a rich conversation about the efficacy of influential figures such as gangster Casper Holstein and writer Carl Van Vechten, who helped finance and support, respectively, members of the Harlem Renaissance and their work.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026
And experts like him warn it is not just politicians who are vulnerable: it is members of the media, academics, court officials and other public figures too.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
It’s my pa’s story, but he don’t tell it often ’cause he figures no one would believe him.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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