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So, in Brazilian politics and internal-far-right-squabbles news, Palmares Foundation president Sergio Camargo, polemicist Olavo de Carvalho, and blogger Allan dos Santos, have been exhanging barbs in social media - including accusations of “pointing gun to pregnant woman” and “taking prostitutes to barbecue”.

[Image description: from left to right, Sérgio Camargo, Olavo de Carvalho, and Allan dos Santos.]

It started with an online broadcast by Carvalho last Monday, December 20th 2021, when he said he felt used by Jair Bolsonaro and that the “fight is lost” for the president in Brazil’s 2022 elections.

In response, Camargo, president of a government foundation dedicated to advancing Afro-Brazilian culture (but loud critic of antiracist movements), tweeted:

“Jair Bolsonaro would be a true conservative even if absolutely no intellectual has ever written a single paragraph on conservatism. He never needed and will never need a ‘professor’. Let's go! We have a country to save.” [”Professor” is how Olavo and his followers dub himself.]

Bolsonarist blogger Allan dos Santos, who was accused of partaking an informal “Hate Cabinet” (responsible for systematized spread of fake news and slander of the president’s opponents) and banned from Twitter by decision of Federal Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, used the app Telegram to defend Olavo:

“Brazil left a horde of illiterate people who, if they weren't in politics, wouldn't be able to teach a single miserable thing. They live on the salary they receive from the State and once they leave it, they won't be able to organize a student union. This Sergio Camargo is one of them. The idiocy that he spoke about Professor Olavo de Carvalho is proof that if it weren't for his little job post, no one would ever know who this unfortunate man is."

Sergio shared Allan’s text and made the following comment on Twitter:

“Brazilians are, for the most part, conservative, and have never read Olavo de Carvalho. He didn't even watch Free Tuesday. My conservatism stems solely from the upbringing I received from my parents. Anyone who speaks of 'job post’ suffers from envy and frustrated interest. He's a failed opportunist.”

 Olavo made multiple Facebook posts in response:

"The guy who strives for the communist scheme of power and at the same time asserts that he is not a communist embodies the dirtiest and most criminal type of communist agent."

 “I got into an impossible fight AND WON. Didn't that give me enough experience to teach a few useful things to those beautiful souls who only get beaten?” 

Allan took things further:

“Sérgio Camargo said that I am a ‘failed opportunist’. I never accepted the countless invitations they made me and never took a whore to a family barbecue in Brasilia, leaving everyone disconcerted. Camargo, you know very well that a house invaded without authorization with a gun pointed at a pregnant wife is greater proof than taking whores to a family barbecue. You have a long road to talk about me and Olavo, you shitty brat." 

Sergio replied in a Twitter thread:

"Someone give certain people the memo that the right has no owner and that we are not their slaves. I waive the tutelage and I don't need the approval seal of any professor and/or activist to be a conservative. It is the peak of arrogance for someone to think that there is no authentic conservatism outside of Olavism, as if it were a trademark or copyright."

The dispute reveals a split in Bolsonarism, which previously orbited smoothly together.

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Mobile barbering: 'It's like Uber, but for haircuts'

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For many black British men, barber shops are a place to hang out, chat and meet friends. But for others they waste too much time, which is why two young men have come up with a new approach – a barber shop on wheels that you book via an app.

A van painted in bright colours drives slowly down a leafy, residential road in Norwood, south London. A young man in the front garden of a house, clutching a phone, waves at the driver, who parks nearby.

They shake hands, then the driver pulls back the sliding door of the van. This reveals a sparkling, silver barber’s chair, a large mirror, a hair dryer and pots filled with a variety of scissors.

The young man hops in and puts on an apron, syncing his phone to the speakers to get some music playing. The driver – who is now his barber – gets to work with his electric clippers in the tight space. The door is still wide open to let in sunlight.

A woman walking her dog along the pavement does a double take, craning her neck back in disbelief.

“My service is like Deliveroo, or Uber Eats, but instead of delivering food, we deliver haircuts,” explains Darren Tenkorang, 24, co-founder of Trim-It.

He currently has two vans buzzing around south London and another in the north-west of the city.

Darren is confident he’s on to something.

“Male grooming is a super-important part of my culture,” he says.

But in a van? Yes, he says.

“My generation really values convenience above all else, you see.”

Darren grew up in Brixton, south London, where his mother worked as a cleaner and his father as a security guard; they had arrived from Ghana in the 1980s and had dreams of him becoming a banker, lawyer or accountant.

University was always part of the plan for him, but when the time came, he wasn’t sure which one would feel right.

It was a barber shop that helped him decide.

“It sounds silly, but the fact that there was an Afro-Caribbean black barber immediately when I got out the railway station at Brighton, to visit the University of Sussex, made me think instantly, ‘I could be OK here, I could feel at home,'” Darren says.

Afro-Caribbean hair is different from European hair and it takes some expertise to cut it well. Darren found he usually got better results with barbers who specialised in it.

“I actually prefer it if a regular hairdresser admits they don’t know how to do my hair,” he says.

“I’ve had a few bad haircuts when someone is too polite to say ‘no’, and the results can be terrible.”

Studying Business Management at Sussex, he got a one-year placement at a re-insurance firm in London – just the kind of thing his parents wanted for him.

But while he was there he realised something that made him think hard about his future. He is dyslexic.

Initially it was just a hunch, but Darren sought a professional opinion, and the diagnosis was confirmed. When he told his parents, his mother said she’d known since he was at primary school, but hadn’t mentioned it.

“She thought if I knew it might hold me back,” says Darren.

Darren reassessed his career plans.

“I became worried about all the big numbers that would be flashing around in the corporate world,” he says.

So he decided to make his own way as an entrepreneur.

Immediately he set up his first venture. It was a digital platform that used an algorithm to match clients’ personalities with all kinds of tutoring services – it quickly folded.

The following year he entered the StartUp Sussex enterprise competition for student entrepreneurs.

He decided to work on an idea he was passionate about: male grooming.

Image caption As a teenager Darren got his hair cut in traditional salons like this

Afro-Caribbean barber shops are well-known for offering a social, convivial atmosphere – a place to hang out with friends.

“My dad used to take me to the barber’s in the morning and we’d be there for hours,” says Darren. “We’d watch the football, and he would usually sip a pint of Guinness, chilling with his boys.”

Darren had enjoyed those times. But as he got older he became increasingly frustrated with the slow tempo of the experience.

“I got sick of waiting for an hour at the barber, especially on a Friday or Saturday,” he says.

Or it would be your turn next in the queue, and then the barber would go to eat, or to pick up a child, he remembers.

There was a special feeling of community, but perhaps that was more necessary for the generation before his, he wondered.

“The new generation, like me, just want a trim and to get on with their day,” says Darren. “We live our life fast-paced.”

And so the idea came to him of an app that would allow you to book an appointment at a salon for a fixed time with a specific barber.

He thought this would appeal to everyone, not just those who use Afro-Caribbean barbers. Indeed some apps were already offering a similar service.

He included within his proposal an idea that seemed to him slightly far-fetched. He would eventually like to employ barbers directly, who would drive to clients in a van: mobile barber shops on wheels.

Image caption Darren met business partner Nana Darko while at University of Sussex

Darren’s Trim-It app won the competition, and he was named the University of Sussex’s Student Entrepreneur of the Year.

The prize was £10,000. To get his company up and running, he recruited a rival from the competition, a fellow student called Nana Darko, whose confident air had impressed him.

Darren promised to make Nana rich. He was similar to him, a young black man from south London with dreams of business success.

Together they pounded the streets of Brighton, signing up barbers to their new app – all barbers, not just the Afro-Caribbean ones.

Through hard work they built the app to the point where it was getting 2,000 bookings a month.

But at the same time, the idea and the fledgling business were unravelling, says Darren.

There were constant problems with barbers not turning up on time at the salon. Negative customer feedback was building up. They also hadn’t figured out how to make any money from the platform.

In 2017, Darren left Brighton and took a full-time job with a multinational company that specialises in sports betting, while trying to keep Trim-It going in his spare time.

The competition money had dried up and the app seemed ready to die a natural death in the app store.

“Self-doubt and a bruised ego had become something I was used to dealing with,” he admits.

Nana too was feeling bitterly disappointed. He had graduated with a first in engineering. But he was missing out at dozens of job interviews in the corporate world and he couldn’t figure out why. Was it the way he presented himself, the way he talked, or perhaps the colour of his skin?

It was at this low point that Darren and Nana decided to take a risk.

They would focus on the side of the business that had at first seemed so implausible and try the idea of mobile barber vans – only this would allow them to control the whole customer experience.

Image caption Kris is a full-time barber, operating from the van

Through family and friends they were able to raise a five-figure sum in a last-ditch attempt to jump-start the business and in February 2018 the first van was ready – a Ford transit Darren customised outside his parents’ house. The back of the van was all stripped out, to turn it into a mini-barber shop, powered by an electric generator.

They recruited two full-time barbers, updated the app and waited for the bookings to come in.

Very quickly those bookings arrived. In fact by July 2018 the van was permanently fully booked.

Word spread partly due to some celebrity customers such as musicians Charlie Sloth and Sneakbo, who both have hundreds of thousands of followers on Instagram and Twitter.

As Darren and Nana had intended, the kind of people making the bookings were mostly young, black millennials – people like Lewis, from West Norwood.

“If I was 15 or 16, then I’d go to a barbershop,” says Lewis. “But I’m 23, managing properties and working part-time, so I don’t have time to go to a salon and wait for my turn.”

He might miss some of the banter in a typical Afro-Caribbean salon, but if he feels like company he can invite friends into the back of the van where there is a small bench for them to sit on, he says.

Buoyed by the early interest, Darren was able to sign up more investors, allowing the team to raise a six-figure sum. Around the same time it was becoming clear that there was a shortage of barbers catering to Afro-Caribbean people in parts of London with large numbers of well-paid workers.

“We’re finding that because there is a bigger black middle class and there’s more people working in the City, that we have pockets of customers there,” Darren says.

The van also turned out to be attractive to a new generation of black middle-class professionals looking for a haircut while working in trendy areas such as Old Street, Bethnal Green and Shoreditch.

In the first year, about half of the van’s business came in this way, says Darren.

As of this week, there are three vans in operation. The increasing number of black professionals may mean that the relatively high cost of a Trim-It cut – £25 – is not an obstacle to growth. But there are others.

Image copyright Trim-It

Image caption The service has also attracted some white and Asian customers

One obvious problem is parking. When visiting residential areas, customers often provide tips on where to park, to avoid getting a ticket. It can be easier in the evenings, when parking is free of charge.

But to cut hair in working hours in central London, the team has to find a place where they can park for a short period free of charge – no mean feat – or pay for a spot.

The difficulty of reaching customers in different parts of the city, bearing in mind London’s traffic problems, is expected to reduce if and when more vans come on stream, each serving a smaller area.

But there is also the problem of climate change – will young clients continue to feel comfortable having their hair cut in a van that runs on fossil fuels.

And of course many people in the black community still feel a strong emotional attachment to the barber shop, which was such an important meeting place for first generation immigrants.

Lawrence Agyemang works at a barber shop in Oval, south London, where Darren had his hair cut as a teenager.

Image caption Lawrence used to cut Darren’s hair when the entrepreneur was a teenager

“Young guys still want to hang out here in front of the shop, to show off their new hair styles,” he says.

And older people come even when they don’t really need a haircut, he says, to socialise, watch sport, or just share a joke.

Darren says that if his parents, 20 years ago, had thought their son would go into the barber shop business, they would have been “horrified”.

But if he can overhaul the barbering business, he thinks he might just make them proud.

“Mobile barbershops will be a thing, trust me,” he says.

Follow journalist Doug Shaw on Twitter: @dougalshawToldnews

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Black natural hair: Why women are returning to their roots – BBC News

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Image caption Kadian Pow started with a Teeny Weeny Afro when she began growing her natural curls

The natural hair movement embraces black hair that is free from extensions, wigs or straightening chemicals. But why is natural hair seen as political and what kind of support does the movement have in Britain?

When Kadian Pow was visiting London from the US in 2009 she was inspired to have her relaxed hair cut off and grow her natural curls after seeing a Matalan advert featuring a black model sporting an afro.

She says: "I was jealous of a model on a billboard. But I quickly snapped out of it, realising my own hair could do that.

"By the time I returned to the States, I had resolved to stop relaxing the roots of my sleek bob. Four months before moving permanently to the UK in April 2010, I had my hairdresser cut off the relaxed hair.

"I was left with a short crop of curls, what we in the natural hair community call a teeny weeny afro (TWA)."

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While she settled into her new life in Britain, where she was a PhD researcher and assistant lecturer in sociology at Birmingham City University, she began looking online for how to take care of her "growing mane".

She says: "No-one ever taught me to properly nourish the kinky hair that naturally grows out of my scalp.

"I was taught only to tame and manipulate it, as if it were some scary beast. And, to be honest, black women are often made to feel that way in professional and casual environments that subscribe to rigid European beauty ideals."

Her experience is echoed by other black women, who have reported being told to straighten their hair for work in the UK, and in the US where natural hair advocates took on the army.

Presumably even someone as prominent as Michelle Obama felt the pressure to sculpt and straighten - last month a rare photograph emerged of her wearing her hair au naturel, in sharp contrast to the years she spent in the White House.

Image copyright Kadian Pow

Image caption Kadian Pow had her relaxed hair cut off to go natural

Khemb Clarke has been styling natural hair since the age of 15. Now 56, she organises the Return to your Roots natural hair event in Birmingham.

She says she started with a small-scale event in 2008 and since then there has been a "real appetite" for going natural.

When she opened her own salon in 2005 she said hairdressers offering to do natural hair were rare, but they became more in demand as women moved away from the weaves and perming chemicals that can lead to hair loss.

She says: "Weaving places tension on the hairline, which starts to recede; our hair is quite fragile and there was a movement in the States away from perms and weaves and towards going natural.

"There was also a drive towards heritage, identity and a reawakening that our hair is part of who we are.

"There was a political resistance: why change to be accepted or considered professional?"

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Media captionChildren learnt how to style their own natural hair at a natural hair event

She says that while the US is "way ahead" in terms of the level of support for natural hair, the movement has gained a lot of support in the UK, particularly among young women.

"It's changing slowly, it comes from us not backing down. This is our hair, this is how it grows," she says.

"There has been an unconscious bias and a lack of understanding for how our hair is, with schools thinking perms are standard without realising the regime required to achieve that.

"Professionally too, a lot of our women are concerned - they already feel discriminated against for being black, [they worry] can I go to work and be accepted [with natural hair]?"

Indeed hair care product company SheaMoisture recently faced a backlash over its advertising campaign which was accused of making black women invisible.

Image caption Earlier this month a mother from London organised a billboard featuring natural hair to inspire girls like her daughter

The natural hair movement is huge on social media; in the UK vloggers have created hundreds of YouTube tutorials about caring for and styling natural hair.

Shannon Fitzsimmons, from Mitcham, London, who blogs as UK Curly Girl, says women regularly contact her with questions about natural hair.

She says: "The most popular questions people have about going natural are; 'But I don't know if I will like my natural hair?' 'Where can I get my natural hair cut?' and 'What products should I use to stop my hair from becoming dry?'"

She has written a book, titled Get My Curls Back!, which is all about her natural hair journey. It includes a small dictionary of the phrases that have sprung up around natural hair.

Phrases include:

Co-wash - Washing your hair using conditioner only, to avoid the harsh chemicals in shampoo and to retain moisture

Pineapple - The style of wearing your hair up in a loose ponytail, which is great for sleeping as it will reduce frizz and keep curls intact

She says when she began blogging in 2014 the natural hair movement in the UK was just beginning to take off but since then it had seen a huge rise in popularity.

"I am so happy to have been a part of the whole scene, seeing some of my favourite natural hair brands going from hard to get a hold of to now being easily accessible to everyone in the UK via mainstream beauty/cosmetic stores."

Image copyright Shannon Fitzsimmons

Image caption Shannon Fitzsimmons says there are a number of terms around natural hair, including pineapple - a loose ponytail to reduce frizz while you're asleep

Alongside the videos, women use a variety of hashtags around natural hair to share their own experiences, styles and advice on sites like Instagram and Twitter.

According to social media analysis tool Spredfast there were 554,048 posts using the hashtag #naturalhair on Instagram in the first two months of 2017. The posts received 1,646,842 comments and 81,303,058 likes.

On Twitter for the same period 49,745 tweets used the same hashtag.

It was this online community that Kadian Pow turned to, where she found mostly black and mixed-race women sharing their own journeys and knowledge.

And she says while her reasons for wanting to grow natural hair weren't political, she feels calling it a movement is correct.

"'Movement' is a suitable term for the expanding constellation of natural hair care gurus, businesses large and small, hair care videos, fashion and accessories spawned from the ingenuity of black women.

"There is an economic advantage that has come from all this, but most movements are inherently political, as they involve people working together to advance shared ideals.

"The foundation of the natural hair movement is that the hair curling from our heads is innately beautiful and should be free to exist that way."

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Mr P – One More Night Lyrics Ft. Niniola

Mr P – One More Night Lyrics Ft. Niniola

Mr P One More Night Lyrics Ft Niniola

In his latest project, Mr P links up with afro house queen, Niniola for his new single, One More Night produced by DaiHardBeats.

The record is a heavy dance tune certified to get you dancing. Mr P is not relenting in serving great tunes.

Watch, download and share your thoughts below!

Listen to One More Night

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  Black Jesus Christ

  Three Yes 3 Days of Free Time & Fun

  It has been a Great Three days of Bliss and enjoyment. Mind you I do like my job and I have no complaints regarding my workplace.  The atmosphere is good and my bosses are nice people. Yet I really needed those 3 days off. Friday was laundry and relaxation, Saturday my girlfriend turned 61 so myself and another girlfriend went took her out for her 61st Birthday to Dallas BBQ in Manhattan.

We had a great time. They are both private people and out of respect to them I will not share our Celebration photos on my blog. However the baby of our bunch who is 51 introduced us to What’s App I keep calling it What’s Up.  Too much Buggs Bunny as a child. That way we can chat and share photos with each other without announcing our private and personal lives to the entire world.  Basically unless you have your friends permission and they are comfortable with their photos being shared it’s best not too unless you just don’t value your friends.

Wayside Baptist Church

I also got to attend church today. I rarely go to church. Sometimes even when I do have Sunday’s off I’m so exhausted from work that I don’t have the strength or energy to get out of bed for the service. When I do get to service I go to Wayside Baptist church. It is walking distance from my home and I was raised in the Baptist church so there is a certain level of familiarity and comfort. Retirees. One day maybe I will be able to take some Bible classes.

The Biblical Text was Acts 8:26 to 39. We also discussed the Song of Solomon.

Today was a second graduation ceremony for the Wayside Baptist Bible Institute Graduates. Most of them are Seniors and Retirees. There were 53 students in this graduating class.

Wayside Baptist Church teaches an Afro-centric Gospel which acknowledges the presence of Blacks in the Bible.  They openly discuss and teach the African contribution to the Bible. When you research most of the countries mention in the Gospels nearly all of them are African countries.  Cush, Ethiopia, Egypt, etc….. Africa.

  Those of you African-American Baby Boomers remember growing up back in the day and the white/American/European church teaching that Black people were cursed, deserved to be slaves and be under Jim Crow. Actually that is probably what most of the Southern Bible Belt believes today. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard white preachers refer to Blacks as heathens and savages. Therefore Yes we do need a True Interpretation of the Bible and where most of the Biblical stories take place. Trust me that none of the people in the Bible had blond hair, blue eyes or straight noses.  That’s a Euro-centric viewpoint designed to keep Blacks down and in mental slavery. Definitely a strategy that encourages self hate.  Those of us of African descent know that America’s standard of beauty does not celebrate those of us with woolly hair, dark skin, wide noses or full lips. But the Bible says different.

Song of Solomon 1: 5-6

I am Black and Comely. Oh you Daughters of Jerusalem. The text uses the word “but” however it should read And. The King James version translated it incorrectly.

    The Black church also serves a social function and today I learned that there will be a Senior Housing Rally on October 9th. There was a guest speaker liaison to the Mayor’s office informing us that an 82 year old Senior woman at a Sister church who was paying her $1,300 rent with a Section 8 Voucher on time every month is being evicted because the Landlord wants her out so he can charge $3,000 per month for rent. And Yes these are normal rent prices in New York City. So you can see the effect of gentrification and you can also see why I need to work extra overtime in order to afford a place to live.  Now an 82 year old woman is way past her working days.  Another thing to consider is that we cannot blame the Republicans as both the New York Mayor and Gov. are both Democrats.

Anyway as of tomorrow it’s back to the real world. I have some 16 hour days ahead of me and I must prepare myself mentally and physically.  I will be blasting through October, November and December as these are the busiest months for the museum.

BTW, I’ve learned the Wisdom of writing and schedule Blog Posts for the Future, turning off having the comments come to my email and notifications which is why it takes me forever to answer folks.  Truthfully I know with my work schedule my window of opportunity to respond to comments is very narrow. Now if folks get offended well that’s not my aim or my fault.

                Three Yes 3 Days of Free Time & Fun Three Yes 3 Days of Free Time & Fun It has been a Great Three days of Bliss and enjoyment.

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Feature: Elmer Lucille Allen

"I love the academic environment. I am a perpetual student." — Elmer Lucille Allen

When Kentucky Center for African American Heritage Center Director Aukram Burton describes Elmer Lucille Allen as, “one of our Elders,” he is not just acknowledging that the ceramic and fiber artist is an Octogenarian. The term carries weight in various cultures, but in parts of Africa it specifically denotes a connection to ancestors, the dead who remain vested with mystical power in the kin-group, and the elder’s authority stems from the idea that they are representatives of the ancestors to the contemporary community.

Elmer Lucille Allen is as approachable and convivial as anyone you would ever meet, but she is a “senior” (the far less satisfying American appellation) who has never truly retired. She earned the gold watch, so to speak, after 31 years as a chemist at Brown-Forman, where she was the first African American chemist to be hired but that was in 1966. In the twenty years since, she has established herself as one of the most important artists in Louisville and an important influence on succeeding generations.

In person, Ms. Allen is an archetypal matriarch, speaking in the unadorned but nurturing language you would expect from any great-grandmother. She exhibits little outward evidence of the depth of her academic background, the years spent as a community activist, and the position she occupies in local history; she never wears her ‘status’ on her sleeve. She puts it this way: “I take it as an honor because what I do is part of who I am.”

“I became involved in the art scene in the early 1980s when Ken Clay, then head of Renaissance Development, held the first African American (AA) Arts Conference at the Galt House. After this conference, the Kentucky Coalition for Afro-American Arts, Inc. (KCAAA) was formed. I was the first and only president of this organization that lasted 10 years. When I decided that I did not want to continue as President, the treasury was donated to the Arts Council of Louisville. I was a charter member of the ACOL and a treasurer for four years.”

Ms. Allen states she has never felt a bias in the arts, but her history before she was an artist is another matter, and reflects the time. “Remember, I came up through a segregated system and did not have classes with a white person until I was a junior in college. I experienced racial difference when Nazareth College (now Spalding University) graduates in 1953 were looking for a place to host a graduation event. The event was eventually held at the Knights of Columbus Hall.”

“When I graduated I could not get a job as a chemist in Louisville. The only jobs available were teaching. My first job was as a clerk typist in Indianapolis, Indiana, at Fort Benjamin Harrison. There was bias on that job - one person from a city in Indiana had never been around a "colored" person, but you have to be who you are and stand up for what you believe. ‘Speak to a person even if the person does not acknowledge you.’” 

Allen took her first pottery class at Seneca High School in the late 1970’s after her children were all grown and out of the house. She never gave empty nest syndrome a chance, following up with mold ceramics or pottery classes through JCPS and New Albany adult education. But this was still just the beginning: “Then I enrolled in a ceramics class at Metro Arts Center where I studied with Melvin Rowe. Also, while I was a student there I had the pleasure to meet Laura Ross, a national ceramic artist who encouraged me to take classes at the University of Louisville with internationally recognized ceramicist - Tom Marsh.”

But studying ad hoc wasn’t enough, and, after retiring she decided to seek a masters in ceramics at U of L. It was while studying for her master’s that she was introduced to a second art media - fiber/textiles. “My thesis exhibition consisted of stenciled wall hangings and over 200 reduction fired porcelain sculptural boxes that were placed on boards on the floor, which meant you had to view the pieces while standing.”

Whatever racial or gender restrictions she encountered in her earlier life, Allen’s first years in the art world were mostly lacking in such difficulties. “I have not experienced any discrimination as a woman artist or as an artist of color. My work does not depict any culture - it speaks for itself. I create work that I enjoy making. I do not do commissions. I have been fortunate because I did not have to depend on selling art for a living. I retired in 1997 and have been volunteering in some capacity ever since.”

Yet she is not blind that many artists of color find it a challenge to reach wider audiences and secure their place at the larger community table, particularly in the visual arts world. “I think that one organization needs to take control. At the present every organization's president has their own agenda and is not looking out for other persons or organizations, and small organizations normally do not have a specific place, computer equipment, or expertise for such large undertaking.” 

One of the values of being an Elder is that you have been a witness to the changes in the arts and cultural landscape that surrounds you. Allen can recount a time when there was much effort in the name of unity and inclusion. “Years ago, Louisville Visual Art had a large (non-digital) database of artists and arts organizations. The Kentucky Arts Council funded two directories of African American artists in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Two conferences were held, one in Lexington, and one in Louisville. They conducted free workshops for the community at the Chestnut Street YMCA, West End branch of the YWCA, as well as other venues. Bale McKnight, who conducted drum making at the YMCA, created a drum that was in Chickasaw Park, which was the first public art project in the West End. KCAAA was the fiscal agent for Educations Arts and the dance group founded by Harlina Churn.” You see, Elders know the history.

So how does Louisville recapture that level of motivation again? What actions need to be taken today to build a functional community network? Allen feels, “Everyone is waiting for someone else to do the hard work,” but individuals who want to be leaders need to focus on developing their game in crucial ways; Elders also get to give advice:

Organizational and leadership skills are a must. 

You have to show up and be willing to assume responsibilities. 

You must not be afraid to fail. You learn from your mistakes.

You, as a leader, must be presentable and responsible for your actions at all times. Remember the golden rule - Do unto others as you want others to do to you.

You must be punctual.

Respect the time of others. Meetings should have an agenda and should not exceed two hours.

So how does this near-iconic status affect Elmer Lucille Allen’s work as an artist? Or does it? “My work is not impacted by my place in history,” states Allen. ”The work that I have done since 1981 speaks for itself. I have been the volunteer curator/director of Wayside Christian Mission's Wayside Expressions Gallery since 2005.  My goal is to showcase artists, some of which have never exhibited. My second goal has been to have an African American artist or artists for February. I have done the scheduling, press releases, fliers, finding new artists, etc., from my home. I think my presence in the art world has afforded me the opportunity to be asked to serve as judge for the 2016 Fund for Arts, as a panelist for Metro arts grants, etc.”

“I think that over the years, the community sees who is where and what you are doing. Action speaks louder then words.”

You can see Elmer Lucille Allen’s work as a part of the Louisville Visual Art exhibit Tessile Ora, at Metro Hall, now through May 26, 2017. 

Recognitions/Awards:  Louisville Defender – Lifetime Community Service Recognition Award (2016) Outstanding Community Leader by Metro Council (2016)  Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft’s First Art and Advocacy Award – Bourbon Bash (2015)  Parkland Rising Up Project (2015)  Community Spirit Award given by the University of Louisville College of Arts and Science and the Yearlings Club (2015)  Spalding University Caritas Medal (2011) - the highest honor awarded to an alumnus 

This Feature article was written by Keith Waits. In addition to his work at the LVA, Keith is also the Managing Editor of a website, www.Arts-Louisville.com, which covers local visual arts, theatre, and music in Louisville.

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