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Kevin Cole
Kevin Cole (born 1960) is an African-American artist and educator. He has created more than 45 public art works including a 55-foot long installation for the Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Atlanta International Airport, and the Coca-Cola Centennial Olympic Mural for the 1996 Summer Olympics, 1996 Olympic games. Biography Kevin Cole was born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, on January 19, 1960. At the age of 8, he visited the Arkansas Arts Center (now the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts) for the first time with his mother and was inspired to create art. As an adolescent, he struggled with a speech impediment and used art as therapy. It was this disorder that led him to seek a career in art education. After earning graduate degrees in art and art education, he began his teaching career in College Park, Georgia in 1985 as an art teacher in Camp Creek Middle School. He later became an adjunct professor in the School of Art and Design at Georgia State University where he re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport
Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport , also known as Atlanta Hartsfield–Jackson International Airport, Atlanta Airport, Hartsfield, Hartsfield–Jackson and, formerly, as the Atlanta Municipal Airport, is the primary international airport serving Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The airport is located south of the Downtown Atlanta district. It is named after former Atlanta mayors William B. Hartsfield and Maynard Jackson. ATL covers of land and has five parallel runways. effective December 30, 2021. Hartsfield-Jackson has been the world's busiest airport by passenger traffic since 1998, except when it briefly lost its title in 2020 due to the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States but regained it in 2021. Hartsfield–Jackson is the primary hub of Delta Air Lines. With just over 1,000 flights a day to 225 domestic and international destinations, the Delta hub is the world's largest airline hub and is considered the first mega-hub in America. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 Summer Olympics
The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. These were the fourth Summer Olympic Games, Summer Olympics to be hosted by the United States, and marked the centennial of the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, the inaugural edition of the modern Olympic Games. These were also the first Summer Olympics since 1924 to be held in a different year than the Winter Olympic Games, Winter Olympics, as part of a new International Olympic Committee, IOC practice implemented in 1994 to hold the Summer and Winter Games in alternating, even-numbered years. The 1996 Games were the first of the two consecutive Summer Olympics to be held in a predominantly English-speaking world, English-speaking country preceding the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. These were also the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smokie Norful
Rev. W.R. "Smokie" Norful, Jr. is an American gospel Gospel originally meant the Christian message (" the gospel"), but in the 2nd century it came to be used also for the books in which the message was set out. In this sense a gospel can be defined as a loose-knit, episodic narrative of the words a ... singer and pianist, best known for his 2002 album, '' I Need You Now'' and his 2004 release, ''Nothing Without You,'' which won a Grammy at the 47th Annual Grammy Awards for Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album in 2004.http://www.grammy.com/GRAMMY_Awards/Winners/Results.aspx?title=&winner=&year=2005&genreID=0&hp=1 , Grammy Winners Search Norful received his second Grammy in 2015 at the 57th Annual Grammy awards for his song "No Greater Love", ten years after winning his first. Discography Albums *'' I Need You Now'' (Chordant Music Group, 2002) *'' I Need You Now: Limited Edition'' (EMI, 2003) (4 new tracks plus 4 new versions) *'' Nothing Without You'' (EMI Gospel, 2004) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Touré (journalist)
Touré (born Touré Neblett; March 20, 1971) is an American writer, music journalist, cultural critic, podcaster, and television personality. He was a co-host of the TV show '' The Cycle'' on MSNBC. He was also a contributor to MSNBC's ''The Dylan Ratigan Show'', and the host of Fuse's ''Hiphop Shop'' and ''On the Record''. He serves on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominating Committee. He taught a course on the history of hip hop at the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, part of the Tisch School of the Arts in New York. Touré is the author of several books, including ''The Portable Promised Land'' (2003), ''Soul City'' (2005), ''Who's Afraid of Post-Blackness? What It Means To Be Black Now'' (2011) and ''I Would Die 4 U: Why Prince Became an Icon'' (2013). He is also a frequent contributor at The Daily Beast. Early life Touré was born Touré Neblett in Boston on March 20, 1971. Lewis, Miles Marshall (August 25, 2011)"It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Black" ''Hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AfriCOBRA
AfriCOBRA (the African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists) is an African-American artists' collective formed in Chicago in 1968. The group was founded by Jeff Donaldson, Wadsworth Jarrell, Jae Jarrell, Barbara Jones-Hogu, Nelson Stevens and Gerald Williams. OBAC and the ''Wall of Respect'' AfriCOBRA's founding members were first associated with the Organization of Black American Culture (OBAC), established in 1967. This group, formed in Chicago to encourage education and performance amongst the city's African American population, was responsible for the famous '' Wall of Respect.'' The wall consisted of a series of portraits dedicated to individuals considered heroes and heroines of African American history. The ''Wall of Respect'' was ultimately destroyed in a fire in 1971. However, it served as an inspiration for further artistic representation of the African American experience. Jeff Donaldson and Wadsworth Jarrell, two OBAC artists who had contributed to the ''Wall of Resp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1960 Births
Year 196 ( CXCVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dexter and Messalla (or, less frequently, year 949 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 196 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus attempts to assassinate Clodius Albinus but fails, causing Albinus to retaliate militarily. * Emperor Septimius Severus captures and sacks Byzantium; the city is rebuilt and regains its previous prosperity. * In order to assure the support of the Roman legion in Germany on his march to Rome, Clodius Albinus is declared Augustus by his army while crossing Gaul. * Hadrian's wall in Britain is partially destroyed. China * First year of the '' Jian'an era of the Chinese Han Dynasty. * Emperor Xian o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artists From Arkansas
An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, the term is also often used in the entertainment business, especially in a business context, for musicians and other performers (although less often for actors). "Artiste" (French for artist) is a variant used in English in this context, but this use has become rare. Use of the term "artist" to describe writers is valid, but less common, and mostly restricted to contexts like used in criticism. Dictionary definitions The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' defines the older broad meanings of the term "artist": * A learned person or Master of Arts. * One who pursues a practical science, traditionally medicine, astrology, alchemy, chemistry. * A follower of a pursuit in which skill comes by study or practice. * A follower of a manual art, such as a m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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