Upperman African American Cultural Center @ UNC-Wilmington. Affectionately known as The Upp.
Wilmington, NC
Joined July 2010
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Creating a new neighborhood on the peninsula that will surely flood instead of fixing the issues that are already plaguing neighborhoods is crazy but i don’t expect anything less from Charleston
Spending time at a Red Velvet Pancake Breakfast with Living Black History Montford Point Marine Sgt. Hooper
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Never thought I’d be on something that Dr Harris is on and now i wanna throw up bc people really take me serious lmao
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Black and brown employees often labor in art spaces as docents, safeguarding artworks while providing guidance and answering the questions of museum patrons. They are central to the functioning of museums, but their presences are overlooked and their contributions to our experience in museums are rendered invisible. Artist Deni Wohlgemuth-Ponty, however, made this black docent the subject of his painting "ArtGuard2000." He is flanked by seemingly canonical artworks filled with white figuration. Ponty suggests that this coy figure also deserves our contemplation and scholarly attention.
Another notable example of acknowledging the significance of docents is evident in the work of artist Fred Wilson, who has always been conscious of the labor performed by black and brown museum employees. He incorporated them into his groundbreaking 1992 exhibtion "Mining the Museum" at the former Maryland Historical Society and in "Guarded Views"—his contribution to the 1994 "Black Male" exhibtion at the @whitneymuseum.
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I don’t know if anyone involved in this was Gullah Geechee, but St. Augustine is at the Southern most site in the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor.
In 1964, a white hotel manager named James Brock poured acid into a whites-only pool at the Monson Motor Lodge after Black activists jumped into the water during a "swim-in" protest.
—On June 18, 1964, motel manager James Brock poured muriatic acid into the swimming pool at the Monson Motor Lodge in St. Augustine, Florida, in an attempt to force out black swimmers who were protesting the hotel's whites-only policy. The incident was part of the St. Augustine Movement, a civil rights campaign that used nonviolent protests to challenge segregation in the city.
Brock's actions were met with outrage from the civil rights community, and they helped to galvanize support for the St. Augustine Movement. The incident also led to a national debate about racism and segregation.
The Monson Motor Lodge is no longer in operation, but the site of the pool where Brock poured the acid is now a memorial to the St. Augustine Movement. The memorial includes a plaque that tells the story of the incident and its significance.
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