Kenya Allmond (me)

I was fortunate to attend “Steppin’ Out of the Negro Caravan” at Howard University’s Ira Aldridge Theater.  A dramatization of the landmark anthology of African American literature, The Negro Caravan, edited by Howard University professors Sterling A. Brown and Arthur P. Davis and Morgan State University professor Ulysses G. Lee.  Howard University drama students were [...]

The Country Shook and the Children Hollered Outstanding young artists revisit and rework the American conversation as posed by Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Marvin Gaye and more, seizing their own distinctly American tradition.

Students and representatives of Critical Exposure were on hand to talk about their photography exhibit at the Atlas. The organization seeks to empower youth through photography.  On this larger view of the image featured above you can read what the student wrote.  Critical Exposure has worked w/ more than 800 students in DC, Baltimore, New [...]

Music, dancers, aerialists, theatre and happy hour: what more could you ask for?  Here are my picks for the upcoming weekend: Thursday 3/1 6:00 Art at the INTERSECTION: Critical Exposure 7:00 Cafe Concert: Marc Avon Evans 7:30 Duke Ellington School of the Arts: The Country Shook and the Children Hollered 8:00 B-Fly Entertainment: Liner Notes [...]

INTERSECTIONS: A New America Arts Festival celebrates art as an inspiration for conversation and connection among artists and audience of all ages, races, cultures and art forms.  INTERSECTIONS 2010 and attracted over 6000 patrons to the Atlas Performing Arts Center, topped by 9000 at INTERSECTIONS 2011.  The festival returns in February 2012 for twelve days [...]