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Ulysses S. Grant our 18th President
Quotes by President Ulysses S. Grant “Enfrancishment and equal rights should accompany emancipation”. “Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace”. “The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no…
American General, American president, annexation of Haiti, Bicentennial, Civil Rights of 1866, Civil War General, Commander of the Union Army, Frederick Douglass, Freedmen’s Bureau, Grant Monument Association, Grant’s presidency, Grant’s Tomb, Ku Klux Klan, National Park Service, Reconstruction President, Ulysses S. Grant, West Point graduate -
COMMUNITY SCREENING OF ELLIS DIRECTED BY JR
The Executive Director of the West Harlem Art Fund in collaboration with WBAI FM Radio will host a community screening of the short film Ellis directed by the artist JR and starring Robert DeNiro on Friday, November 13th in Brooklyn. The evening will begin with the permanent launch of the show, “State of the Arts” hosted by…
ANDRÉ CHEMETOFF, art in public spaces, CATHERINE AND NIKLAS ZENNSTRÖM, Ellis, Ellis Island, EMERSON COLLECTIVE, ERIC ROTH, GUILLAUME LEFRANÇOIS, JANE ROSENTHAL, JR, MARC AZOULAY, MAXIME POZZI-GARCIA, National Park Service, New York City, NILS FRAHM, NYC art, NYC films, public art, Robert DeNiro, Savona Bailey-McClain, SOL GUY, State of the Arts, The Commons, WBAI radio, WOODKID -
Digital Collaborations with Patrick Singh – Archives
The West Harlem Art Fund has worked with French artist Patrick Singh on several occasions. A self-taught painter, Singh has travelled the world to capturing haunting images of native people. Born to an Indian father and a French mother, Patrick was predestined to multicultural encounters. He spent his childhood traveling between…

