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TEN IN SEARCH OF A NATION

NEW YORK, June 21--

Have you seen/been there?

Studio Museum.
2033 Fifth Avenue.
Harlem...New York.

They sho nuff got something for you--

African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists. 
Come from South Side, Chicago.
Moving toward Our Nation.

AFRICOBRA...

getting into sound/color
tone/texture
family/nation/us.

...they even writin on they pictures...like 
"WE BETTER THAN THOSE MF AND THEY KNOW IT"...like
"WE WILL BUILD HERE ARE NOBODY WILL"...like
"BY HONORING MALCOLM WE HONOR THE BEST IN OURSELVES,"  OO-oo-oo!

One of Gerald Williams" pieces declares, "I am Somebody," while Barbara Jones got a sister coolin it on the beach--in the background--miss anne, rubbing tracks in her body with sun-tan-low-tion...Sister say, "I am BETTER!" Yeah.

And Nelson Stevens (he a Taurus brother from Brooklyn) got a piece called "A Rite Soulful Brother" in bright/survive/stay alive acrylics. Mosaic. "Brother" come poppin out at you like he a galaxy in the nightsky...pah.pah/pah/POW! Brother Stevens did another one he call "JIHAD"...