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  01-28-01 | John Robinson's Art | Buffalo Soldiers | Homophobia | JCAHO @ CVH
Anacostia Hills John Robinson's Art | Back in the early 1990s my stepmother inherited two paintings from her cousin Dorothy. The paintings whose three images you see here were done by a friend and coworker, a man named John Robinson. Mr. Quigley Now I don't know much of the artist. I know that his work has been on exhibit at the Corcoran Gallery [1976] and at Washington DC's City Hall [1986]. He painted ~and began exhibiting~ at a time when established black artists rarely gained Autumn Landscape recognition. Thus it is all the more remarkable that Robinson, who worked as a kitchen helper at St Elizabeth's Hospital, (and not as well connected with loftier realms of cultural commerce) was able to develop a memorable body of work and to then get his work exhibited. Largely self-taught, he worked in media that were less costly but always managed to keep up his efforts. Mr. Robinson's exhibition with the Corcoran, incidentally, was completed with funds coming from the National Endowment for the Arts, as part of an effort to get local, and lesser known artists, the recognition their works warrant and deserve.
other sites of interest about African-American Artists
  • National Center of Afro-American Artists | Roxbury MA: exhibitions, collections, conservation, publications, research and education
  • Ijele | Civil Rights and the African American Artists: Have we Overcome?
  • Artnoir Index listings of Afro-Artists on the Internet
  • Don Mabry's Historic Text Archive | An extensive bibliography [1993] resource of Afro-American Artists and Art
    10th Cavalry-1894     Buffalo Soldiers | The USA Civil War saw over 180,000 black Americans fight to eradicate slavery and help the Northern Armies in their efforts to keep the nation one. Over 30,000 of them died. After that War, black men in the US Military faced an uncertain future until COngress enacted into law the creation of two cavalry units and four infantry units. The mounted regiments became known as Buffalo Soldiers ~so named by the Cheyenne and Comanche warriors against whom they sometimes fought.
    Throughout the rest of the 19th Century these brave and valiant men (and a few women) fought in battles without recognition from American military leadership or the general population of the nation. But their efforts toward helping the nation grow were in more endeavors than war-making. The ranks of soldiers also helped map the western part of the continent, string telegraph lines, build forts and frontier outposts, and protect the crews building the railroads. Buffal Soldier Monument
    In exchange, light skinned Americans of European ancestry heaped upon them the poisons born from living out prejudice and bigotry. A payback that, even today, sometimes extends its reach to keep the less advantaged from being a part of the larger society. Make one wonder when things will ever change.
    On the eve of Black American History Month, Short Notes pays altogether too breif an homage to these brave souls.
    other sites of interest about African-Americans
  • buffalo soldiers.net | Not the easiest site to navigate, but extensive collection of pix and story links
  • On the Western Front
  • African American Military History | Benny McRae's History from Crispus Atticus to Colin Powell
  • Afro-American History | Indomitable people surviving the diaspora; an impressive and extensive site of links
  • National Civil Rights Museum | A Virtual Tour of important sites related to the struggle for attaining civil rights |
  • AFSCME's Memphis: We Remember | the 1968 Sanitation Worker's Strike; Rev. Martin Martin Luther King's "I have been to the mountaintop" speech
  • Harlem Renaissiance | A University of Michigan exhibit currently on display
  • Remember, this list is not meant to be comprehensive; Get down to your local public library and find out more!
    Internalized Homophobia ??? | David Gwynne, webmeister from PlanetSOMA, recently wrote about an unidentified marketer who started e-mailing him with unsolicited promos about a commercially run site that panders to people who happen to be gay. When he responded to the marketer in protest, the marketer tried to foist some lame arguement that Mr. Gwynne was, in some way, homophobic !!!

    JCAHO @ CVH | Well, another three years has gone by and the Joint Commission for Accreditation of Health Care Organizations gave the place where I work flying colors. People were nervous about the event. Some had said they thought we'd only get about a 78 (pretty bad for this place); but we passed with the score of 90. Better luck next time.
    Out fer now!     ~Will Brady
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    "Short Notes" was the title of a column I wrote while working for a newspaper in the Adirondack Mountains some years ago. The format was similar to what you'll find here, except augmented with pictures and maps. The subject matter shall sometimes be personal, at other times comments on events or situations of which I am aware. Comments, suggestions welcomed but not always acted upon.
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