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Dawoud Bey: Birmingham, Alabama, 1963: Dawoud Bey/Black Star

Dawoud Bey: Birmingham, Alabama, 1963: Dawoud Bey/Black Star

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The exhibition Birmingham, Alabama, 1963: Dawoud Bey/Black Star responds to the September 15, 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama—an event that resulted in six deaths of black children by white supremacists. Organized by Dr. Gaëlle Morel, exhibitions curator at the Ryerson Image Centre in Toronto, the exhibition pairs Dawoud Bey’s (American, b. 1953) The Birmingham…
Pogus Caesar: From Jamaica Row, Rebirth of the Bullring

Pogus Caesar: From Jamaica Row, Rebirth of the Bullring

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These powerful images have been selected from over 500 in the OOM Gallery Archive to illustrate the demolition of the past and a premonition of the future for the City of Birmingham. Jamaica Row is the pedestrian route situated between the Open Market and St Martin’s Market. Its name derives from a pub called the Black Boy in reference to…