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New York (AFP) - Manhattan's Tenement Museum already preserves the history of some immigrants who shaped New York City -- from destitute Irish fleeing the great famine to Jewish survivors of the Holocaust -- now it is also making room for the lives of African-American migrants. Beginning next week, visitors to the museum can tour a two-room apartment that is a recreation of one once inhabited by Joseph and Rachel Moore, a Black couple who lived in the area during the US Civil War in the late 19th century. The Moores squeezed into the unit along with three other boarders. There is no running w...
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Paris (AFP) - Kehinde Wiley made his name painting ordinary African-Americans in classical European style, but after a high-profile commission from Barack Obama he is focusing on a different form of black power with a new show looking at African leaders. Wiley's portraits borrow the codes of Old Master paintings usually associated with kings and religious saints, often setting his subjects against wildly colourful and flowery backgrounds. He gained major renown after being chosen for the official painting of Obama for the National Portrait Gallery in Washington in 2018, with the former presi...
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New York (AFP) - Twenty-two years after the September 11 jihadist attacks on the United States, the remains of two people who died in the collapse of the World Trade Center have been identified through DNA analysis, the authorities said ahead of the latest commemoration of the 2001 disaster. The identities of the two, a man and a woman, are being withheld at the request of their families. They bring to 1,649 the number of victims whose remains have been identified, of the total 2,753 who died when an Al-Qaeda commando crashed two hijacked civilian airliners into New York's twin towers, the ci...
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De Haan (Belgium) (AFP) - Sitting alone on a bench, legs crossed, Albert Einstein enjoys the tranquillity of a public park in the Belgian coastal resort of De Haan. His bronze statue attracts excited tourists to the town where the famous 1921 Nobel physics laureate sojourned 90 years ago, despite a Nazi secret society putting a price to his head. He never returned to Europe again. It is a relatively unknown episode in the life of the American physicist of German Jewish origin, who was born in 1879 and died in 1955. When Adolf Hitler came to power in early 1933, Einstein, a native of the south...
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New York (AFP) - A painting by Marc Chagall, stolen by Nazis in occupied Poland and returned last year to the owner's family who quickly auctioned it off, is on display through 2023 at the Jewish Museum in New York. The oil on canvas, which the Russian-born Chagall painted of his father in 1911 after moving to Paris, was sold last November for $7.4 million at the Phillips auction house, capping a tumultuous history. Purchased in 1928 by Polish-Jewish violin maker David Cender, "The Father" was left behind when his family was forced to move to the Lodz ghetto. Deported to Auschwitz, where his w...
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New York (AFP) - New York officials and members of the city's Jewish community called Friday for the removal of plaques bearing the name of French Nazi collaborators from Manhattan's celebrated Broadway street. The granite plaques for Vichy leaders Philippe Petain and Pierre Laval were embedded in the "Canyon of Heroes" sidewalk, New York's answer to Hollywood's "Walk of Fame," in 2004. The plaques honor participants of ticker-tape parades, which ex-general Petain and former leader Laval took part in in 1931. Petain was invited to the parade because of his status then as the hero who led the F...
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New York (AFP) - A painting by Marc Chagall, which was among 15 works stolen by Nazis and eventually returned by France to the heirs of the affected families, sold for $7.4 million at auction in New York Tuesday. The sale at the Phillips auction house was part of the fall auction season, which sees major industry players sell hundreds of works of art for several billion dollars in a few days in the upscale neighborhoods of Manhattan. On Tuesday, Phillips sold 46 works for nearly $139 million. The most expensive, a monumental painting by Cy Twombly, "Untitled" (2005), which once belonged to t...
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Washington (AFP) - There's the firing squad, the electric chair... and now, the gas chamber. Conservative US states, facing difficulties around lethal injections, are looking to the past for alternative ways to carry out executions of their death row inmates. On Tuesday, the Arizona state Supreme Court set June 8 for the execution of Frank Atwood, sentenced to death in 1987 for the murder of an eight-year-old girl. He was given two weeks to choose between lethal injection or being gassed with lethal chemicals. According to his lawyer, prison authorities in the southwestern state are considerin...
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Washington (AFP) - Since his contracting company began removing Confederate statues from Richmond, Virginia -- controversial symbols of the South's slave-holding past -- Devon Henry has got himself a gun that never leaves his side. "Based on all the comments and the vitriol that folks spew over these two years, I just refuse to let my guard down," the African-American business owner told AFP. "On one of the removals, we were driving down the road with the Confederate statue on the trailer and someone tried to run us off the road," said Henry, who is 45. Death threats, racist insults and intim...
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Kensington (United States) (AFP) - Like something from a science fiction novel, with its six golden spires and pristine white walls rising above the surrounding trees, the Washington Mormon Temple has for decades intrigued those barred from entering. Their curiosity will soon be satisfied, however, as for the first time in almost half a century, the temple this month will open its doors to the general public. The building, one of the most mysterious in the US capital, is usually only open to members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, for whom family, chastity and mission work ...
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