African American Portrait Gallery | Art Rocks!

Alexandria, Louisiana artist and retired educator, Morris Taft Thomas, has joined forces with area artists and the Rapides Parish Library to introduce young people to giants in Central Louisiana’s African American history. At Martin Luther King, Jr. Branch Library, they’ve assembled a portrait gallery that showcases the achievements of some of the city’s most accomplished native sons and daughters. PLUS: Glass sculpture honoring outstanding literary achievement by Cleveland, Ohio’s Earl James, and the exhibition, Distinctly Paramount: Fashion and Costume from the Paramount Pictures Archive.

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