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for the record: April Album Reviews

by Kay-Alana Turner When you’re happy, free, confused and lonely at the same time, spin:  “Catch 22” Jaye Madison Twin duo Jaye Madison offers reassuring grit on the first single from the band’s upcoming debut record. Produced by Mikal Blue, the mastermind who brought us One Republic and Colbie Caillat, “Catch 22” is deeply rooted

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Local son and artist, Lynn Sweat shows support for TASI’s Raise the Roof effort

In 2021, Lynn Sweat, Lamar alumn and early supporter and collaborator of The Art Studio, Inc. has gifted dozens of works to help Raise the Roof at TASI. Lynn Sweat, fine art painter and commercial artist, is most widely known for his illustrations of the children’s book series, Amelia Bedelia, for over 30 years. Sweat

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New Historiography for Black Excellence: Jamal Cyrus “The End of My Beginning” at the Blaffer Art Museum

by Caitlin Duerler Chávez At the 1900 Paris Exposition, W.E.B. Dubois presented an award-winning display of “data portraits”—colorful depictions of demographics of African Americans post-slavery through the turn of the century. Information such as the large concentration of Black people in southern states and the total value of their financial assets were illustrated in a

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