Tag: civil rights

Parks art exhibit offers a voice to unheard artists

Trojan Living

Olivia Nobles Staff Writer Troy University’s Rosa Parks Museum in Montgomery will be partnering with Valiant Cross Academy for a temporary art exhibit featuring all African American artists beginning on Jan. 17. The exhibit, “Down South: From the Souls of African American Artists of Alabama,” features work from more than 30 artists, all of whose names can be found on the Troy University Rosa Parks Museum Facebook page under the “Down South” event description.  Madeline Burkhardt, the Rosa Parks Museum adult education coordinator, emphasized the importance of outsider art as…

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SPLC club coming out to campus

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Tu To Staff Writer The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is bringing a collegiate club to Troy’s campus next fall. On its webpage, SPLC said the center is dedicated to fighting hate and bigotry and to seeking justice for the most vulnerable members of society. “Using litigation, education and other forms of advocacy, the SPLC works toward the day when the ideals of equal justice and equal opportunity will be a reality,” the website reads. Kourtney Frye, a junior history major from Monroeville and one of the first students to…

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