The first drawing in Ajuan Mance’s sketchbook-journal-art-project series, 1001 Black Men, is the torso of a shirtless, African-American man — inspired by the men who play basketball on the corner of ...
MOUNT VERNON -- In 1946, two men from opposite shores of the Pacific Ocean encountered each other from opposite sides of prison bars. More than half a century later, a gift from one to the other is ...
One East Bay artist recently completed a six-year creative journey during which she tried to answer that question. Ajuan Mance, a professor of literature at Mills College in Oakland, began that ...