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Silhouette: Affordable Care

September 13, 2026

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Designing Dynamism: Reclaiming the Living Language of Kuba Textiles

A t the Mint Museum Randolph in Charlotte, “Designing Dynamism: Kuba Textiles from the Democratic Republic of Congo, The Wesley Mancini Collection” unfolds with a quiet confidence that does not demand attention all at once, but instead gently draws you in, asking only that you slow your pace and allow the experience to reveal itself over time. From the moment you step into the gallery, there is a noticeable shift in atmosphere, as though you have crossed into a space where the rules of distance and display have been softened. Instead of the familiar starkness of white walls, you are met with handcrafted wooden structures that rise thoughtfully throughout the room, framing each textile with care and intention. These structures do more than hold the work in place. There is something deeply inviting about the way the space is arranged, as if you have entered a room within a welcoming Congolese home, where the walls carry memory and design exists not as something separate, but as som...

Memory, Protest, and Joy: The Sounds from Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um

I t has been a few weeks since I returned home from Little Rock. The steady flow of raindrops pounds the windows surrounding my family room. Several albums from my dad’s record collection lay stacked on a wooden entertainment console. My eyes curiously focus on the album topping the stack with its cover exhibiting colorful abstract art. I lift and bring the album cover closer to view and discover the artist who painted the unique abstract art is S. Neil Fujita . MINGUS AH UM/CHARLES MINGUS – the block letters spread across the top of the album cover. Neatly cropped under these letters are what I presume song titles – BETTER GIT IN YOUR SOUL / GOODBYE PORK PIE HAT / BOOGIE STOP SHUFFLE…PUSSY CAT DUES / JELLY ROLL. The song titles rotate from orange to purple font colors. “These are interesting titles,” the thought crosses my mind as I pull the vinyl record out the plastic sleeve. I step close to my vintage Dual turntable that my dad gave to me many years ago and place the r...

With These Hands: Memory, Art, and the Labor That Built a Campus

O n a quiet stretch of green just off Main Street, where town and campus meet, two monumental hands rise from the earth – open, cupped, and facing one another. They do not grasp or point. Instead, they hold space. Nearby, just beyond them, sit one modest brick building from the 1830s that is small, intimate, and heavy with presence. Together, the sculpture With These Hands and the historic Oak Row building form one of the most significant cultural interventions in Davidson College’s history – a living memorial to the enslaved and exploited labor that built and sustained the institution. This is not a monument designed to be passed at a distance. It is meant to be entered, touched, and felt. The project’s roots stretch back to 2017, when Davidson College under then president Carol Quillen, a historian by training, launched a Commission on Race and Slavery. The commission was charged with conducting a deep examination of the college’s historical ties to enslavement, racial exploit...

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