Once Upon A Time In Williamsburg
Val Wilmer, The Wire, June 2020
In the early 1970s a number of progressive artists, musicians and activists came together to build a bridgehead for the black avant garde in a rundown New York borough. Writer and photographer Val Wilmer remembers her encounters with Rashied Ali, Marzette Watts, Carol and Roger Blank, Art Lewis and others
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