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New leader of New York’s iconic Abyssinian Baptist Church wants to keep ‘high culture’ alive
“Abyssinian, it will always be a traditional ... “When I look at the online numbers and see that we have each week 5,000 or so people across the world — while there's [the] contemporary ...
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The Abyssinian Baptist Church
A group of Ethiopian merchants and free African-Americans established the first Abyssinian Baptist Church on Worth Street in 1808 after refusing to accept segregated services in downtown’s First ...
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January acquisitions round-up: Lavinia Fontana’s Portrait of Antonietta Gonzales goes to Tokyo museum
Drawing on Ethiopian folklore, it imagines the journey of a queen from the Abyssinian Empire carried by her people in slow-motion monochrome. Yatreda’s creative director, Kiya Tadele ...