Last fall, we welcomed Dodai Stewart @dodai resident reporter for The New York Times to the AFRO Archives where she reunited with the records of Ollie Stewart - her great uncle and famed World War II reporter for the AFRO American Newspaper.
His 1953 classic 'Paris, Here I Come' served as a traveler's guide for African Americans who were visiting France during the height of segregation in the United States. Did you know that Josephine Baker, Langston Hughes, and James Baldwin also traveled to Paris in search of opportunity and reprieve?
Dodai is continuing in her uncle Ollie's footsteps with her upcoming book entitled 'Paris Here I Am.' We're thrilled that the AFRO Archives have been of use to her project and contribute to her family's long journalistic history.
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✨NEW by me: another installment in the "affording new york" series with the astonishing VISIONARY talent @pleaselookatmyari 🤩💫 photos by @vincentalban1
greetings from book leave! 🌸 if i owe you a text, a phone call, an email, a drink or $$$ i apologize and appreciate your patience as i spiral like a cherry blossom petal falling to the ground 💘 i'm so lucky to be employed by an institution that has allowed me to be on an (unpaid) break from my day job so i can WRITE A BOOK which as it turns out is A LOT OF WORK 🤯 meanwhile SIMULTANEOUSLY I realized if I didn't have more WALLPAPER I would DIE? 🙃 but I'm so in love with my Uncle Ollie's story and I think you will be too! ✈️🐀🌷 luckily Q2 is my fave time of year and WE GOT THIS 💪🏽 WE KEEP GOING 😤 trying to get that energy level to be like CINDER BLOCK AEROBICS 🥵 LET'S GO 🙌🏽
