Philadelphia Front Page News TV-Radio News In Brief: A dance of creation: Cherry Street Pier exhibit dives into the history of African American culture in the US Forward news by KYW Newsradio frontpagenews1@yahoo.com
PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — For Black History Month, one illustrator is bringing the journey of African American culture to Cherry Street Pier.
Kenneth Thomas, better known as Thomcat23 on Instagram, said the first Africans to come to the United States led a life detached from the cultures they were ripped away from during slavery.
“We had voided a past. And then that past had to be filled with something… And through our song, through our dance, through our work, through our love, through our hate, we created an entire culture and a universe,” Thomas said.
His exhibit, Cosmic Dance, features five illustrations in his unique style to showcase how that new culture came to be. Each piece is paired with a line of poetry that hearkens back to the Transatlantic Passage, the first five lines reading, “In the beginning, there was a rhythm in the darkness.”
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