{"id":131561,"date":"2026-02-12T18:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T18:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/131561\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T18:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T18:49:08","slug":"brooklyn-public-library-opens-printing-black-america-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/131561\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn Public Library opens \u2018Printing Black America\u2019 exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GRAND ARMY PLAZA \u2014 Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) illuminates Black history with \u201cPrinting Black America,\u201d an exhibition portraying Black life in the 21st century based on the data visualizations of W.E.B. Du Bois.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition runs from Feb. 17 to May 31. Urbanist Shraddha Ramani and visual artist William Villalongo reinterpret and respond to Du Bois\u2019 \u201cdata portraits\u201d from 1900. Du Bois, who lived in Brooklyn from 1951 to 1961, celebrated Black culture, history and life in his work, and \u201cPrinting Black America\u201d carries this sentiment into the future by illuminating Black resistance, joy and determination.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As part of the exhibition, BPL commissioned essays by Professor Corey D.B. Walker, Public Historian Dominique Jean-Louis, Artist Stephanie Dinkins and Karole Dill Barkley. The public is invited to attend an  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bklynlibrary.org\/exhibitions\/printing-black-america-du\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">opening celebration<\/a> on Monday, Feb. 23, at 6:30 p.m. at BPL\u2019s Central Branch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2730\u2730\u2730<\/p>\n<p> <a style=\"font-size: inherit; background-color: #fefefe;\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/whats-news-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wnb-read-more aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/read-more-wnb-shad-1024x341.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GRAND ARMY PLAZA \u2014 Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) illuminates Black history with \u201cPrinting Black America,\u201d an exhibition portraying&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[2571,2572,3302,98,100,99,16073,9,24,63],"class_list":{"0":"post-131561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-arts-and-entertainment","9":"tag-bklyn-live","10":"tag-breaking","11":"tag-brooklyn","12":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","13":"tag-brooklyn-news","14":"tag-brooklyn-public-library-bpl","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-nyc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}