CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 12/13/2020

Highly anticipated 'AfriCOBRA: Messages to the People' releases this week!

Napoleon Jones-Henderson's 1970 tapestry, "TCB," is reproduced from AfriCOBRA: Messages to the People, edited by Dr. Jeffreen Hayes and hot off the press from Gregory R. Miller & Co. and the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami. One of our must-have Holiday Gift Books for Art Lovers, 2020, this is an essential publication on the radical collective whose name stands for "African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists"—founded by Jeff Donaldson, Jae Jarrell, Wadsworth Jarrell, Barbara Jones-Hogu and Gerald Williams in Chicago, 1968, and still active today. "It’s NATION TIME and we are searching," Donaldson is quoted. "Our guidelines are our people—the whole family of African people, the African family tree. … Our people are our standard for excellence. We strive for images inspired by African people. … Art for the people and not for critics whose peopleness is questionable."