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CLOTHING POVERTY

Late last month, H & M announced it had over $4 billion in unsold inventory.

CAAM Reads—the monthly book club at the California African American Museum—will feature a discussion of Andrew BrooksCLOTHING POVERTY: THE HIDDEN WORLD OF FAST FASHION AND SECOND-HAND CLOTHES (2015), moderated by CAAM Research Librarian, Denise L. McIver.

 

CLOTHING POVERTY, Sunday, July 8, at 3 pm.

CALIFORNIA AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM, 600 State Drive, Exposition Park, Los Angeles.

caamuseum.org/clothing-poverty

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THE ERIC DOLPHY STORY

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Join UCLA professor of ethnomusicology James Newton and curator Vida L. Brown for “a night of storytelling and recorded music in celebration of the life and musical contributions” of the late jazz musician Eric Dolphy.

Newton “will share artifacts and stories about the musician and his Leimert Park home, which burned during the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising.”*

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JAMES NEWTON AND VIDA L. BROWN ON THE ERIC DOLPHY STORY, Thursday, June 14, at 7 pm.

CALIFORNIA AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM, 600 State Drive, Exposition Park, Los Angeles.

caamuseum.org/the-eric-dolphy-story

Free tickets to the event: eventbrite.com/james-newton-vida-l-brown

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