The Kneeling Man

Museum launches Book & Author Series with an MLK spy’s daughter

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This kneeling man was a member of the Invaders, an activist group that was in talks with King in the days leading up to the murder.

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  • This kneeling man was a member of the Invaders, an activist group that was in talks with King in the days leading up to the murder.
  • The hybrid Book & Author Series event begins at 6:00 pm Central and is free and open for registration.
  • On October 4, the museum brings A Few Days of Trouble by co-authors Christopher Benson and Rev.
  • The museum’s Book & Author Series began in 2015 and has included appearances by historians and nonfiction authors including Ibram X. Kendi, Keisha Blain, Kellie Carter, William Pepper, and Candacy Taylor.

"Ode to January 6th" Painting Unveiled by Elaine Badgley Arnoux

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SAN FRANCISCO, June 8, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On the eve of the January 6th Congressional hearings, famed San Francisco artist Elaine Badgley Arnoux (www.badgleyarts.com), 96, is unveiling a wall-sized indictment of the 45th President, the GOP and the anti-democratic forces that laid siege to the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021 in a failed coup attempt.

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  • "This is the January 6th Guernica," said Arnoux, referring to Picasso's famous painting following the bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.
  • Badgley-Arnoux hopes the painting will become a rallying cry for the mid-term elections and beyond.
  • Elaine Badgley Arnoux was born in Omaha, Nebraska in 1926 and moved to Southern California when she was 11.
  • In 1952 Badgley Arnoux co-founded the San Luis Obispo Art Association.