Sylvester Russell
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title:
Sylvester Russell
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Sylvester Russell was a performer who became a newspaper columnist. He was the "first Black arts critic to gain national recognition in the U.S.," in his turn-of-the-century column in the Indianapolis Freeman. In a 30-year career that spanned three cities: his early days in Indianapolis, time at the Chicago Defender and, finally, New York City where he founded and published a newspaper called the Star, and famously developed a system of ranking Black performance qualitatively from "low comedy/mi
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American arts critic (1860s—1930)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvester_Russell
date created:
2021-06-29T14:41:37Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T20:26:12Z
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