Eric Velasquez: How a painting of Juan de Pareja showed me that I could be an artist
Award-winning author and illustrator Eric Velasquez talks about the power of seeing a painting of Juan de Pareja in the Metropolitan Museum of Art as a child -- an experience that opened up the possibility of being an artist in his mind and taught him
Eric Velasquez: Bringing Arturo Schomburg's legacy to life
Award-winning author and illustrator Eric Velasquez talks about his rese
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As a mail carrier, Victor Hugo Green traveled across New Jersey every day. But with Jim Crow laws enforcing segregation since the late 1800s, traveling as a Black person in the US could be stressful, even dangerous.