Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Guest speaker to celebrate Black History month




Local lens legend Wiley Price will be front and center this weekend at the Christ Church Cathedral, which will feature the "As If We Weren't There" exhibition.
Price will be at the opening of the exhibit at 7 p.m. Friday. Then on Sunday, he will lead a 9 a.m. presentation and discussion about race relations and then preach at the 10 a.m. service.
Price, who recently was inducted into the Missouri Photojournalism Hall of Fame, is with the St. Louis American and has been recording images in STL history for more than 30 years.
"Like no one else, Wiley Price has told the story of St. Louis in all our diversity through his photos," said Mike Kinman, dean of Christ Church Cathedral.
The exhibit includes about 300 photographs of blacks taken between the Emancipation Proclamation and the civil rights movement. It is a production of Hands On Black History Museum, curated by Deborah Nelson Linck.

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