Mel Hopkins

I was on vacation for a week and just like when I left the airlines after 8 years, when I returned I found myself returning to AALBC.com-munity to find my balance. 

Smithsonian National Museum African American Heritage and Culture

"Ethiopia"

W.E.B. Du Bois and James Weldon Johnson commissioned Fuller to create Ethiopia for the Negro Exhibit in the America's Making Exposition in 1921.  An image of the sculpture graced the cover of the exhibit's publication describing it as "A Symbolic Statue of the Emancipation of the Negro Race" Fuller's work links the cultural achievements of ancient Egypt as well as the Ethiopian resistance to colonial rule to a narrative of African American struggle and achievement.