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‘Black’ is beautiful

By Sarah Portlock
The Brooklyn Paper
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders
Novelist Toni Morrison

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A new photography exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum will enjoy, to say the least, good timing.

Starting on Nov. 21, a series of striking portraits of famous black Americans will go on display at the museum, just three weeks after the borough strongly backed Barack Obama for president.

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“The Black List Project” is a joint effort by portrait photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and writer Elvis Mitchell to explore what it is like to be black in America.

The portrait subjects include tennis champion Serena Williams, comedian (and Bedford-Stuyvesant native) Chris Rock, novelist Toni Morrison (pictured) and Time-Warner giant Richard Parsons.

“The Black List Project” will be on display from Nov. 21 through March 29 at the Brooklyn Museum [200 Eastern Pkwy., at Washington Avenue in Prospect Heights, (718) 638-5000]. Open Wednesday through Friday, 10 am to 5 pm; weekends, 11 am to 6 pm.

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