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New black culture comes into focus at San Francisco expo
San Francisco hosted a four day expo drawing over 100000 attendees to showcase the new black culture across film, theatre, poetry and visual art. Organizers highlighted economic promise for black artists with a film festival featuring Melvin Van Peebles and Gordon Parks and a broad range of works by Harlem Watts Pittsburgh and Birmingham artists. Ray Charles headlined daily along with a diverse program emphasizing the arts over politics or music.
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Earl Caldwell
N.Y. Times News Service
San Francisco
Woodstock
Selma Burke
Pittsburgh
H. Rap Brown
New York
Melvin van Peebles
Gordon Parks
Parks
van Peebles
Burke
Romare Bearden
Emory Douglas
Ray Charles
Chicago
Ray Taliaferro
San