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Painting by Norman Parish, Jr. entitled the "Naming Ceremony," which depicts a naming ceremony held at Abena Joan Brown's South Side apartment.

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Abena Joan Brown, Black Theater Pioneer, Touched Everyone She Knew

(Opinion) When my dad died, my family scrabbled to find a place to hold his memorial in Chicago. He was an artist reared on the South Side but spent the last two decades of his life operating a gallery in Washington, D.C.