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From KQED in San Francisco, this is Forum.

I'm Mina Kim. Black History writes award-winning artist artist and graphic designer George McCallman, tends to mean the ten people who are lauded every Black History month of every Black History year. McAllman upends that constricted notion in his most recent book, Illustrated Black History, a tribute to more than 140 pioneering and sometimes unseen black artists,

activists, and thinkers who have, quote, sacrificed their lives and livelihoods or forfeited

their homes and sanctuaries in the course of defining American history.

We'll talk to McCallman about those he chose to profile, paint, and celebrate next on Forum.

Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim. I'm here today with artist and author George McCallman, who has just completed

an illustrated Black History, a beautiful book featuring more than 140 Black American luminaries

that he described, Andrew, painted, or inked. They range from Black Lives Matter activists to

Ben Carson. They were selected based on whom McCallman felt connected

to, moved or changed by in some way, making illustrated black history deeply personal,

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