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Anderson Center for the Arts is a 501(c)(3) non-profit whose mission is to expand arts access in underserved areas and to preserve Black narratives by supporting Black creatives

Meet our Final Patriots: The Harlem Hellfighters AKA The 369th Infantry Regiment.Born out of New York's first Black Nati...
05/31/2026

Meet our Final Patriots: The Harlem Hellfighters AKA The 369th Infantry Regiment.

Born out of New York's first Black National Guard regiment in 1916, the men of the 369th Infantry arrived in France ready to fight for a country that still hadn't decided to fight for them. The U.S. Army refused to let them serve alongside white soldiers, so they were assigned to the French Army's 16th Division instead. America's loss became one of the greatest military legacies of World War I.

They entered the trenches on April 8, 1918, right in the teeth of the German Spring Offensive, and they didn't come out for 191 consecutive days. Longer than any other American unit of their size in the entire war. The French called them "Men of Bronze." Their German enemies called them something else entirely: Hellfighters.

By the end of the war, the 369th had suffered more than 1,400 casualties. The French government awarded the Croix de Guerre to 171 individual members of the regiment and to the unit as a whole. They had never lost a man to capture. Never surrendered a foot of ground. Not once in 191 days.

Thirty days. Thirty portraits. Thirty stories of Black men and women who served, sacrificed, and soared for a country still learning how to fully honor them. It has been our privilege to tell every single one.

And the stories continues. Join us for the Portraits of Patriots Film Festival: five weeks of powerful stories honoring Black military legacy. FREE & Open to All.

🔗 Tap the link for dates and showtimes: https://linktr.ee/portraitsofpatriotism

Today's Patriot: Henry O. Flipper.Born enslaved in Georgia in 1856, Henry Ossian Flipper's path to West Point was improb...
05/31/2026

Today's Patriot: Henry O. Flipper.

Born enslaved in Georgia in 1856, Henry Ossian Flipper's path to West Point was improbable by every measure the world had set for him. In 1873, he entered the United States Military Academy at West Point. What followed was four years of deliberate, total social isolation. No friendships. No conversation beyond necessity. Not one cadet extended basic human fellowship to the only Black man among them. Flipper later wrote, "There was no society for me to enjoy. No friends, male or female...so absolute was my isolation."

On June 14, 1877, Henry O. Flipper became the first African American to graduate from West Point, receiving his diploma from General William T. Sherman himself. He was commissioned as a lieutenant and joined the 10th Cavalry (the Buffalo Soldiers) where he proved himself a brilliant engineer, building roads, telegraph lines, and designing a malaria drainage system still in use today, designated a National Historic Landmark in 1977.

In 1881, when commissary funds went missing at Fort Davis, Texas, Flipper, knowing he would be blamed simply for being Black, attempted to quietly repay the discrepancy himself. His commanding officer court-martialed him anyway. The prosecution couldn't prove embezzlement. It didn't matter. He was found guilty of "conduct unbecoming an officer" and dishonorably discharged, while white officers convicted of actual embezzlement faced no such punishment.

Flipper petitioned Congress nine times throughout his life to clear his name. Nine times. He never stopped fighting. It wasn't until 1999, 117 years after his discharge, that President Bill Clinton formally pardoned Henry O. Flipper, reversing the court-martial and restoring the honor that was never rightfully taken in the first place.
America owed him that.

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And the story continues. Join us for the Portraits of Patriots Film Festival: five weeks of powerful stories honoring Black military legacy.

🔗 Tap the link for dates and showtimes: https://linktr.ee/portraitsofpatriotism

Today's Patriot: Lieutenant General Julius W. Becton, Jr.Three wars. Nearly 40 years of service. And a life of public se...
05/30/2026

Today's Patriot: Lieutenant General Julius W. Becton, Jr.
Three wars. Nearly 40 years of service. And a life of public service that didn't stop when the uniform came off.

Born June 29, 1926 in Pennsylvania, Julius Becton joined the Army Air Corps in 1944. When President Truman signed Executive Order 9981 desegregating the Armed Forces in 1948, Becton returned to active duty and never looked back. He would go on to serve in World War II, the Korean War, and Vietnam.

Becton commanded the 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Hood in 1975. In 1978, he made history as the first Black officer to command an Army Corps; taking the helm of the VII Corps in Europe, the Army's largest combat corps during the Cold War, and simultaneously becoming the first Prairie View A&M graduate to attain flag officer rank. He retired from the Army in 1983 after nearly 40 years of service.

Under President Reagan, he served as director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. He returned to Prairie View A&M as its fifth president — the first graduate of the university to do so. He then took on the Washington D.C. public school system as superintendent. In his sixties. Because Julius Becton didn't know how to stop serving. He passed in November of 2023 at 97 years old.

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And the story continues. Join us for the Portraits of Patriots Film Festival: five weeks of powerful stories honoring Black military legacy.

🔗 Tap the link for dates and showtimes: https://linktr.ee/portraitsofpatriotism

05/30/2026

Imagine telling your friend your dream then years later, proving it in front of them.

That's exactly what happened at our Roots to Artistry talk with Jordan Lumpkins (J LÅ«).

Full conversation on YouTube now. Link in bio/comments.

Today's Patriot: Charles Alfred "Chief" Anderson.In 1929, Charles Alfred Anderson earned his pilot's license, becoming t...
05/29/2026

Today's Patriot: Charles Alfred "Chief" Anderson.

In 1929, Charles Alfred Anderson earned his pilot's license, becoming the first African American to do so and planting a flag in the sky that would cast a shadow over the next century of Black aviation. They called him "Chief."

When the Tuskegee program launched and the military needed someone who could train the next generation of Black combat pilots, there was only one name. Anderson became the chief flight instructor at Tuskegee Army Air Base and over the course of the program, he trained more than 1,000 Black military pilots.

But perhaps his most consequential flight never made it into a military record. When First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt visited Tuskegee in 1941 and her Secret Service detail strongly advised against it, she climbed into a plane with Chief Anderson anyway and let him take her up. She landed a believer. Her support helped secure the federal government's backing of the entire Tuskegee program, the same program that produced the most celebrated squadron in American military history.

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And the story continues. Join us for the Portraits of Patriots Film Festival: five weeks of powerful stories honoring Black military legacy.

🔗 Tap the link for dates and showtimes: https://linktr.ee/portraitsofpatriotism

Houston, your verdict matters.👏🏟 or 👎🏟 — YOU be the judge.ApolloHTX is coming to Anderson Center for the Arts and it's a...
05/28/2026

Houston, your verdict matters.
👏🏟 or 👎🏟 — YOU be the judge.

ApolloHTX is coming to Anderson Center for the Arts and it's about to be a who. Clap for your favorite act or boo them off the stage. Either way, the energy in that room is going to be unmatched.

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🗓 Saturday, July 11 | 7PM
📍 13334 Wallisville Rd, Houston, TX
🚗 Just 15 minutes from Downtown

Tickets are ON SALE NOW. Link in bio.
Don't say we didn't warn you. 🔥

Today's Patriot: General Hazel Johnson-Brown.Hazel Johnson-Brown enlisted in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in 1955. Through ...
05/28/2026

Today's Patriot: General Hazel Johnson-Brown.

Hazel Johnson-Brown enlisted in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps in 1955. Through Korea, Vietnam, and the Cold War, Johnson-Brown trained the nurses who headed into some of the most brutal combat zones of the 20th century; pouring her expertise, her standards, and her relentless commitment to excellence into every person under her charge.

While others were fighting on the front lines, she was ensuring those fighters had someone skilled enough to bring them back. Decade after decade she climbed. And in 1979, she reached the summit, becoming the first African American woman in U.S. history to be promoted to Brigadier General. With that promotion came command of the entire Army Nurse Corps, more than 7,000 nurses whose lives and careers were now in the hands of the woman who had spent decades proving she was more than ready.

Healing is not a lesser form of service. Hazel Johnson-Brown made sure the whole Army knew it.

Spotlight 26 of 30. Follow along. 🖀✚

And the story continues. Join us for the Portraits of Patriots Film Festival: five weeks of powerful stories honoring Black military legacy.

🔗 Tap the link for dates and showtimes: https://linktr.ee/portraitsofpatriotism

Meet Patriot #25: Eugene Jacques Bullard.Eugene Jacques Bullard fled racial violence in Georgia to Europe, determined t...
05/27/2026

Meet Patriot #25: Eugene Jacques Bullard.

Eugene Jacques Bullard fled racial violence in Georgia to Europe, determined to find the dignity his own country refused to give him. What he found instead was a calling. He joined the French Foreign Legion, fought for France in World War I, and then took to the skies as a combat pilot, becoming the world's first African American combat pilot in history.

France honored his extraordinary courage with 15 decorations. When the United States finally entered the war and Bullard attempted to serve his birth country, the U.S. Army Air Corps turned him away because of his race. A man already decorated by an entire nation. Rejected at the door.

He lived the rest of his life in France, becoming a beloved figure in Paris. It wasn't until 1994, nearly 30 years after his death, that the United States finally acknowledged what it had denied him in life, posthumously commissioning him as a U.S. Air Force Second Lieutenant.

Spotlight 25 of 30. Follow along. 🖀✚

And the story continues. Join us for the Portraits of Patriots Film Festival: five weeks of powerful stories honoring Black military legacy.

🔗 Tap the link for dates and showtimes: https://linktr.ee/portraitsofpatriotism

Meet Patriot: General Lloyd W. "Fig" Newton.Fighter pilot. Thunderbird. Four-star General.Armed with a B.S. in aviation ...
05/27/2026

Meet Patriot: General Lloyd W. "Fig" Newton.
Fighter pilot. Thunderbird. Four-star General.

Armed with a B.S. in aviation education from Tennessee State University in 1966, Lloyd Newton entered the Air Force with a degree, a dream, and an unshakable sense of purpose. By 1968 he was in the skies over Vietnam as a fighter pilot, combat forging the steel that would define the rest of his career. Then in 1974, he earned one of the most coveted assignments in all of military aviation, becoming a member of the USAF Thunderbirds, America's premier aerial demonstration team. Not just a pilot. A Thunderbird.

From there, Newton's trajectory never wavered. He served as an Air Force congressional liaison with the U.S. House of Representatives, took on multiple leadership roles at the Pentagon, and steadily climbed through the ranks: Brigadier General in 1991, Major General in 1993, Lieutenant General in 1995. In 1997, he reached the pinnacle, promoted to four-star General and appointed commander of the Air Education and Training Command, shaping the future of every airman entering the force until his retirement in 2000.

Spotlight 24 of 30. Follow along. 🖀✚

And the story continues. Join us for the Portraits of Patriots Film Festival: five weeks of powerful stories honoring Black military legacy.

🔗 Tap the link for dates and showtimes: https://linktr.ee/portraitsofpatriotism

Today's Patriot: Admiral Michelle Howard.Michelle Howard graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1982 and spent the nex...
05/26/2026

Today's Patriot: Admiral Michelle Howard.

Michelle Howard graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1982 and spent the next three decades working towards becoming the first Black woman to command a U.S. Navy ship.

Then in 2009, when Somali pirates seized cargo ship captain Richard Phillips on the open ocean, it was Howard who commanded the rescue operation; a high-stakes, internationally watched mission that she executed with the precision and composure that had defined her entire career.

Then in 2014, Admiral Howard became the first woman and the first African American to achieve the rank of four-star admiral in the United States Navy.

Two firsts. One promotion. An institution forever changed.

Spotlight 23 of 30. Follow along. 🖀✚

And the story continues. Join us for the Portraits of Patriots Film Festival: five weeks of powerful stories honoring Black military legacy.

🔗 Tap the link for dates and showtimes: https://linktr.ee/portraitsofpatriotism

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