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Willie O’Ree portrait unveiled for permanent display in New Brunswick hometown | Globalnews.ca
In Fredericton, there are few names more iconic than Willie O’Ree.
He was the first Black hockey player to be drafted into the National Hockey League and now a life-size portrait of him hangs permanently in the Beaverbrook Art…
Portrait of Willie O’Ree, first Black player in NHL, to be unveiled at Fredericton gallery |…
One of Fredericton's most famous figures will have a special place on the walls of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery for years to come.Willie O'Ree — who became the first Black man to play in the NHL when he laced up for the Boston Bruins in 1958…
A portrait of one of the few young, female truckers in France
Feature · artsA portrait of one of the few young, female truckers in FranceAmélie, 23, drives a route between France and Spain twice a week. Her truck is an important part of her identity — which photographer Yohanne Lamoulère captured in!-->…
The Meghan and Harry Documentary Is a Chilling Portrait of Life as a Biracial Royal
What's new is Meghan conveying just how wholly unprepared she was for the torrent of racist abuse she'd field as a royal wife—not just because she was an American unversed in the ways of the Firm and the British tabloids, but because of her…
‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’ Is So Much More Than a Portrait of an Artist
And yet Goldin’s stories pale in comparison to the film’s coverage of the Sackler family—with the documentary’s format bringing home the human cost of the opioid crisis in a more emotional way than has yet been managed on screen. Poitras…
Microsoft PowerPoint app for iOS is getting portrait mode – Times of India
Microsoft has started testing portrait mode on iOS with Office Insiderusers. The stable version of the app currently allows users to view the slides in landscape mode only. However, Insider users can now view, edit and create slides in!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…
‘She didn’t hesitate’: The untold story behind a Black Canadian woman’s…
Thousands of people have seen it over the past 70-plus years: a dramatic oil portrait from 1946 of a Black Canadian woman in a military uniform, standing behind a canteen counter.Her arms are crossed. Her face is stern. Decades later, the…
Why Are Portrait Scenes in Films So… Hot?
There’s a pivotal scene in Michael Grandage’s My Policeman in which museum curator Patrick (David Dawson) ushers policeman Tom (Harry Styles) into his apartment. Patrick introduces Tom as “my cousin” to a nosy neighbor across the hall,…