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Humes cites a book about artist and writer Romare Bearden that he received from Akil when he was 6 years old as the foundation for his worldview as an artist.

Beauty was also coyly positioned, always in view of my and my brother’s drifting curiosities, like the framed print of “Jammin’ at the Savoy” by Romare Bearden that she hung just outside the kitchen’s entrance that I loved so much, that I sometimes wanted to live inside of, debonair and irreducibly cool like Bearden’s jazz men.

Mr. Hawsawi has been held for the past 20 years but not as punishment or exclusively for trial, Colonel Bearden said.

Joshua S. Bearden, an Army prosecutor, said the answer was no.

I learned about the Studio Museum in Harlem and artists like Alma Thomas and Romare Bearden.