With shades on his face and paint on his fingers, Purvis Young hunches over ... said Addonis Parker, a Liberty City artist who has restored two other Young murals. “That’s the message he ...

Purvis Young, a self-taught painter who emerged from ... of escape and methods of connection between the inner city and the outer world. Indeed, there is a storytelling aspect to his paintings ...

Young's works have helped the city rise to a new level of artistic influence, says M'Bow. "Purvis has moved beyond racial categorizing to embody the aesthetic spirit of Miami," he explains.

"What you're doing is happening in every city in this country, and you chronicling this has ramifications nationwide." And then he took Young to a doctor. Purvis Young, 67, died this morning of a ...

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Black History Month began as Negro History Week in 1926. Historian Carter G. Woodson, the founder of the Association for the Study Of African American Life and History (ASALH), selected the week ...