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Black History Month
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David C. Driskell delivers his acceptance speech after receiving the Lifetime Legacy Award from Skowhegan. CONTRIBUTED -
Driskell, front row, left, with some church congregation members in Eatonton. FILE PHOTO -
Hunts Chapel AME Church. FILE PHOTO
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and activist Alice Walker and the late Tuskegee Airman Hiram E. Little are both prominent Black Eatonton natives recognized with pride in the local community.
But there’s a third person who seems to have slipped quietly under the local “famous” radar who is widely recognized in the international art world and even has a center at a university named in his honor.
Dr…
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