[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 118 (Tuesday, September 10, 2013)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1271]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   A TRIBUTE TO BARBARA CHASE RIBOUD

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                          HON. ROBERT A. BRADY

                            of pennsylvania

                    in the house of representatives

                      Tuesday, September 10, 2013

  Mr. BRADY of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, I rise to honor Barbara Chase 
Riboud who is truly a renaissance women. Her talent as a novelist, 
poet, scholar and artist of the highest order, is recognized around the 
world. We are happy to claim her as a Philadelphian and are excited 
about the exhibition of the first comprehensive retrospective of her 
iconic Malcolm X Steles at the Philadelphia Art Museum. In short, we 
are deeply honored by her work, accomplishments and presence once again 
in Philadelphia.
  Educated at the Philadelphia High School for Girls', Temple 
University's Tyler School of Art and the Yale University of Art, she is 
an internationally acclaimed visual artist whose work has been 
exhibited throughout Europe and America. Her public sculpture, Africa 
Rising, at the African Burial Ground National Monument in Lower 
Manhattan expressed as poetry, sculpture and historical novel is in 
tribute to the 17th and 18th century burial ground that yielded the 
remains of more than 400 mostly enslaved Africans in America.
  Among her prestigious awards are the Carl Sandburg Prize for Best 
American Poet and being knighted in the Order of Arts and Letters by 
the French government. Her talent is only eclipsed by her career long 
commitment to make known the story of those who came to America, ``. . 
. a stunned string of Black pearls like a hundred year centipede: one 
thousand. One thousand thousand. one million, three, six, nine, thirty 
million.''

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