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This is a photo of 7 Arts CORE member Yuri Kochiyama (left page, glasses, black dress) cradling the head of Malcolm X just after he had been assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom on February 21, 1965.

The photo speaks to just how involved…

This is a 1939 photo of 7 Arts CORE member Jack Gilford. In it, he is performing at Cafe Society in Greenwich Village, widely regarded as the first racially integrated night club in the United States.

Both he and his wife, 7 Arts member…

This is a 1976 photo of 7 Arts CORE members Valerie Harper and Jack Gilford. It is a publicity still from Harper's television series 'Rhoda' in which she starred as the lead character.

Harper wasn't just an active member, she was an officer in…

This is a photo of Yuri Kochiyama, 7 Arts CORE, perhaps the most widely recognized and respected Asian American activist in the history of the United States.

Her activism started as a member of CORE at Brooklyn CORE’s demonstrations at…

This is a 1948 photo of 7 Arts CORE members Yuri (female, center) and Bill (male, right) Kochiyama with their son, Billy.

'The first family of Asian-American activists', Yuri began her activism at Brooklyn CORE’s demonstration at SUNY Downstate…

This is a photo of 7 Arts CORE member Benny Powell. A trombonist, he is mostly known for his long stint in the Count Basie Orchestra. He also taught at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music after 1994.

This is a photo of 7 Arts CORE member Alix Kates Shulman. Originally brought into the group by her friends Lloyd and Barbara Richards, she believes she was the one who originally suggested they be called 7 Arts CORE. She had been around CORE as…

This is a photo of 7 Arts member Lloyd Richards. Both he and his wife Barbara were among the founding members of 7 Arts CORE.

Richards, as the director of the original 1959 production of "Raisin in the Sun" , was the first Black to direct…

This is a photo of 7 Arts CORE chairman Jack Jeffers. A bass trombonist, he has played with a Who's Who of the Jazz world, from Clark Terry, Charles Tolliver, Herbie Hancock to Charles Earland. He went on to become the director of the Duke…

This is a photo of 7 Arts CORE chairman Frances Foster.
She was an award winning actress and stage director (one Obie and two AUDELCO Awards. .

She was also a founding member of the Negro Ensemble Company and a director at the New Federal…