About Richard A. Long
Richard A. Long was an American cultural historian and author, who has been called "one of the great pillars of African-American arts and culture". As an academic, he taught at University of Pennsylvania, University of Paris, University of Poitiers, Atlanta University, Emory University, Morgan State College and West Virginia State College, and had worked as a visiting lecturer at universities in Africa and India. At Hampton in 1968 he founded the Triennial Symposium on African Art, now an annual conference at Atlanta University's Center for African and African American Studies.
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