Ed Dwight is one of the nation’s most significant African American sculptors. A retrospective in Denver highlights some of the 92-year-old artist’s best-known works.
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At 92, sculptor and engineer Ed Dwight has lived multiple lives. In the ’60s, he trained to become America’s first Black astronaut. But when NASA passed him over, he found his calling in bronze. Colorado Public Radio’s Ryan Warner reports.
RYAN WARNER, BYLINE: Ed Dwight celebrates Blackness in America with more than a hundred memorials nationwide of
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