Photograph of Mary Ann Pollar, 1980s. Courtesy of Electra Price.
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Mary Ann Pollar, activist and impresario
Mary Ann PollarRainbow Sign
Young, gifted and black
Ever stylish
Kinship and camaraderie
Mary Ann Pollar made an Oakland Post columnist want to "run up a flag signifying, Right On!"
Rainbow empress-ario
Black art for all
Pollar posed the question: "If Black people got together, what songs would they sing?"
Radical joy
With Nina Simone's help, Mary Ann Pollar clarified the Rainbow Sign's educational mission
Still smiling in color