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After decades of art collecting, prominent Washington D.C.based activist, philanthropist, and founder of the august Duke Ellington School of the Arts, Peggy Cooper Cafritz had amassed one of the most important collections of work by artists of color in the countr y. But in 2009, the more than three hundred works that comprised this extraordinary collection were destroyed in the largest residen tial fire in Washington, D.C. history. The pioneering collection included art by Kara Walker, Kerry James Marshall, Mickalene Thomas , Yinka Sh...[Read more]