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Tags: Women in Sports, Female Athletes, Competition, 100 Meters, Sprint Race, Olympics, The National Center for Drug Free Sport
Lonnie Powell (born 1941 in Kansas City, Missouri) is a multimedia painter and community organizer. Powell’s paintings and drawings are housed in the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art’s permanent collection, the Arrowhead Arts Collection, and the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. His paintings depict portraits of African American men and women. In 2001, Powell founded The Light in the Other Room, a collaborative of African American artists.