Acori Honzo remembers growing up in the 1980s playing with action figures resembling heroes like He-Man and Luke Skywalker. But he doesn’t remember playing with any toys that looked like him.’I didn’t feel sad when I played with these things, but, what if, what if,’ he asked. ‘What if I had a little, say, Langston Hughes, or if I had Harriet Tubman?’Honzo, 43, decided to use his lifelong art skills to answer that question retroactively.’I noticed there weren’t that many African American sculptures, so I just started making them myself,’ he said.Now, Honzo is notable for sculpting lifelike dolls of Malcom X, Harriet Tubman, Tupac Shakur, and other black figures throughout American history.’I’m thinking a…
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