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Telling Stories of Black Life Rescued Him
ROXBURY, Conn. — Ron Norsworthy, a visual artist and designer, could slot effortlessly into popular culture’s best of the hero: He is a guy of relentless self-invention. He researched architecture at Princeton, worked for a yr as a designer with Michael Graves, and, immediately after staying laid off, remodeled himself into an art director and creation designer for commonly-identified hip-hop teams in the 1990s (amid them Missy Elliott, Busta Rhymes and Salt-N-Pepa). Even though at 1st the art route work was fascinating, Norsworthy stated, “I recognized in the late ’90s that the hip-hop tunes movie planet was one [where] I located myself marginalized.” In the early 2000s he designed his…