On Public Art, Historical Memory, and Racial Violence
In 1919, two dozen race riots broke out across the United States, and the collective racial terror traumatized Black communities.
Read more
Art
The History of African American Visual Culture
If you were lucky enough to see “The Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power,” an
Read more
Audre Lorde: Meet
1.arrangement “There is a place here where the Atlantic meets the Caribbean and it is very magical,
Read more
Audre Lorde And I Were Once Enemies
Audre Lorde and I were once mortal enemies. At least that’s the way it seemed. In late 2004, I wrote
Read more
Amiri Baraka, Black Music, and Black Modernity
I first encountered Amiri Baraka in Fred Moten’s In The Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition. I know
Read more