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Aaron Douglas’ History Lesson on the Responsibility of Black Artists

In an interview with Fisk University professor Leslie Collins, Harlem Renaissance painter and educator Aaron Douglas recalled his admiration for

This post is part of our forum on Black Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy. The general consensus, scholarly and lay,

This post is part of our forum on Black Intellectuals and the Crisis of Democracy. Once Africans began being forced onto

The Black Arts Movement (BAM) was a controversial, politically charged cultural uprising, which James Smethurst, in his eponymous study of

This post is part of our forum on Bounce Music “We’re bouncing the whole time,” states Big Freedia—a gender non-conforming