Fugitivity, Refusal, and Visual Captivity: A Review of Tina Campt’s Listening to Images
I will never forget the unnerving feeling that washed over me when I first saw Sandra Bland’s mug shot circulating
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Racism
Colorism as Racism: Garvey, Du Bois and the Other Color Line
One hundred years ago this month, Marcus Mosiah Garvey and thirteen associates gathered in a Harlem basement to found the
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The Art of Domination: On Decolonizing the Curriculum
Those professors among us who teach from the perspective of the oppressed are often tasked with un-teaching what our students
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How Public Artists Are Exploring the History of Segregation in Baltimore
How should America publicly acknowledge its history of legal segregation? For many people, the intricate system that required whites and blacks
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The Life and Music of Florence Price: An Interview with Rae Linda Brown
In today’s post, Ashleigh Gordon, a world-renowned, award-winning violist and New England Conservatory alumna (Castle of Our Skins, Callithumpian Consort,
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