Subtlety was a marvelous sculpture made by Kara Walker for the Domino Sugar Factory, a place dripping with the residue of productivity, a productivity built on the backs of African …
This beautiful, elegiac short film by Savanah Leaf is a video poem. “The Ayes Have It” was written by Tiana Clark and speaks about being a mixed race woman in …
Jamilla Okubo talks about using art to tell her story and the story of her culture, from growing up in D.C. to reconnecting with her father’s side of the family …
There is a fine line between admiring someone and exploiting them. Leah Anderson explores how it feels to be singled out. “You Ask Me What I Am So You May …
This video from the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) takes us to St. Mary’s First Nation in New Brunswick. Ned Bear, who passed away last year, was a master woodworker and …
Daniel Obasi is a Nigerian art director, fashion stylist, photographer and filmmaker who is “deeply concerned with advancing the scope of African narratives”. This is Embers of Bloom, a beautiful look …
If you haven’t heard Joel Thompson’s Seven Last Words of the Unarmed, prepare yourself for this stirring work. This is a scoring for full orchestra; the original was for a …
This is the first post of our new “Listen” series, about the journeys and contributions of people of color. Please take some time to drift through and meditate on this …
Bombarded with cultural traditions and unrealistic fantasies, we often forget that a woman is a person and it is her right to define her life in her own terms. When …
Years after a catastrophe, resilience continues to express itself. Memory lets us relive and reinterpret past events, unpacking things that overwhelmed us and growing our response over time. It is …
