Category: Arts

  • Jefferson’s Children: The Story of One American Family Random House December 2002 160 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0195031720 Trade Paperback ISBN: 978-0-375-82168-4 Shannon Lanier and Jane Feldman Personal testimonies from descendants of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings pose important questions about equality, freedom, and family. On October 31, 1998, the Associated Press broke the news that…

  • Jordan Peele on a Truly Terrifying Monster: Racism The New York Times 2017-02-16 Jason Zinoman Jordan Peele, who is making his directorial debut with the horror film “Get Out.” Credit Elizabeth Weinberg for The New York Times The sketch comedian takes on racial politics and the “liberal elite” in his debut feature, the horror movie…

  • First Look: Amandla Stenberg, George MacKay in Amma Asante’s ‘Where Hands Touch’ (EXCLUSIVE) Variety 2017-02-08 Leo Barraclough, Senior International Correspondent Courtesy of Tantrum Films/Pinewood Pictures Variety has been given exclusive access to the first-look image from Amma Asante’s “Where Hands Touch,” which stars Amandla Stenberg (“The Hunger Games”) and George MacKay (“Captain Fantastic”) in a…

  • I organized a panel of mixed-race ceramic sculpture artists whose work speaks to issues of race and identity titled “Paradox: Identity & Belonging” for NCECA’s 50th anniversary conference in Kansas City, Missouri, last spring. Fellow Canadian, Brendan Tang, as well as Americans Jennifer Datchuk and Nathan Murray joined me on stage.

  • Thank you for choosing to bring your students to the Wilma’s production of An Octoroon, by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. I applaud your willingness to take a risk on this one. While on some level we all understand that the most extraordinary learning opportunities emerge when we venture outside our comfort zone, most of us still gravitate…

  • Leyton playwright Lynette Linton’s play #Hashtag Lightie will be running at Arcola Theatre in Dalston Wimbledon Guardian 2017-01-23 Rachel Russell What does it mean to be mixed race in this day and age? That is the question being posed by Leyton writer Lynette Linton in her new play #Hashtag Lightie at the Arcola Theatre, in…

  • African Americans in Atlanta: Adrienne Herndon, an Uncommon Woman Southern Spaces: A Journal about Real and Imagined Spaces and Places of the US South and their Global Connections 2004-03-16 DOI: 10.18737/M7XP4B Carole Merritt Portrait of Adrienne Herndon, date unknown. (c) The Herndon Home. Overview  Ahead of her time and outside of her assigned place, Adrienne…

  • Iconic Fine Arts Sculptor Edmonia Lewis Honored In Google Doodle The Huffington Post 2017-02-01 Zahara Hill, Black Voices Editorial Fellow Sophie Diao The artist’s dedication to portraying her African-American and Native-American ancestry separated her from other sculptors.  Black History Month began with the art of this lesser-known black icon. In honor of the start of…

  • President with a torpedo in his crotch: how the works of Lubaina Himid speak to Trump times The Guardian 2017-01-17 Hettie Judah Lubaina Himid among the cutouts of slaves that form her 2004 piece Naming the Money, at Spike Island contemporary art centre in Bristol. Photograph: Adrian Sherratt for the Guardian Born in Zanzibar and…

  • All of which makes Michael Tisserand’s “Krazy: George Herriman, a Life in Black and White” a fascinating and frustrating biography. Though Herriman’s “Krazy Kat” comic strip was admired in his lifetime, it wasn’t until years after his death in 1944 that his vast influence received widespread critical respect.