Category: Arts

  • How Our February Cover Star Amandla Stenberg Learned to Love Her Blackness Teen Vogue 2016-01-07 Solange Knowles Edited by Elaine Welteroth Photograph by Ben Toms She tells all to Solange Knowles in our latest issue. I have a confession to make: I didn’t prepare for my interview with Amandla Stenberg. Though we had never met,…

  • Multiracial in a Monoracial World: Interaciality Informing Academic Work University of Michigan Hatcher Graduate Library Gallery (Room 100) 913 S University Ave Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 2015-10-26 Martha Jones, Prof. of History and Afroamerican & African Studies, co-director of the Michigan Law Program in Race, Law & History. Dr. Jones’ scholarly interests include the history…

  • The Free State of Jones Movie to be released May 13, 2016 Renegade South: Histories of Unconventional Southerners 2016-01-05 Vikki Bynum, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History Texas State University, San Marcos The Free State of Jones Movie poster Victoria E. Bynum is author of the book The Free State of Jones, Movie Edition: Mississippi’s Longest…

  • Adrian Piper, the uncompromising Berlin-based American artist and philosopher whose work applies the rigorous strictures of conceptual art to questions of race and identity, was awarded a Golden Lion award at the 56th Venice Biennale earlier this month. Piper received the honor for her participation in “All the World’s Futures,” where she showed The Probable…

  • The artist and philosopher Adrian Piper’s direct and subtly intellectual approach to unpacking the tangled issues of race, gender, identity, and belonging has inspired a generation of socially-conscious artists across all media, although her impact is just now being fully recognized: she was the recipient of the Golden Lion for best artist at this year’s…

  • Exhibit by Penn cultural anthropologist showcases Afro-Latinos in Philadelphia Penn Current: News, ideas and conversations from the University of Pennsylvania 2015-12-10 Jacquie Posey Free and enslaved Africans shaped and built Latin America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean. Their descendants, known as Afro-Latinos, are featured in a new photo exhibition by cultural anthropologist Sandra Andino, associate director…

  • One Drop of Love 2015 Fanshen Cox DiGiovanni 2015-12-30 Love & Gratitude to all who contributed to making 2015 an amazing year for One Drop of Love! One Drop of Love is a multimedia one-woman show exploring the intersections of race, class, gender, justice and LOVE. For more information, click here.

  • ‘True Detective’ Helmer Cary Fukunaga Teams With John Legend For Pulitzer Winner ‘The Black Count’ Deadline Hollywood 2014-04-28 Dominic Patten EXCLUSIVE: On fire since the success of HBO‘s True Detective this year, director Cary Fukunaga has lined up his next project I’ve learned. Teaming with John Legend and his Get Lifted Film Co. partner Mike…

  • The many faces of Frederick Douglass Democrat and Chronicle Rochester, New York 2015-12-25 Jim Memmott, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English University of Rochester, Rochester, New York Portrait of Frederick Douglass taken November 3, 1882 by John Howe Kent, 24 State Street, Rochester, New York (Photo: Courtesy of the Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and…

  • When a master class with ballerina Misty Copeland becomes a San Pedro homecoming The Los Angeles Times 2015-12-23 Deborah Vankin, Contact Reporter Ascendant ballerina Misty Copeland leads a master class during Monday’s celebration in San Pedro. (Christina House/For The Times) The crowd of about 200 huddled in the parking lot of San Pedro City Ballet,…