Slave Rebellion Reenactment will restage and reinterpret Louisiana’s German Coast Uprising of 1811. This uprising was the largest rebellion of enslaved people in American history.
Aja Monet: 'If it can't be spoken it ain't worth writing'
Pope.L’s Conceptual Bottled Water Project Calls Attention to the Crisis in Flint
The famed social practice artist sells bottled water out of a Detroit gallery to highlight the continuing emergency by Sarah Rose Sharp.
Unraveling the Complicated Confederate Legacy, One Strand at a Time
Sonya Clark’s performance Unraveling comes at a time when racists feel newly emboldened to display their bigotry by Emily Elizabeth Goodman.
Angela Hennessy’s Solo Show Offers Up Hair As Eulogy
Angela Hennessy is an Associate Professor at CCA and lectures and leads workshops on the decolonization of death and grief.
Black Lives Matter (WHEN?) by Music Video Artist: Mr. PopALot
Spoken Word: Amanda Gorman
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Peter Williams’s Everyday American Hell
Williams has a deeply personal awareness of the irreparable harm done to black bodies by John Yau
Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises
In this powerful and wide-ranging collection of essays, Rebecca Solnit turns her attention to the war at home. This is a war, she says, “with so many casualties that we should call it by its true name, this war with so many dead by police, by violent ex-husbands and partners and lovers, by people pursuing power and profit at the point of a gun or just shooting first and figuring out who they hit later.” To get to the root of these American crises, she contends that “to acknowledge this state of war is to admit the need for peace,” countering the despair of our age with a dose of solidarity, creativity, and hope.