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Imagination and Creativity & racism

Below are the best resources we could find on Imagination and Creativity and racism.

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Can Art Amend History? | Titus Kaphar

Artist Titus Kaphar makes paintings and sculptures that wrestle with the struggles of the past while speaking to the diversity and advances of the present.

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Afro-Nostalgia: Feeling Good in Contemporary Black Culture

The past as a building block of a more affirming and hopeful future As early as the eighteenth century, white Americans and Europeans believed that people of African descent could not experience nostalgia.

Badia Ahad-Legardy

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An Indigenous Spoken Word Artist Explores the Word “Indian”

Mitcholos Touchie, or A Mind With Wings, is a Yuułuʔiłʔatḥ/ Nuučaan̓uɫ artist from a small village on the West Coast of Vancouver Island. He joined us for our Spoken Word residency in 2017. While here, he performed one of his pieces that explores the nature of the word “Indian.

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The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

Here is Toni Morrison in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and speeches, spanning four decades. These pages give us her searing prayer for the dead of 9/11, her Nobel lecture on the power of language, her searching meditation on Martin Luther King Jr.

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Is the Land O’Lakes Maiden a Racist Trope or Symbol of Native Pride?

High-profile Minnesota dairy brand Land O’Lakes made national headlines in April 2020 (not easy to do during a pandemic) when it quietly removed the focal point of its logo since 1928: a kneeling Native American woman known as Mia.

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Remembering Toni Morrison, An Iconic American Author | NYT News

The author Toni Morrison has died at the age of 88. She was the first African-American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature and best known for her nuanced discussion of race in America.

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The Measure of Our Lives: A Gathering of Wisdom

This inspirational book juxtaposes quotations, one to a page, drawn from Toni Morrison's entire body of work, both fiction and nonfiction--from The Bluest Eye to God Help the Child, from Playing in the Dark to The Source of Self-Regard--to tell a story of self-actualization.

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Ibram X. Kendi: This Is the Black Renaissance

"In this first Black History Month after the racial reckoning of 2020, I feel impelled to do what historians rarely do: mark history while the story is still being written.

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Sonia Sanchez-Black Arts Movement (Bam) to Hip Hop

This was a panel discussion from a few years back where several members of the Black Arts Movement spoke including poet Sonia Sanchez . They gave up game on the History of the Black Arts Movement, their lives and the role art plays in shaping politics and the world around them.

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Nikki Giovanni Interviews Muhammad Ali

A real educational and heart felt talk between two deep thinkers.

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