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She had a way better reason to go to law school than I did, I'll tell you that much.

Torkwase Dyson distills stories of oppression and Black liberation into monumental artworks for her new show at Pace in New York.

Ida B. Wells was an American investigative journalist and activist whose legacy is rooted in her work as a leader in the Civil Rights movement. She spent the late 19th century and early 20th century resisting racism, sexism and violence, using her role as a journalist to raise awareness about the inequalities experienced by African Americans in the United States of America. Sophie Robinson discusses Wells' life, influence and activism.

THIS PAST SUMMER, denizens of and visitors to Chicago had the opportunity to engage with three extraordinary modes of Black feminist curatorial practice that spanned the breadth of the city. At the South Side Community Art Center, zakkiyyah najeebah dumas o’neal and LaMar R. Gayles Jr. mounted the revelatory “Emergence: Intersections at the Center”; at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Naomi Beckwith, deputy director and chief curator of New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, unveiled he...

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The works on view serve to memorialize the many lives lost, allowing space and resources to mourn those individuals, and to process both the dark histories of the United States as well as the bold acts of resistance. Hopefully the exhibition moves visitors beyond rage or grief or empathy into action.

On March 29, President Joe Biden signed a bill to make lynching a federal crime. Devised by a group of Black lawmakers in the House and Senate--Tim Scott of South Carolina, Cory Booker of New Jersey, Bobby Rush of Illinois and Kamala Harris of California (when she was still in the Senate)--the law comes into being after more than 200 failed attempts, over more than 100 years, to pass anti-lynching legislation through Congress.

Ida B. Wells wrote about racism and lynching in America to try to bring about change

Our political system was the primary obstacle to protecting the lives and livelihoods of its own citizens.

The exhibit takes visitors through American history starting in the 1890s through the start of the Black Lives Matter movement.