Afrofuturism isn't just about placing a Black person in a futuristic landscape. It takes into account the challenges Black people face and allows them to imagine futures of their own making.
How a Museum Show Honoring Breonna Taylor Is Trying to âGet It Rightâ
An upcoming exhibition brings Black contemporary artists to Louisvilleâs Speed Art Museum to honor Taylor and her legacy. For the curator Allison Glenn, itâs been an intense journey.
Nick Cave, “Unarmed,” 2018, from “Promise, Witness, Remembrance,” an exhibition opening April 7 at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Ky., in honor of Breonna Taylor. Credit.Nick Cave
Published March 11, 2021Updated March 13, 2021
âPromise, Witness, Remembranceâ â an exhibition opening April 7 at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Ky., in honor of Breonna Taylor, the 26-year-old medical worker killed by police there nearly a year ago â came together fast, yet in a manner âtempered by conversations,â said its curator Allison Glenn.
How to Diversify Trump County
Brentin Mock, Bloomberg, December 11, 2020
When driving from Pittsburgh to its deep eastern suburbs, you know you’ve arrived in Westmoreland County when you see the farms with the massive Trump campaign displays, some as elaborate as Christmas Nativity yard scenes. Indeed, there is an entire Trump House. The county is reliably Republican and overwhelmingly white roughly 95% white compared to 2.4% Black and 2.8% “Other.” When Trump alarmed voters that Democrats and socialists were coming to doom the suburbs, this county was the kind of place he envisioned saving. He won it in November with 63.46% of the vote, which was 2 percentage points less than he won it with in 2016.