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CFA Magazine Feature: Conversation Artists Joel Christian Gill (CFA’04) and Charles Suggs (CFA’20) discuss using their work to tell lesser-known stories from Black history Originally published in the Fall 2020 issue of CFA magazine. Edited By Mara Sassoon. Photos by Hannah Rose  In the wee hours of May 13, 1862, Robert Smalls, an enslaved Black man, stole the Confederate ship the CSS  Planter. It was the middle of the Civil War, and Smalls, one of the  Planter’s eight enslaved crew members, steered the ship away from a dock in Charleston, S.C., after its white captain, pilot, and e...

To the editor: I am a Vermonter and an artist in Brattleboro. I am shocked and very disappointed to hear of the decision to remove the outstanding mural "The Underground Railroad, Vermont and the Fugitive Slave," on the campus wall of the Vermont Law School in Royalton, created by Sam Kerson and his team in the early 1990s. This team of painters included the African American painter Kenny Hughes. Sam Kerson has spent his entire life in the struggle for social justice for all people. He uses art and performance to engage people in building vibrant multicultural communities around the world. He...

Artist sues over Vermont Law School’s plan to remove murals A panel from a mural by Sam Kerson that had been displayed at Vermont Law School in Royalton, Vt. The school plans to paint over the mural, "The Underground Railroad Vermont and the Fugitive Slave," painted in 1993, because "the depictions of the African-Americans on the mural are offensive to many in our community and, upon reflection and consultation, we have determined that the mural is not consistent with our School’s commitment to fairness, inclusion, diversity, and social justice," according to a statement from VLS Dean Dea...

Count on the left to talk crazy, to talk outrageous, to try to add fuel to this thing. that's not what is going on. everybody knows it but there are other things to say so they have to talk stupid. >> sheriff, i respect you deeply. but i submit that if you are a member of a family that was being broken up because the one undocumented immigrant parent, usually the dad is being arrested and the breadwinner is being stripped away, the difference between -- that family and how the fugitive slave's family felt are very similar. let me add this fact, mayor bill de blasio -- who i do not like, we hav...

"the new york times" carries the report that 150-year-old mystery has been solved and we now know the name of the author of the first novel written by an african-american woman. hannah bond was a slave in north carolina who eventually escaped to upstate new york before settling in new jersey. her handwritten nochl was not published but purchased from a new york city bookseller in 1948 by dorothy porter wesley, an african-american librarian. in 2001, the harvard professor henry gates jr. saw the manuscripten a catalog where it was described as a 301-page handwritten script writ be in a female s...