A virtual exhibition of 28 works that celebrate Black legacy in the U.S.
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AN INTRODUCTION
To a moment in Black history exemplified by the art, literature or artifact featured for the day
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
To guide conversations with your family, friends, classroom, or colleagues
ACTION ITEMS
To dismantle anti-Blackness in your community
This exhibition centers the voices of Black LGBTQ leaders and Black leaders with disabilities often diminished in our nation’s history.
Our Curators
Camille Bethune-Brown (she/her)
Camille Bethune-Brown is a queer, disabled, Black History Curator working at the intersection of race and disability studies. She is an expert of late 19th and 20th century African American culture and historiography in relation to the emergence of museums and memory making. Camille offers spirited conversations creating inclusive stories about the past. Camille believes in thought provoking conversations that force America’s reckoning with its collective past. Throughout Camille’s education and experiences, she’s had the opportunity to share inclusive history and culture with a wide diverse audience while working with some of the most influential institutions and talented professionals in the field.
Shanaé Burch (she/her)
Shanaé Burch believes in the power of storytelling to revive health and reconcile hearts. Her hunch has led her to pursue a doctorate in public health education at Teachers College, Columbia University where she's studying health equity through the lens of better leveraging arts and culture for wellbeing. She previously attended Emerson College and Harvard Graduate School of Education where she received her B.F.A in Acting and Ed.M in Arts in Education respectively. She is a co-founder of Black Theatre Caucus and a member-leader of Actors' Equity Association She’s run 3 of the 6 World Major Marathons, and hopes to run in Tokyo, London, and Berlin one day. Shanaé lives, works, plays, prays, and practices social distancing in NYC. www.shanaeburch.com
I see the richness of this moment to record for our future generations. Our kids will ask us: What did you do?
What did you do when COVID-19 happened? What did you do when BLM protests occurred, after George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, what did you do when they tried to impeach Trump a second time? What did you do when the Capitol was taken over by white supremacists? My job as a historian is to do that exact transference of power these moments, because how we describe them will define future generations. I feel indebted to make sure that we catalog these moments and record these moments as comprehensively and democratically as possible.
— Tyree Boyd-Pates, Historian and Curator
