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Strange Fruit: The First Great Protest Song

Date:
Apr 20 1939

It is a clear, fresh New York night in March 1939. You’re on a date and you’ve decided to investigate a new club in a former speakeasy on West 4th Street: Cafe Society, which calls itself “The Wrong Place for…

The Harlem Festival of Culture

Practitioner:
HFC, Tony Cornelius

Date:
Apr 20 1939

The Harlem Festival of Culture not only pays homage to the past but also envisions a brighter future. It serves as a platform to showcase the rich diversity and dynamism of Harlem’s artistic community, while also acting as a catalyst…

The Ogden Ar(t)chives Mailbox

Practitioner:
Angelika Brewer

Date:
Apr 20 1939

The Ogden Ar(t)chives Mailbox is a community project that was initiated by Ogden poet, Angelika Brewer. The project involves a metal sculpture of a mailbox, which has various decorative elements such as a typewriter, a birdcage, and a heart. The…

Youth Activist Art Archive

Practitioner:
University of Utah

Date:
Apr 20 1939

The Youth Activist Art Archive (YAAA) is a dedicated platform that highlights and celebrates the creative efforts of young individuals (26 years old and younger) actively participating in diverse social movements and causes. YAAA acknowledges the vital role and innovative…

James Luna’s “The Artifact Piece” (1987)

Practitioner:
James Luna

Date:
Apr 20 1939

The performance artist James Luna, who died in 2018 at age 68, had a wicked sense of humor, which made his explorations of the way that Indigenous people have long been objectified, especially in museums, painfully piquant. A member of…

Remembering Photographer and Activist Kwame Brathwaite, Who Gave a Visual Language to the ‘Black Is Beautiful’ Movement

Practitioner:
Kwame Brathwaite

Date:
Apr 20 1939

Kwame Brathwaite, the photographer and activist whose work gave a visual identity to the “Black is Beautiful” movement, died on April 1. He was 85. The news was shared by his son, Kwame Brathwaite, Jr., in an Instagram post. “I…

BLM MURAL PROJECT – TACOMA

Practitioner:
Breyahna Monet, Brian Neal Sr, Chloe Pargmann, Chuck Taylor, Danielle Jordan, Dionne Bonner, Gwen Jones, Kenya Adams, Michelle Mack

Date:
Apr 20 1939

Artists Dionne Bonner, Kenya Adams, Gwen Jones, and Charles Taylor planned the creation of the Black Lives Matter mural in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement. Additional artists Breyahna Monet and Danielle Jordan joined the project in the second…

The Folded Map Project

Practitioner:
Tonika Lewis Johnson

Date:
Apr 20 1939

The Folded Map Project is a project by Tonika Lewis Johnson, a photographer and community activist from Chicago. The project aims to investigate and change the racial and economic segregation that affects the city and its residents. The project started…

American Born Chinese

Practitioner:
Gene Yang

Date:
Apr 20 1939

American Born Chinese is a graphic novel published in 2006 by the American author and illustrator Gene Luen Yang. Through three interweaving stories that span from the 16th century to the present, the novel explores issues of Chinese American identity,…

Street Art Activism: What White People Call Vandalism

Practitioner:
DeVante Brooks, Mona Caron, Nancypili Hernandez, Olek

Date:
Apr 20 1939

In this article, author Caroline Choi highlights different grafiti artists and their stories. These artists use their talent to tell their stories, ones that might not get to be told otherwise. She goes into the history of grafiti, and how…