It’s always an honor when people want to sit and talk with you. My latest example is from the new arts network, All Arts TV, which is part of public media station WNET here in NYC. The episode focuses, as you may have guessed, on the importance and role of Black Spaces, both as literal sites of memory, but also as a way to raise the the public’s understanding of history and who, in fact, played a role in it. In many ways, it’s less about this being a corrective, but rather expanding everyone’s understanding that history is written by the many, not just a few.
This was clearly shot long before our current pandemic. November, I believe it was. I also forgot that the producer and host Stephanie Johnson-Cunningham and I got into a whole discussion about reparations, among other topics.
What makes this episode even richer is that I got to share it with Kamau Ware of Black Gotham, a company that’s doing amazing work illuminating the often-hidden contributions of Black people to the development of NYC. They do powerful events, exhibitions and scholarship that have been incredibly effective in engaging audiences with history.
UPCOMING: There will be an IG LIVE conversation between Kamau and I on Thursday, May 21 from 6-7 ET. Join us on either the IG pages of Black Gotham or Weeksville Heritage Center. BlackSpace has kindly agreed to curate a few questions. There will also be a portion of the stream during which Kamau will chat with brand and design marketer Brett Banks.
You can watch the entire “On Display” series to date here. Check out the full 13-minute episode here:
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