03 Dec Forward – A Letter from Chandler Johnson
Forward! Do you think that’s what Sisyphus said to himself as he rolled that bolder up that hill only to watch it roll back down? ...
21 Jan Hair Love by Matthew A. Cherry
Creator Matthew A. Cherry delivers Hair Love, a 7 minute animated short film that centers around the relationship between an African-American father, Stephen, his daughter, Zuri and her hair. The film won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film....
21 Jan Define Beauty by Rhea Dillion
Define Beauty is a video series by Nowness looking at the provocation and politics of attraction. Visual Artist Rhea Dillon contributes with "Process," an exploration of what it means to plan and manage hair as a Black person. The five-minute film is sensory experience to a key Black ritual....
21 Jan Rep. Ayanna Pressley shares hair journey
Online magazine The Root shares an op-ed video from U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley about her experiments with different hairstyles and textures. From locs to wigs to hair loss, Pressley reveals a powerful tale about the politics of Black hair. “It’s about self-agency. It’s about power. It’s about acceptance.” says Pressley....
21 Jan The body: a home for love by Deun Ivory
In 2018, Artist Deun Ivory produced "the body: a home for love," a visual storytelling series that explores the narrative of black women who have endured sexual abuse as a result of patriarchy. This amazing project has bloomed into a non profit that provides a healing space for black sexual assault survivors....
21 Jan 56 Black Men by Cephas Williams
56 Black Men is a campaign confronting the negative portrayal of black men within the media and public. Creative Cephas Williams photographs 56 Black men in hoodies to "serve as a reminder that for every black man you see represented doing something negative, there are 56 of us that aren't."...
21 Jan Counternarratives by Alexandra Bell
Artist and media critic Alexandra Bell interrogates the way the media shapes and spreads information, especially how it impacts our perception of minorities. Bell uses redaction, omission, annotation, and text editing to alter news articles, thus highlighting problematic techniques used in journalism....
21 Jan Black Hair Defined by HuffPost
For Black History Month 2020, HuffPost released a project aimed to untangle conversations about Black hair, called "Black Hair Defined." The multimedia project celebrates stories of self-invention and highlights the variety in Black hairstyles....
18 Jan Announcing our new project, Pick Posters
In the early 1960s, we embarked on a new frontier. We organized and came together to ‘shoot for the moon.’ We chose to do the hard things because they weren’t easy. And while in that same timeframe, we made giant leaps for mankind in space, the field of Dr. King’s dream for equity and equality for humankind is significantly unsown. T...
17 Jan Ad Astra – A Letter from Chandler Johnson
In the early 1960s, we embarked on a new frontier. We organized and came together to ‘shoot for the moon.’ We chose to do the hard things because they weren’t easy. And while in that same timeframe, we made giant leaps for mankind in space, the field of Dr. King’s dream for equity and equality for humankind is significantly unsown. T...