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In the fall of 1970, the Black feminist poet, teacher, and activist June Jordan traveled to Italy as a Rome Prize recipient in the category of Environmental Design ( We’re On 153).1 She was awarded the prize for work that grew out of her collaboration with the architect R. Buckminster Fuller. Jordan’s connection with Fuller began in 1964, when Jord... See more

“Harlem Will Widen from River to River”: Environmental Justice and ...

Though he might not get there himself, he could provide a way so other Black men and women might reach the top ranks of IBM.

Clyde W. Ford • Think Black: A Memoir

than be slaves to market forces (Du Bois 1933b).

Jessica Gordon Nembhard • Collective Courage: A History of African American Cooperative Economic Thought and Practice

his understanding of the roles and functions of music in Black American culture, the legacy of black aspirations for freedom in the United States, and his intent to follow the “creative urge.”

Leonard Brown • John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music

He was nurtured by the black American belief that children should be taught to sing; that learning to sing—running sound through one’s body—was an essential component in developing to one’s full capacity as a human being.

Leonard Brown • John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music

I feel like my cultural value comes from my role as a bridge. My job is to connect brilliant have-nots to the land of haves.

Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson • Mo' Meta Blues: The World According to Questlove

In 1997, Malcolm Gladwell published his piece The Coolhunt, investigating the process of looking for new fashion trends at street level.

According to Gladwell, the coolhunter plays a major social role in spreading trends. Coolhunters were “the first to realize... that social status didn’t lay where Madison Avenue had said it lay in the 1950s and 19... See more

Gaby Goldberg • Curators All the Way Down

It seemed to Pierce, though, that the same technology that risked creating another generation of psychically damaged black children could also be used as a radical therapeutic intervention. As he told his colleagues within the Black Psychiatrists of America in 1970: “Many of you know that for years I have been convinced that our ultimate enemies an

Undark Magazine • The Forgotten Tale of How Black Psychiatrists Helped Make ‘Sesame Street’

representative of black freedom.