This guide includes supplemental resources for readers to explore the themes of MTC Reads book selections: Driving While Black, Lovecraft Country, and Stories of Struggle
Bonded by a common viewpoint on what makes for delicious food, Johno Morisano and Chef Mashama Bailey partnered to build The Grey in Historic Downtown Savannah.
With colonialist statues being toppled in America and beyond, T asked five artists to envision a different kind of memorial, one that embodies this moment of reckoning.
The Chicago Monuments Project is leading a city-wide dialogue in search of ways to resolve its landscape of problematic statues, and make room for a new, different kind of public memorial.
Amanda Gorman, the nation’s first-ever youth poet laureate, read "The Hill We Climb" during the inauguration of President Joe Biden on January 20, 2021.
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Civil rights leaders beam from walls in Columbia's Hyatt and Woodfield Parks. Vibrant school children are at Valencia Park and a by-gone Black business district shines again on Main Street, all through four new murals.
John Sims, a Detroit native, is an interdisciplinary conceptual artist who creates multimedia projects spanning the areas of mathematics, art, text, performance and political-media activism.
Ija Charles' newest mural in downtown Columbia commemorates the Black Business District that occupied parts of Washington St. in the early 20th century.
The mural is an homage to the Indiana press for breaking the Klan's grip on power in the state, but critics say its depictions of the KKK aren't just historical.
Christina Sharpe says the issue at the heart of the dispute over the Emmett Till painting is not representation so much as intimacy and our relationship to violence.
This Getty Center exhibition of images made during periods of social struggle in the United States highlights the myriad roles protest photographs play in shaping our understanding of American life.