The stories and reviews below offer meaningful ways to observe this day of remembrance and celebration, from books to read about Black American photography and art through Nona Faustine and Adama Delphine Fawundu’s examinations of New York’s history of slavery, a new documentary exploring the role of faith in Black liberation, and more.
Happy Juneteenth! The stories and reviews below offer meaningful ways to observe this day of remembrance and celebration, from books to read about Black American photography and art through Nona Faustine and Adama Delphine Fawundu’s examinations of New York’s history of slavery, a new documentary exploring the role of faith in Black liberation, and more. In our Pride Month series, read an interview with Diné artist and weaver Roy Kady, who says he’s “first a shepherd.” — Hakim Bishara, Senior Editor | |
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| | | Delve into the long history of African-American photography, bell hooks’s essays on art and politics, a graphic novel on the Black Panther Party, and more. | Lakshmi Rivera Amin |
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ART & HISTORY | | | | Faustine’s White Shoes photography series demands a reckoning with the histories and afterlives of slavery, settler colonialism, and genocidal violence. | Alexandra M. Thomas |
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| | | | Adama Delphine Fawundu’s installation at the Lefferts Historic House in Prospect Park honors the 25 individuals who were once enslaved there. | Maya Pontone |
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| | | | Juneteenth: Faith and Freedom (2022) is screening at the Brooklyn Public Library in Flatbush on Thursday, June 20. | Rhea Nayyar |
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MORE ON HYPERALLERGIC | | Weaver Roy Kady Is a Shepherd First“That’s what traditional Navajo weaving is: an interpretation of your environment,” the Diné artist told Hyperallergic in an interview. | Elaine Velie |
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| | | | The trials of a post-apocalyptic New York and hedonistic Rome become one another’s mirrors and choirs in The Industry’s double opera Comet/Poppea. | Nereya Otieno |
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FROM THE ARCHIVE | | | | I learned to love Juneteenth long before I became aware of the emancipation of enslaved Black people. I think my father was his happiest on that day; he permitted himself to do whatever he wanted on Freedom Day. | Deborah Roberts |
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