Not exact matches
Over the course of the past year, amid the swelling «
Black Lives Matter» protests
across the country, my desire to understand how young people develop a social, political, and civic
identity has been reaffirmed and reinvigorated.
Please join NEP and the
Black Teacher Project as we partner to explore the crucial work of building relationship and understanding among and
across race
identity groups, with a focus on using racial affinity group structures in sustained collaborative work contexts.
Her work includes examinations of how
black identity is differentially constructed
across multiple contexts and informs achievement outcomes, how
black people's perceptions of opportunity vary within space and influence academic orientation, and how
black educational resilience and vulnerability is structured by social, institutional, and historical forces.
At a time when race and
identity became major issues in music, sport and literature, brought to public attention by iconic figures like Aretha Franklin, Muhammad Ali and Toni Morrison, «
Black Art» was being defined and debated
across the country in vibrant paintings, photographs, prints and sculptures.
Unlike many artists, this comprehensive exhibition was critically revered
across the country for its illuminating exploration of
black identity, history, and politics.
This Spring Kwame Asafo - Adjei, founder and artistic director of Spoken Movement tackles the concept of
identity within
Black culture and how it influences and exists
across space and time.
The unique voices of the artists unite visitors
across a shared American
identity — in this way
black unity is inherently American unity.»
Through this project — positioned on billboards in Toronto and eight major cities
across Canada — the artist critiques the lacuna of
black women from visual culture while asserting their empowered presence and
identity in the very spaces from which they have been historically excluded.
CREATED BY CHRIS JOHNSON, Hank Willis Thomas, Bayeté Ross Smith, and Kamal Sinclair, «Question Bridge:
Black Males» harnesses video technology to connect more than 150 men from across the country in conversations about black male identity and issues of race, masculinity, family and commu
Black Males» harnesses video technology to connect more than 150 men from
across the country in conversations about
black male identity and issues of race, masculinity, family and commu
black male
identity and issues of race, masculinity, family and community.