Go Brooklyn: A Campaign for ‘Fearless’ Black Legends
Brooklyn, NEW YORK—Like promotional posters for the ancestors, Adrian Franks‘s latest series pays tribute to black change makers. Called “Fearless,” the works feature a slogan that is a double entendre, meant to be…
Buoy for the People: Nari Ward Interprets Martin Luther King
NEW YORK—A Martin Luther King Jr. street sign encapsulated in a glass contraption trimmed with some kind of curly silver rope? Considering that a buoy is defined as an anchored float that warns…
‘The Mountaintop’ on Broadway Imagines Martin Luther King’s Final Hours
“The Mountaintop” stars Samuel L. Jackson as Martin Luther King Jr. | Photo by Arts Observer NEW YORK—I just saw “The Mountaintop” starring Samuel L. Jackson in his Broadway debut, and Angela Bassett….
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Opens on National Mall
WASHINGTON, DC—The visitors—young and old, black and white—who came across the country and even from other nations to view the new Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial reflected the world the civil rights leader…
