Lecture: Nicole R. Fleetwood--"Black.Life.Matter"

Rutgers University Professor Nicole R. Fleetwood offers the Keynote Address “Black.Life.Matter” at the Resisting Arrest: Black Artfulness and Survival: A One Day Symposium on Art and Resistance hosted by the Department of African + African American Studies at Duke University. In her paper Professor Fleetwood ask, "How have social media activism and grassroots organizing created visual material and archives to enact black life as matter?"; "How do we mobilize the dead and the erased to reveal the lived experience of black subjects?" Professor Fleetwood's talk meditates on how the dead come to life, the unseen claim recognition, and the disregarded forms circles of love and hope through a declaration that black life matters.