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February 5 - February 25, 2024
Our style of dress, the defining flair, stems from the desires of enslaved people—shorn of all individuality—to assert their own identity.
Today’s avant-garde nature of Black hairstyles and fashion displays a vibrant reflection of enslaved people’s determination to feel fully human through self-expression.
The improvisational quality of Black art and music comes from a culture that rejected convention in order to cope with constant disruption.
Black naming practices, so often impugned by mainstream society, are themselves an act of resistance.
Our speech and fashion and the drum of our music echo Africa but are more than African.
Black people suffered under slavery for 250 years; we have been legally “free” for just fifty.
