“Laying Flowers, Setting Fires” – Amir Sulaiman
Legendary spoken word artist Amir Sulaiman delivers a visual and lyrical meditation on Black life in powerful new short film, "Laying Flowers, Setting Fires."
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The Making of Malcolm X’s “The Ballot or the Bullet”
Sapelo Square History Editor Zaheer Ali joined the New York Public Library's Julie Golia to examine Malcolm X's handwritten notes for one of his most iconic speeches, the still timely "The Ballot or the Bullet." Together, they explored the context around the speech, and how
The Struggle for Air
It does not surprise us that “I can’t breathe” is the slogan at the center of massive global uprisings. At its core, we know that the existential war of Black life is naught but a more dramatic, visible form of the spiritual battle tasked with