On Martin Luther King Jr. Working day, Visible Research Workshop launched its spring movie series, “The Spirit of Protest in Black Tradition.” Neighborhood media artist and activist Rashaad Parker has curated a selection from the VSW archive that presents a view of the Black knowledge in an The usa outlined by the Black innovative pressure that, as Parker writes in his curatorial assertion, “set the regular in the arts.”
Picked films take a look at the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s the roots of Jazz, blues, rock, and other musical traditions — now considered quintessentially American and a private portrait of a Black militant chief. That final movie, “The Negro and the American Promise,” files a well known 1963 interview with Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., and James Baldwin. It is crucial viewing.
“The Spirit of Protest in Black America” operates via Friday, Feb. 19, and can be viewed for cost-free online at vsw.org.
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