Culture
How the sixteen values appear in film, TV, books, music, myth, history, and art.
Theaster Gates's Stony Island Arts Bank
A Black artist buying an abandoned bank on the South Side of Chicago and restoring it as an archive of Black American culture. Liberation as the reclamation of a building, a neighborhood, a history.
The Souls of Black Folk
W.E.B. Du Bois naming double consciousness - the twoness of always seeing yourself through the eyes of those who consider you a problem. Liberation begins with the language to describe what has been done to you.
Emory Douglas's Black Panther Graphics
The Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party made liberation visual and urgent - newspaper covers and posters designed to be reproduced, stapled to walls, and seen by people who had never set foot in a gallery.
Spartacus
A slave who led seventy thousand in revolt against Rome, refused the chance to escape alone, and chose death over re-enslavement. Liberation as the refusal to accept the alternative when it requires abandoning the people beside you.