Culture
How the sixteen values appear in film, TV, books, music, myth, history, and art.
Kara Walker's Cut-Paper Silhouettes
Black figures in silhouette, enacting scenes from slavery with precision and scale. Liberation art that refuses the consolations of distance - the horror is life-sized, on the gallery wall, not behind glass.
Faith Ringgold's Tar Beach
A girl on a Harlem rooftop, dreaming herself free above the George Washington Bridge. Liberation as the imagination that outflies the constraints of the world below.
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.
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.