Month: May 2023

  • Weekend Playlist

    Weekend Playlist

    “The way I start a piece is that the materials turn me on . . . I find an object and then it hangs around and it hangs around before I get an idea on how to use it.” -Betye Saar, artist. Apollo Magazine interview, November 2019.

  • June Jordan on Black English

    June Jordan on Black English

    “The syntax of a sentence equals the structure of your consciousness.” -June Jordan. From her essay, “Nobody Mean More to Me Than You and the Future Life of Willie Jordan.” In June Jordan’s university course, “The Art of Black English,” Jordan and her students explored Black English as a unique living language, “a system constructed…