Black Powerful: Black Voices Reimagine Revolution (Hardcover)
Featuring a foreword by Jason Reynolds. Award-winning viral curator and poet Natasha Marin follows up her acclaimed Black Imagination with a brilliant new collection of sharply rendered, breathtaking reflections from more than one hundred Black voices. When do you feel most indigenous?
What does it sound like when you claim yourself?
When do you feel most powerful? Black Powerful explores the monumental resilience, joy, and triumph of Black People everywhere.
What does it sound like when you claim yourself?
When do you feel most powerful? Black Powerful explores the monumental resilience, joy, and triumph of Black People everywhere.
Natasha Marin is a conceptual artist whose people-centered projects have circled the globe and have been recognized and acknowledged by Art Forum, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the LA Times, and others. In 2018, Marin manifested BLACK IMAGINATION: The States of Matter, The (g)Listening, and Ritual Objects-- a triptych of audio-based, conceptual art exhibitions in and around Seattle, WA. BLACK IMAGINATION is community-based, ongoing and continues to amplify, center, and hold sacred a diverse sample of Black voices including LGBTQIA+ black youth, incarcerated black women, black folks with disabilities, unsheltered black folks, and black children. Marin's viral web-based project, Reparations, engaged a quarter of a million people worldwide in the practice of leveraging privilege, and earned Marin, a mother of two, death threats by the dozens. This is how she healed herself. + www.black-imagination.com