The Kentucky Freedom Struggle: a place-based exploration of civil rights in a border state

This incredible project, taken on by the Kentucky Center For African American Heritage, had two concrete goals. Firstly: a permanent… Read more The Kentucky Freedom Struggle: a place-based exploration of civil rights in a border state

No Still Life: D.C. artists look for new options to work amidst cycle of displacement

Originally published May 2016 On the first night of February this year, Aaron Martin marched his way to the front… Read more No Still Life: D.C. artists look for new options to work amidst cycle of displacement

Posted June 20, 2016 A few days ago, without warning, indie duo Wye Oak dropped a new album, Tween. It… Read more Embracing Radical Vulnerability: An Interview with Wye Oak’s Jenn Wasner

By Eli Fosl Earlier this year, Paulette Matthews opened her door one morning to see a man lying in his… Read more Barry Farm residents prepare to fight to keep and improve their home

Sorry guys, no room for jokes here, this is the serious stuff. On Wednesday, March 6, 1963, in the middle of what… Read more Lost John Coltrane album to be released by Impulse! Records

At the bar I find an old pair of over-ear headphones. They’re muted grey, one earpad missing. The cord is… Read more Album Review: World of the Waking State by Steffi

BOING… BOING… Can you hear that? The bells are chiming. The thurible swings back and forth. The mass is back… Read more Danish producers Why Be and Backtearer share new collaborative mixtape on Janus

“I’m only really out on the dance floor.” Sorry, that’s not meant to be a heady academic reference to gender… Read more Album Review: Where Are We Going by Octo Octa

On this week’s episode we chat with one of our fav baes, RON MARION! Ron is a black painter whose… Read more Before Anything Else Episode 9: #FuBu: Art and Black Exploitation