BLACK ARTIRSTS FOR FREEDOM

https://blackartistsforfreedom.com/

Black Artists for Freedom, “a collective of black workers in the culture industries,” issued a manifesto:

“Culture alone cannot fix systemic racism,”  “But culture is strongly connected to racism’s material effects, and the violence against us.”

“Racist stereotypes of Black criminality, monstrosity, unchecked rage, hyper-sexuality, immunity to pain, and so on, are still recycled today in books, films, and on the Internet,”

Consciously and unconsciously, these stereotypes are invoked — in everyday interactions and in courts of law — as reasons why Black people do not deserve human rights. We do not wish merely to modify or alleviate this racist culture. We aim to eliminate it.”

CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS ARE CALLED ON: