On Juneteenth

Everything I know about Juneteenth…

I learned from this teach-in by Dr. Michelle B. Taylor:

If you are reading this, I highly encourage you to join her Patreon. Dr. Taylor has been sharing knowledge and creating educational content for yearssss across many social platforms. I've learned so much from her.

Juneteenth and I am thinking about Samella Lewis

In a video post, I spoke about the reason why I started Pepper Scotch, but who made me believe it was possible to create an actual place for people to imagine a new digital paradigm was Samella Lewis.

Samella Lewis is a giant in the history of African-American art. She dedicated her professional life to supporting Black art and art history and audiences for Black art. A trained artist and art historian, Lewis created a publishing company, founded a gallery and then later a museum; she produced and distributed films. The breadth, inventiveness, and longevity of her projects, most launched between 1969 and 1978, is astonishing.

I learned about Samella Lewis from the lovely book, South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s by Kellie Jones.