[googlemaps https://www.google.com/maps/d/embed?mid=1vlRV41yW1F-revIk0G9BkMSg9mA&w=640&h=480] *My Google Map chronicling the Place Matters sites and boroughs I have visited during this fellowships.* For my storytelling project with City Lore, I had a lot of freedom as to which Place Matters sites I chose to research and interview at. The first one was The Bronx Music Heritage Center (BMHC), next…
Harlem
The National Black Theatre as an Archive
As I think about the National Black Theatre, Minnie Riperton’s “Les Fleurs” (1970) comes to mind: This song is reflective of similar black art sensibilities that are pervasive throughout the National Black Theatre; it is celebratory and freeing. This song reflects a newfound black joy, along with other forms of expressions, that came out of the Black Power…
