Representation as Resistance: How an Activist Orchestra Redresses the Push-out of Black Practitioners from Classical Music
Eun Lee, Executive Producer, The Dream Unfinished
Ashley Jackson, Deputy Director, The Dream Unfinished
Eric Lemmon, Artistic Personnel Manager, The Dream Unfinished
Melanie Zeck, Research Fellow, Center for Black Music Research; Managing Editor, Black Music Research Journal
When The Walls Have Fallen and The Prophets Are in the Streets: Locating Sacred Song in Tight Times
Imani e Wilson, Independent Scholar
“Throwing Ugly”: Soul and the Organization of the Black Public Sphere
Wade Fulton Dean, University of California, Los Angeles
Black Representation in the Emerging Generation of Jazz Experimentalists in New York
Cisco Bradley, Pratt Institute
Black American Improvised Music and Community Uplift: Can #BlackLivesMatter Learn from the Black Arts Movement?
Luke Stewart, Independent Scholar
Jamal Moore, Coppin State University
The Performance of James Brandon Lewis as Black Matter(s)
Randall Horton, University of New Haven
Ankhrasmation: The Praxis of Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith
Ganavya Doraiswamy, University of California, Los Angeles
“Sorry/I Ain’t Sorry”: Beyoncé’s Lemonade, Southern Gothic Temporality, and Reclaiming the Angry Black Woman
Kimberlee Sanders, Harvard University
Transformative Darkness: Fear, Vigilantism, and the Death of Trayvon Martin
Abimbola Cole Kai-Lewis, NYC Department of Education / University of California, Los Angeles
Piano Performance, "Mother Emanuel: Charleston 2015"
Karen Walwyn, Howard University