American Book Award. Counting the blessings of 2025. Another connected blessing: moving into Jamaica Kincaid’s former @harvard office when she retired (last slide). The first dinner I had with a Harvard colleague was with her. She told me that she would never speak to me again if I didn’t write the book the way we both knew I needed to. It was a threat that coming from her was an act of love. We are all in lineage. What an honor to walk into this office where I learned about the award and know that I am hers. So grateful to the ancestors to whom I dedicated the book, to all those friends like Jamaica, and so very many of you. Surrounded by such support and love. What a gift I treasure.
American Book Award. Counting the blessings of 2025. Another connected blessing: moving into Jamaica Kincaid’s former @harvard office when she retired (last slide). The first dinner I had with a Harvard colleague was with her. She told me that she would never speak to me again if I didn’t write the book the way we both knew I needed to. It was a threat that coming from her was an act of love. We are all in lineage. What an honor to walk into this office where I learned about the award and know that I am hers. So grateful to the ancestors to whom I dedicated the book, to all those friends like Jamaica, and so very many of you. Surrounded by such support and love. What a gift I treasure.
American Book Award. Counting the blessings of 2025. Another connected blessing: moving into Jamaica Kincaid’s former @harvard office when she retired (last slide). The first dinner I had with a Harvard colleague was with her. She told me that she would never speak to me again if I didn’t write the book the way we both knew I needed to. It was a threat that coming from her was an act of love. We are all in lineage. What an honor to walk into this office where I learned about the award and know that I am hers. So grateful to the ancestors to whom I dedicated the book, to all those friends like Jamaica, and so very many of you. Surrounded by such support and love. What a gift I treasure.
American Book Award. Counting the blessings of 2025. Another connected blessing: moving into Jamaica Kincaid’s former @harvard office when she retired (last slide). The first dinner I had with a Harvard colleague was with her. She told me that she would never speak to me again if I didn’t write the book the way we both knew I needed to. It was a threat that coming from her was an act of love. We are all in lineage. What an honor to walk into this office where I learned about the award and know that I am hers. So grateful to the ancestors to whom I dedicated the book, to all those friends like Jamaica, and so very many of you. Surrounded by such support and love. What a gift I treasure.
American Book Award. Counting the blessings of 2025. Another connected blessing: moving into Jamaica Kincaid’s former @harvard office when she retired (last slide). The first dinner I had with a Harvard colleague was with her. She told me that she would never speak to me again if I didn’t write the book the way we both knew I needed to. It was a threat that coming from her was an act of love. We are all in lineage. What an honor to walk into this office where I learned about the award and know that I am hers. So grateful to the ancestors to whom I dedicated the book, to all those friends like Jamaica, and so very many of you. Surrounded by such support and love. What a gift I treasure.
American Book Award. Counting the blessings of 2025. Another connected blessing: moving into Jamaica Kincaid’s former @harvard office when she retired (last slide). The first dinner I had with a Harvard colleague was with her. She told me that she would never speak to me again if I didn’t write the book the way we both knew I needed to. It was a threat that coming from her was an act of love. We are all in lineage. What an honor to walk into this office where I learned about the award and know that I am hers. So grateful to the ancestors to whom I dedicated the book, to all those friends like Jamaica, and so very many of you. Surrounded by such support and love. What a gift I treasure.
American Book Award. Counting the blessings of 2025. Another connected blessing: moving into Jamaica Kincaid’s former @harvard office when she retired (last slide). The first dinner I had with a Harvard colleague was with her. She told me that she would never speak to me again if I didn’t write the book the way we both knew I needed to. It was a threat that coming from her was an act of love. We are all in lineage. What an honor to walk into this office where I learned about the award and know that I am hers. So grateful to the ancestors to whom I dedicated the book, to all those friends like Jamaica, and so very many of you. Surrounded by such support and love. What a gift I treasure.
American Book Award. Counting the blessings of 2025. Another connected blessing: moving into Jamaica Kincaid’s former @harvard office when she retired (last slide). The first dinner I had with a Harvard colleague was with her. She told me that she would never speak to me again if I didn’t write the book the way we both knew I needed to. It was a threat that coming from her was an act of love. We are all in lineage. What an honor to walk into this office where I learned about the award and know that I am hers. So grateful to the ancestors to whom I dedicated the book, to all those friends like Jamaica, and so very many of you. Surrounded by such support and love. What a gift I treasure.
Grateful. Inspired. Spared. Protected. Blessed.
Grateful. Inspired. Spared. Protected. Blessed.
“The battleground was not just politics, but it was going to be this visual landscape, and that we would disregard it at our own peril. If we didn’t think about the monuments, we weren’t actually getting to the heart of the matter.”—@SarahElizabethLewis1 What role do monuments play in shaping historical narratives? This is one of several questions posed by Hank Willis Thomas’s recent exhibition, “I AM MANY”, and discussed during the exhibition’s closing conversation between Thomas Harvard University professor and @VisionAndJustice founder, @SarahElizabethLewis1 at Jack Shainman’s Tribeca location. Head to the link in bio to watch the full conversation! #HankWillisThomas #JSG #JSGTribeca #JackShainmanGallery
How can beauty, fantasy, and design shape public perception? In this conversation between artist Tyler Mitchell (@tylersphotos) and Harvard art historian Sarah Lewis (@sarahelizabethlewis1 ), the boundaries between image-making and meaning are blurred. From iconic commissions like Mitchell’s @beyonce Vogue cover to everyday portraits that evoke legacy, lineage, and liberation, his lens has become a tool for empathy and transformation. Watch the full talk at the link in bio.
Deeply moved by the scholarship and community of the 2019 @visionandjustice convening, photographer and technologist @floriankoenigsberger asked a question: what would it take to make a smartphone camera that sees all skin tones in their fullest dignity? 6 years later, he reflected on the 6-year journey of building #RealTone, a computational photography innovation aimed at fighting #racialbias endemic to #photography by more accurately and authentically rendering all skin tones. Collaborations with a diverse cohort of image makers, hundreds of thousands of newly collected image data and a fierce commitment to restoring dignity to those historically marginalized by the medium have yielded a technology that has forever changed the way our phone cameras see us. To view Florian’s full reflection from Vision & Justice NOW, please see the link in our bio.
We have an obligation to not let work get reburied,” said Dr. P. Gabrielle Foreman (@profgforeman) at the Vision & Justice NOW Convening. “The work of justice, the work of art, the work of archives, the work of records, our records, our history, our movements deserve a home.” Watch the full panel, along with all the other sessions from the convening, at the link in our bio. Vision & Justice NOW is a collaboration between @visionandjustice and @the14thcenter.
At Vision & Justice NOW, Harvard College senior @tenzingundmorrow delivered a tribute to his recently departed grandmother, Agnes Gund. He shared lessons from the incomparable Aggie through select pieces among the numerous redefining gifts she acquired for her beloved Museum of Modern Art over the years.
“In the image many know of Rosa Parks, she is the silhouetted icon. She appears on the bus in Montgomery that helped launch the full force of the civil rights movement. The photograph was staged in late December 1956 just after the Supreme Court ruled that Montgomery’s segregated bus system was illegal… Parks’ only visible adornment is her hat, which to my young mind, when I first saw the picture, read as headgear—armor, a sign of battle. Enter Coreen Simpson. In her lens, Parks is not in a silhouetted icon, but a woman in the act of being adorned by one. In it Parks wears Simpson’s own Black cameo as a brooch on the label of her dark jacket. It is an image that diagrams what is necessary to do the work to move masses: to delight in life and to relish beauty….” Adapted from “Style as Political Statement” in Coreen Simpson (Aperture, 2024)
“In the image many know of Rosa Parks, she is the silhouetted icon. She appears on the bus in Montgomery that helped launch the full force of the civil rights movement. The photograph was staged in late December 1956 just after the Supreme Court ruled that Montgomery’s segregated bus system was illegal… Parks’ only visible adornment is her hat, which to my young mind, when I first saw the picture, read as headgear—armor, a sign of battle. Enter Coreen Simpson. In her lens, Parks is not in a silhouetted icon, but a woman in the act of being adorned by one. In it Parks wears Simpson’s own Black cameo as a brooch on the label of her dark jacket. It is an image that diagrams what is necessary to do the work to move masses: to delight in life and to relish beauty….” Adapted from “Style as Political Statement” in Coreen Simpson (Aperture, 2024)
“In the image many know of Rosa Parks, she is the silhouetted icon. She appears on the bus in Montgomery that helped launch the full force of the civil rights movement. The photograph was staged in late December 1956 just after the Supreme Court ruled that Montgomery’s segregated bus system was illegal… Parks’ only visible adornment is her hat, which to my young mind, when I first saw the picture, read as headgear—armor, a sign of battle. Enter Coreen Simpson. In her lens, Parks is not in a silhouetted icon, but a woman in the act of being adorned by one. In it Parks wears Simpson’s own Black cameo as a brooch on the label of her dark jacket. It is an image that diagrams what is necessary to do the work to move masses: to delight in life and to relish beauty….” Adapted from “Style as Political Statement” in Coreen Simpson (Aperture, 2024)
“In the image many know of Rosa Parks, she is the silhouetted icon. She appears on the bus in Montgomery that helped launch the full force of the civil rights movement. The photograph was staged in late December 1956 just after the Supreme Court ruled that Montgomery’s segregated bus system was illegal… Parks’ only visible adornment is her hat, which to my young mind, when I first saw the picture, read as headgear—armor, a sign of battle. Enter Coreen Simpson. In her lens, Parks is not in a silhouetted icon, but a woman in the act of being adorned by one. In it Parks wears Simpson’s own Black cameo as a brooch on the label of her dark jacket. It is an image that diagrams what is necessary to do the work to move masses: to delight in life and to relish beauty….” Adapted from “Style as Political Statement” in Coreen Simpson (Aperture, 2024)
What a beautiful season of life. With mighty angels Amy Sherald @asherald and Misty Copeland @mistyonpointe as we gave out the Du Bois medal at Harvard, flashing back to my incredible lion of a father receiving the Du Bois medal for his work desegregating Harvard Business School in 2018 from Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and President Drew Faust. (I know!!! My Dad…!!) ✨✨💫 @evephoto: Thank you
What a beautiful season of life. With mighty angels Amy Sherald @asherald and Misty Copeland @mistyonpointe as we gave out the Du Bois medal at Harvard, flashing back to my incredible lion of a father receiving the Du Bois medal for his work desegregating Harvard Business School in 2018 from Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and President Drew Faust. (I know!!! My Dad…!!) ✨✨💫 @evephoto: Thank you
What a beautiful season of life. With mighty angels Amy Sherald @asherald and Misty Copeland @mistyonpointe as we gave out the Du Bois medal at Harvard, flashing back to my incredible lion of a father receiving the Du Bois medal for his work desegregating Harvard Business School in 2018 from Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and President Drew Faust. (I know!!! My Dad…!!) ✨✨💫 @evephoto: Thank you
What a beautiful season of life. With mighty angels Amy Sherald @asherald and Misty Copeland @mistyonpointe as we gave out the Du Bois medal at Harvard, flashing back to my incredible lion of a father receiving the Du Bois medal for his work desegregating Harvard Business School in 2018 from Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and President Drew Faust. (I know!!! My Dad…!!) ✨✨💫 @evephoto: Thank you
