Musician and singer Seanloui is making sure Arizona will be well-represented this Black History Month by expanding his Black Renaissance project with a podcast and compilation album highlighting local creatives that will release throughout February.
Seanloui started Black Renaissance in May 2019 as an event series spotlighting black creatives influence on mainstream culture, whether that be music, film or dance. Since forming, Black Renaissance events have taken place in multiple locations throughout Tucson, such as Hotel McCoy and The Screening Room, as well as Phoenix.
Now, the first episode of the podcast and compilation album have been released and are exploring the Black Artist community who reside in the Grand Canyon state. In the first podcast episode, Seanloui spoke with Marquez Johnson, a dancer and teacher at the University of Arizona (who was previously featured in the Tucson Weekly).
Amanda Gorman lands Time cover, interview with Michelle Obama
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Amanda Gorman Covers TIME Black Renaissance Issue
The poet laureate was photographed by Awol Erizku and sat in conversation with Michelle Obama for the special issue. Loading the player…
TIME magazine is releasing a special issue honoring the current expansion of Black culture and the arts which has been labeled a second Black Renaissance. The publication collaborated with author, educator, and activist Ibram X. Kendi to assemble the project which features National poet laureate Amanda Gorman on the cover.
Gorman, who made history as the youngest National poet laureate when she spoke at the inauguration of President Joe Biden last month, was photographed by Awol Erizku for the issue and sat in conversation with First Lady Michelle Obama.
National poet laureate
Amanda Gorman graces TIME magazine’s special issue honoring Black culture and the arts, dubbed the second Black Renaissance.
The publication collaborated with author, educator, and activist
Ibram X. Kendi to curate the project which features a conversation between Gorman and Michelle Obama.
“We’re living in an important moment in Black art because we’re living in an important moment in Black life,” Gorman said to Obama during their discussion. “Whether that’s looking at what it means politically to have an African-American President before Trump, or looking at what it means to have the Black Lives movement become the largest social movement in the United States.
Black History Month Specials Airing This February
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Networks and streaming services are celebrating Black culture with original educational and entertainment content throughout Black History Month.
Politicians, producers, podcasters, authors, singers, rappers, athletes, artists, and cultural commentators have signed on to appear in a variety of documentaries, concerts, special reports, and human interest features across various channels and digital platforms all month long.
Some, including the late Chadwick Boseman, Common, Robin Roberts, Grant Hill, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Dwayne Wade and 9th wonder are bringing their unique voices to this month’s offerings from behind the camera by producing, writing, and narrating some of what audiences will be taking in. They will explore diverse topics including the Black spiritual tradition, the ‘adultification’ of Black children, the restrictions of traveling while Black, systemic racism in the sports world, l
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