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These bee sculptures are creating a hive of dialogue about Blackness and collective action


Posted: Feb 22, 2021 1:00 PM ET | Last Updated: February 22
Cuckoo Bee, 2014, mixed wire with red and brown wool, 29x16x13 (Charmaine Lurch/Photo by Toni Hafkensheid)
Black Light is a column by Governor General Award-winning writer Amanda Parris that spotlights, champions and challenges art and popular culture that is created by Black people and/or centres Black people. While Amanda is away on maternity leave, a different writer will be featured in a guest edition of the column each month. This month s edition is an essay by writer and editor Nehal El-Hadi.
The music video for Wu-Tang Clan s  Triumph opens with an announcer delivering a Special News Bulletin: We ve just received news that New York City is under attack, she announces in a serious tone, by swarms of killer bees. The news report is accompanied by aerial shots of New York City neighbourhoods swarmed by bees, followed by footage of running crowds with digitized bees flying above them. It s one of ....

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