Blax Museum

Michelle R. Smith (BLAX Museum creator, producer & host) honors voting rights & women’s rights activist, Fannie Lou Hamer

Caira Lee (poet, writer & filmmaker) honors poet, author & civil rights activist, Maya Angelou

Middle Child (poet & spoken word artist) honors poet, social activist, novelist, playwright & columnist, Langston Hughes

Dr. Brenda R. Smith, Ph.D. (English Professor Emerita) honors poet, writer, commentator & activist, Nikki Giovanni

Danielle Nicole Nikki Dixon (poet, writer & painter) honors coerced quadroon concubine of Thomas Jefferson, Sarah “Sally” Hemings

This performance was sadly not fully captured on film, but including a link for a later performance of the same piece so you can still watch it.

Messiah in Glytch (producer, musician & writer) honors doctor, occultist, spiritualist, trance medium & writer, Paschal Beverly Randolph

Essence (poet & E.V.E. - Eccentric Visions of Evolution - founder) honors political & feminist activist, philosopher, academic & author, Angela Y. Davis

James Quarles (painter, poet & musician) introduces a video documenting his painting of musician, singer, and record producer, Sly Stone

Rosary Joyce Kennedy (poet & educator) honors legendary educator & founder of Westside Preparatory School, Marva Collins

Chimi (fine artist) honors singer, songwriter, pianist, composer & Civil Rights activist Nina Simone with a cover of “Blackbird”

Josiah Quarles (community organizer, poet & rapper) honors sociologist, socialist, historian & Pan-African Civirl Rights activist, W.E.B. Du Bois