“Given that black folks make art and mar­ket it within white supremacist capitalist patriarchy, none of us can ignore the reality that any black person who wants to create a product with mass crossover appeal must do some serious soul-searching”

Debating "Art vs. Politics" at the Village Vanguard with LeRoi Jones, Larry Rivers, Archie Shepp, and Jonas Mekas

The coming age of the post-nationalist black aesthetic.

“He was the most financially suc­cessful Black visual artist in history and — depending on whether you listened to his admirers or detractors — either a genius, an idiot savant, or an overblown, overpriced fraud.”

Fred McDarrah’s photographs defined downtown New York.