Wanda's Picks Rebroadcast Chicago's Wall of Respect

This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forbearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay! Today is a rebroadcast of an interview with Arlene Turner Crawford and Charles Blackwell, regarding a conference two weeks ago at the Chicago Art Institute on the Wall of Respect.