Why We Need Barbara Earl Thomas Now

by Jen GravesThe story of the storm, by Barbara Earl Thomas. Images JG
"Is it me or is there a Black arts explosion in the midst of this death cycle?"
C. Davida Ingram sent me that question recently.If you are exhausted and numb from the news, but still care deeply and don't want to drop out of this cultural moment of tangling with race in America, you should spend time looking at what these artists have made.
Days before Ingram's message, I'd seen Inye Wokoma's incantatory photographs, verses,