CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 2/1/2019

It's NATION TIME! Celebrate Black History Month with 'Soul of a Nation'

“Wake Up” (1971) by Gerald Williams is reproduced from Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, published to accompany the blockbuster international traveling exhibition currently on view at the Brooklyn Museum. Williams was one of the original members of AfriCOBRA (the African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists), whose manifesto in part read, “It’s NATION TIME and we are now searching. Our guidelines are our people—the whole family of African people, the African family tree. And in this spirit of familyhood, we have carefully examined our roots and searched our branches for those visual qualities that are more expressive of our people/art.” See more Staff Picks for Black History Month here!