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WE INSIST!

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Picture of Benny Golson and Art Farmer with Harlem children, by Ted Williams

WE INSIST! is a jazz and Black arts action community and an evolving project to convey a True history. WE INSIST! is intended to stimulate discussion, to exist in collaboration with the movement to protect Black lives, and to offer arts, educational, media, and business communities topics and possible positions on pressing intersectional topics such as: education, children, hiring practices, gentrification, patriarchy, sexuality, and the eradication of Black economic subservience and state-sponsored murder and brutality. Through the heart of jazz, WE INSIST! forges an anti-racist and anti-sexist path with the Black liberation movement.

This is a growing BIPOC-led non-hierarchical world  movement of co-conspirators aiming to end white supremacy through honest collaboration, open dialogue, radical imagination, action, and the arts. Let's talk, start a chapter in your town, and change the world together. 

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Black Quotes of Inspiration

Claudia Jones

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Claudia Jones

Claudia Jones

“The Lady with the Lamp, the Statue of Liberty, stands in New York Harbour. Her back is squarely turned on the USA. It’s no wonder, considering what she would have to look upon. She would weep, if she had to face this way.”

James Baldwin

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Claudia Jones

James Baldwin

“The paradox of education is precisely this —- that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.”

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Ida B. Wells

“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, and it does seem to me that notwithstanding all these social agencies and activities there is not that vigilance which should be exercised in the preservation of our rights.” 

Barbara Smith

Stefano Harney & Fred Moten

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

Barbara Smith

“The concept of the simultaneity of oppression is still the crux of a Black feminist understanding of political reality and, I believe, one of the most significant ideological contributions of Black feminist thought.”

Robin D.G. Kelley

Stefano Harney & Fred Moten

Stefano Harney & Fred Moten

Robin Kelly

“So if you think of capitalism as racial capitalism, then the outcome is you cannot eliminate capitalism, overthrow it, without the complete destruction of white supremacy, of the racial regime under which it's built."

Stefano Harney & Fred Moten

Stefano Harney & Fred Moten

Stefano Harney & Fred Moten

Stephano Harney Fred Moten

“It ends with love, exchange, fellowship. It ends as it begins, in motion, in between various modes of being and belonging, and on the way to new economies of giving, taking, and being with and for and it ends with a ride in a Buick Skylark on the way to another place altogether.”

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