About the Author

Naomi Beckwith will take up the position of deputy director and senior curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York in June 2021.Thelma Golden is Director of The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York. Chrissie Iles is a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.Kellie Jones is Professor in Art History and Archaeology and theInstitute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University.