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All Power to All People, by Hank Willis Thomas, at Englewood Village Plaza, 5801 S. Halsted. Photos courtesy of Kindred Arts.
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Black Monuments: An act of cultural equity

by Isabel Nieves August 4, 2021August 5, 2021

n a time where we are reassessing what and who in our history should be memorialized, and just whose interests monuments serve, what might the future of monumental art look like? What is considered a monument? The national Monumental Tour attempts to offer some answers. “For me, the way that I understood the Monumental Tour […]

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