THE COLOR OF ART: Mapping white privilege in the nation’s capital. By Natalie Hopkinson, Ph.D. I am a scholar and writer, not a politician. So at some point I will write in detail about my most illuminating experiences serving the District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities. For…

Commissioner Hopkinson remarks at CVS Presser 9/14/2021 I delivered the following remarks today at a press conference at the Go-Go City Mural Unveiling at the corner of Georgia and Florida Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. I’m Natalie Hopkinson. I’m Associate Professor at Howard University in the Department of Communication, Culture and…

A WHITE SUPREMACIST ‘MESS’ No one living today created white supremacy, but today’s public officials must be held accountable for separate-and-unequal arts policies that tilt the scales in favor of the rich, white and powerful, while mostly locking out the Black and marginalized. I was hoping that with the outcome…

MY TERRIBLE TERRIFIC 2020 After a year of so much loss, I am thinking more and more about the short time we have on this earth, and the messages we are sending to the future. This year I said goodbye to Allison Ranelle Brown, a pioneering education civil rights lawyer…