By Natalie Hopkinson, Ph.D.
Thanks to At-Large DC Council member Robert White for stepping up to the plate to introduce emergency legislation to rescue our nominations to the District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities (CAH). Thanks to his courageous intervention against the actions of the powerful Council…
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…
Build Banneker in Shaw as a Living Monument to Black Excellence
May 10, 2019
From: John Settles Jr., Natalie Hopkinson, and Lee Granados
Parents, Benjamin Banneker Academic High School
To: Members of the Washington, D.C. City Council
Re: Build Banneker — A Monument to Black Excellence
Dear D.C. Council Members,
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