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The Five-Percent Nation (aka) the Nation of Gods and Earths is a Black nationalist movement formed in 1964 by their founder Clarence 13X. Their influence is integral in the originals of Hip Hop culture. Connecting their human relationship to the…

During the first years of the Manhattan Project, coal from the nearby Cumberland Plateau was the only fuel used for heat. A coal-burning steam plant in Oak Ridge piped steam for heating through miles of overhead pipe to most public…

Originally only intended for 12,000 residents, the Oak Ridge site of the Manhattan Project grew to 75,000 individuals by 1945. Such phenomenal growth placed high demands on the city’s support systems and infrastructures. Consequently, much hard work…

There are so many layered depths to Grace Jones’s work. This portrait is a work in progress that is as many of newer works represents the drawing through the sample as a state of Black becoming, transcendence, and evolution. As I’m making this work,…