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Manifest | Thirteen Colonies is the culmination of a multiyear journey by photographer Wendel A. White to find and document African American material culture in the libraries, museums, and archives of the thirteen original English colonies and Washington, DC. This “personal reliquary of Black agency and racial oppression stored in public collections” includes both singular objects […]

Across time and geography, wherever systems of domination have existed, they have been met with resistance. Those subjected to oppression have never accepted their condition in silence; rather, they have asserted their agency through organized uprisings, collective struggle, and quiet acts of defiance. The historical record affirms that rebellion, resistance, and revolution are not disruptions […]