During her residency at the New Museum, artist Simone Leigh formed a collective known as Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter (@BWMforBLM) in response to heal one another, fight, and stand by Black Lives Matter.
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This afternoon was especially empowering. Poet José Olivárez and author Peggy Robles-Alvarado led the conversation in the first of the fall Poetry Town Hall Tour series at the Bronx Zoo. Olivarez is a poet and educator from Chicago, graduate of Harvard University and program director at Urban Word NYC.
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