The Black Body Curve honors the Ancestors, seeks wisdom from elders and calls on the legacy of Black Artists, especially Black Poets, to seek, invent, cultivate and uphold a Black Aesthetic, a way of seeing Black Bodies / Black-ness that actively contests the impoverished historical and contemporary narratives so freely available in the public domain.

Pictured: A man named Renty, a formerly enslaved human and esteemed ancestor. His image, and its imperative to “Channel History,” is relevant to the understanding that the May 13, 1985 bombing of the Africa Family did not happen in a vacuum, but as an inevitable circumstance in a lineage of systemic racism and institutionalized violence against Black People / Black Bodies.

They tried to bury us. They did not know we were seeds. —Unknown