‘Artists are still crossing those boundaries.’ Dr. Minkah Makalani on the legacy of the Harlem Renaissance

You can't tell the story of art and social change without visiting the brilliant minds of the Harlem Renaissance. For Dr. Minkah Makalani, Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University, that's an area of particular interest and scholarship. He joins us to illustrate how the co-mingling of art and politics was present then, and draw a throughline to how artists and creators interact with our political systems today.Learn more about Dr. Makalani’s work here.This season of Race Unwrapped is supported by the Kentucky Center for African American Heritage, and by our listeners. Click here to help make this work possible (and we’ll send you a Race Unwrapped sticker)!