Dr. Hordge-Freeman co-organized with Monica Narain a pilot of the USF African American Read-In at Lomax Elementary. They impacted over 250 students thanks to USF faculty and staff volunteers including Frank Prytle, Gevie Robinson, Iyeshia Lowman, Clara Buie, Ashley Metelus, Jenelle Bell, Veronica Maxwell, and LaTosha Thomas. Special thanks to Monica Narain, Principal Jacobson, and…
“They beckon from the walls in the galleries at Creative Pinellas: beautiful Black men, women and children, intertwined with plants and flowers as if they are morphing together. And although they look photorealistic, they were created with artificial intelligence.”
From a botanical paradise laden with richly hued figures to an otherworldly futuristic sci-fi cosmos, this exhibition invites viewers to engage in the act of collective dreaming as a social intervention, which moves beyond the reality of the present world to (re)-imagine and discover new ways of seeing and being. Inspired by Black speculative fiction…
There were 40 members of the USF Black Employee Steering Committee, Black Faculty and Staff Association, Council on Black Affairs, and Alianza Latina in attendance
