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...festival invited various interpretations of what it means to look back and move forward. This year, BAF began with a panel discussion about Black Art featuring renowned poet and writer Amiri Baraka, one of the central figures in the Black Arts movement in Harlem during the 1960s. The panel also featured two perspectives from a younger generation—spoken word artist Joshua Bennett and scholar Cameron Leader-Picone, a fellow at Harvard’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute. In defining Black Art, Baraka spoke of his experiences growing up in a segregated society and took an explicitly political...
While these events and exhibits undoubtedly focus on bringing Black Art to Harvard’s campus, BAF makes a point of celebrating diversity. To that end, Afari pointed out that the festival seeks to serve as a unifying agent for an audience far beyond the black community at Harvard...
...Harvard is multicultural... even though we are all unique, we are not separate entities. That is what multiculturalism is for me, and if anything at all, that’s what BAF is trying to achieve,” Afari said...
...consisted of a series of workshops in the arts for local high school students. These lessons are a part of BAF’s efforts to bring Black Art to a community larger than Harvard alone. For Afari, this inclusive spirit is one of the best aspects of BAF because “everyone can identify with it, no matter what culture...
Ultimately, however, this year’s BAF emphasized the individual experience as its central theme. In the spirit of “Sankofa,” the art featured at the festival drew heavily upon artists’ personal narratives and how those experiences pointed them toward the future. Whether it was Baraka reminiscing about the racial politics of the 1960s, or student poets spitting verses about their aspirations, this year’s BAF brought personal histories to the forefront as a means of moving forward...