by B. Kelly | Oct 26, 2026 | Installations
I’ve been sitting with a list of names for two days now. It’s a page from a poll book: Appomattox County, Virginia, District No. 5, October 1867. In a clerk’s handwriting, in a book kept for colored voters, is the name Robert Statham. Turn back three...
by B. Kelly | Jul 3, 2026 | Installations
The country turns 250 this week. We are counting the same years, and we are counting them differently. Our newest installation, The Record and the Silence, is live now. It reads 250 years of Black America as a running account: the firsts that were won and seated, set...
