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Aaron Grad shares his perspective onf why we need Many Messiahs, a concert for racial justice featuring artists from different musical worlds drawing inspiration from Handel’s Messiah.

Artists Monica Rojas-Stewart, Taina Asili, Sonny Singh and Darian Dachaun discuss Many Messiahs — a revolutionary take on Handel’s 300-year-old masterpiece that transforms an ancient tale of a savior into an urgent call to action.

An Oscar-winning Indigenous artist who rose to prominence in New York’s Greenwich Village folk music scene, Buffy Sainte-Marie has had a six-decade groundbreaking career as a singer-songwriter, social activist, educator and artist. This timeline explores Sainte-Marie’s life and the major milestones in her career.

Buffy Sainte-Marie is a living legend and a musical genius. But she’s also “Buffy who?” to a lot of people who have never heard of her before.

Experience the story of the Oscar-winning Indigenous artist from her rise to prominence in New York’s Greenwich Village folk music scene through her six-decade groundbreaking career as a singer-songwriter, social activist, educator and artist.

The Aten was the name for the sun disc deity in Ancient Egypt. The term is best known to us because of Pharaoh Akhenaten’s “Hymn to the Aten” or “Hymn to the Sun”, often cited as the earliest surviving example of African poetry.

"Some call me a soul sonic superstar," says Jomama Jones, the alter ego of TED Fellow and theater artist Daniel Alexander Jones. In this stunning talk and performance, Jomama Jones invites us to consider how coming undone can be the first step toward transformation. It's a powerful story of community, growth and renewal -- and how breaking apart can mean breaking open.

Daniel Alexander Jones is a tremendous artist. Whether he is channeling Jomama Jones, writing fierce, strange and poetic plays, or creating altar spaces as installation art, Jones brings his capacious, vulnerable, and responsive heart forth as an offering to his lineage and his audience.  

The South African choreographer Robyn Orlin mixes culture and politics with the help of the stunning performance artist Albert Silindokuhle Ibokwe Khoza.

In this video, Catherine Cole, Professor of English and Dance, shares her perspective about South African choreographer Robyn Orlin’s work