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Faith Adiele

Faith Adiele is a writer, editor, filmmaker, and critic based in Oakland, California. She has presented at documenta (14) and written about art and artists for Alta Magazine, Detour, the Miami Herald, OkayAfrica, O: The Oprah Magazine, and Smithsonian Folklife. She is a professor at California College of the Arts and co-founder/host of African Book Club at the Museum of the African Diaspora.

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NYC Exhibition Celebrates Black and Brown Lives Taken by Police

Avatar photo by Faith Adiele October 9, 2022October 10, 2022

At 1-800 Happy Birthday, payphones ring periodically with loving voicemails from families and strangers, and all the dates in the show are birthdays — “there are no deathdates.”

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How Do You Repair the Scientific Racism Embedded in the History of Science?

Avatar photo by Faith Adiele August 24, 2022August 24, 2022

Swiss-Haitian-Finnish artist Sasha Huber has spent the last fifteen years trying to undo her countryman’s problematic legacy.

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Enter the Universe of Black Womxn Artists in the Bay Area

Avatar photo by Faith Adiele February 1, 2022February 2, 2022

The Black Woman Is God, an annual showcase of Black womxn visual artists, has become a staple of Black Bay Area culture.

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A BIPOC Tarot Deck for Navigating Trying Times

Avatar photo by Faith Adiele December 27, 2021December 27, 2021

Tarot in Pandemic and Revolution reinstates tarot’s enduring ability to offer structure and guidance in moments of social unrest.

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30 Artists and Writers Savor and Digest Those “Lunchbox Moments”

Avatar photo by Faith Adiele November 9, 2021November 9, 2021

A group of food writers in San Francisco gathered personal essays and art from 30 contributors around the country.

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A Major New Exhibition on Afrofuturism Touches Down Right on Time

Avatar photo by Faith Adiele October 5, 2021October 8, 2021

This rich history is undercut with urgency, as gentrification is displacing Oakland’s Black population at a staggering rate.

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Wangechi Mutu’s Sly and Imposing Takeover of a San Francisco Museum

Avatar photo by Faith Adiele July 21, 2021July 21, 2021

Unlike Mutu’s Met commission, at the Legion of Honor, Mutu continues the reclamation processes into and throughout the museum.

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A Joyous, Sorrowful Archive of Birthday Messages for Lives Lost to Police

Avatar photo by Faith Adiele April 7, 2021April 29, 2021

1-800 Happy Birthday takes a simple yet ambitious approach to the epidemic of racial violence.

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