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Rikki Byrd

Rikki Byrd is a professor at Washington University in St. Louis, where she teaches courses on the intersection of fashion and race. She is also the co-editor of the Fashion and Race Syllabus.​

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Amy Sherald on Her “Gentle Presentation of Black Identity” and More

by Rikki Byrd May 24, 2018June 8, 2018

Sherald, who has a solo show at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, shares her reasons for painting and what’s next for her career.

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Mickalene Thomas Makes Black Women the Protagonists of Their Own Stories

by Rikki Byrd November 27, 2017November 27, 2017

Positioning black women — artists, actresses, characters, and her own family — as mentors and muses, and as heroic figures in a lineage of their own, Thomas overrides oppressive narratives.

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