Shameekia Shantel Johnson

Shameekia Shantel Johnson is a writer, curator, and researcher of Afro-Caribbean descent from New York City.

Books

Charting a Better World Through Malcolm X’s New York

A new essay collection contextualizes the activist’s life through the physical spaces that nurtured him, like Yuri Kochiyama’s apartment-turned-community center.

Art

Hugh Hayden Confronts the Black American Dream

Hugh Hayden’s works combine elements of spaces in which Black Americans gather, heal, and memorialize.