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• 1 2017-10-31T14:13:43-07:00 #40, challenge the narrative of (African) American progress 6 March 11, 2017 plain 2019-07-24T21:02:16-07:00 “In the Library of Black Lies, Edgar Arceneaux challenges the narrative of American progress, and in particular, African American progress through the selection, placement, and modification of books in a library of his own invention. Via this timely work, made last year, when fake news became ‘real’ news and the content of real news was interrogated, the artist presses for a closer look not only at what is patently true or false, but at the more complicated stories about our past that lead us to where we are now.” In conversation with Mark Marino, “he will also discuss the installation in relation to racial formation (the matter of black lives) and to the libraries of print (lies inked in black).”
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  • Black Lives Matter | Freedom & Justice for all Black Lives
  • Center for American Progress
  • 40 Years: The State of Black America

  To see a poetic response to this hardtruth:

  Now it's the receeding horizion of possibility