"Black Spring" A Conversation on Grief, Joy, & Power with Phil Agnew and Samora Pinderhughes
grief sits beside joy.
power rises from both.
we’ve been cracked open and still we bloom.
join us for a conversation on what it means to feel fully, to dream loudly, and to build something beautiful in the aftermath.
art, memory, healing, and resistance, all in one space.
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Phillip Agnew is a co-founder of Black Men Build, an organization that is bringing Black men into the movement for racial, social, and gender justice — where he formerly served as the co-director. Agnew also cofounded the Dream Defenders in 2012 after the murder of Trayvon Martin and has been dubbed "one of this generation’s leading voices,” recognized by both EBONY magazine and The Root as one of the 100 most influential African Americans in the nation. He emerged as a national activist when he helped to organize students from FAMU, Florida State University and Tallahassee Community College in the creation of the Student Coalition for Justice, which was formed in response to the Martin Lee Anderson case.
Agnew is the cofounder of Miami's Smoke Signals Studio -- a community based radical artistic space. Agnew travels the country teaching and organizing outside of the movement bubble. He has spoken at colleges and conferences around the country and was a featured speaker at TEDWomen 2018 and SXSW in 2019. Agnew is member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. and a Board Member for Planned Parenthood Action Fund.
Samora Abayomi Pinderhughes is a composer/pianist/vocalist known for large multidisciplinary projects and for his use of music to examine sociopolitical issues. Samora has performed in venues including Carnegie Hall, MoMA, the Sundance Film Festival, and the Kennedy Center, and toured internationally with artists including Branford Marsalis, Christian Scott, Common, and Emily King. Samora is director/creator of The Transformations Suite, an acclaimed project combining music, theatre, and poetry to examine the radical history of resistance within the communities of the African Diaspora.
Samora is a member of Blackout for Human Rights, the arts & social justice collective founded by Ryan Coogler and Ava DuVernay, and was musical director for their #MLKNow and #JusticeForFlint events.