Harvard Crimson writer Kenny Gu covers Religion and Public Life's Religion, Conflict and Peace Initiative (RCPI) Fellow Taurean J. Webb's event, “A Home for the Human Spirit: Cultural Activism and the Moral Imagination in the Inherit Art Project.”
"In spearheading the project, Webb said he hoped to reimagine links between Black and Palestinian identities and highlight 'Black-Palestinian transnational solidarity and the shared joys and the shared fears.'
'While this project and this conversation isn't a move to kind of universalize Blackness or Palestinianness or exceptionalize them in these weird sorts of ways, it is an argument for and a project about constantly recasting and recasting and recasting and redeploying how we might imagine what I sometimes call these transnational resonances,' Webb said.
Webb said he hoped to build on the work activists and scholars have already begun in recognizing these connections and create a new 'entry point' for those who were not as familiar with Palestine.
'I wanted to offer them a place to enter, hoping that when they saw people who reminded them of themselves, and they aunties and they sisters and they grandmamas and they cousins that they begin to see humanity a bit more broadly,' Webb said.
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