--- description: A special project, created in partnership with Ibram X. Kendi, that celebrates the power of Black art. title: The Renaissance Is Black: Celebrating the Power of Black Art image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta016cf036736f2e3/698a16e8929fad37c7bf7103/Bren_hubHero_5.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- ![](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta016cf036736f2e3/698a16e8929fad37c7bf7103/Bren_hubHero_5.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp) # The Renaissance Is Black A special project, created in partnership with Ibram X. Kendi, that celebrates the power of Black art ## Black Renaissance Articles * ![](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt88492613f8b40929/698a16e9929faddbabbf7107/ibram-kendi-black-renaissance-01-crop.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1) [Ibram X. Kendi: This Is the Black Renaissance](/collections/renaissance-is-black/5932842/ibram-kendi-black-renaissance/) byIbram Kendi * ![Awol Erizku's portrait of Gorman is an “indirect nod” to Maya Angelou. “It needed a layer of depth that only poetry can explain,” he says. “I was interested in allowing her to own the space that she’s in right now.”](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8bb2e13f1dcb1954/698a16f022fb85ed2fe2be82/AMANDA_GORMAN_AWOL_ERIZKU_001.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1) [‘Unity With Purpose.’ Amanda Gorman and Michelle Obama Discuss Art, Identity and Optimism](/collections/renaissance-is-black/5933596/amanda-gorman-michelle-obama-interview/) byMichelle Obama * ![](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt014cb85610eea9f7/698a16ea011682807e9804e2/defining-works-black-renaissance-01b.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1) [The 25 Defining Works of the Black Renaissance](/collections/renaissance-is-black/5932846/defining-works-of-the-black-renaissance/) byTIME Staff * [Black Art Is in High Demand. But Telling Our Stories Comes at a Cost](/collections/renaissance-is-black/5932847/black-art-chad-sanders/) byChad Sanders * ![The authors’ characters stick with them: ­Guillory wonders what her protagonist, written to live in her neighborhood, would think of the new pizza shop. And Woodson warns, “Don’t kill a character off. They will haunt you forever.”](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0523eec5fae36943/698a16e397cdff40686bba83/brit-bennett-jasmine-guillory-jacqueline-woodson-interview-01-featured-vertical.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1) [‘We Have a Right to Speak.’ Watch Brit Bennett, Jasmine Guillory and Jacqueline Woodson Discuss the Shift of Power Toward Black Women Writers](/collections/renaissance-is-black/5932843/time100-talks-brit-bennett-jasmine-guillory-jacqueline-woodson-fiction/) byAnnabel Gutterman * ![More than a quarter-century after the Black Panthers were portrayed in Forrest Gump as gun-toting ideologues, a new film, Judas and the Black Messiah, seeks to delve into their humanity and community-based activism. Daniel Kaluuya, at lectern, says resea](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd664146854333e05/698a16e2e76ad2311c638975/black-history-movies-01.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1) [Hollywood So Often Gets Black History Wrong. Black Filmmakers Are Setting the Record Straight](/collections/renaissance-is-black/5932844/black-history-movies/) byAndrew R. Chow and Josiah Bates * ![From Rihanna to Beyoncé, Frank Ocean to Solange and Anderson .Paak, 2016 saw Black artists at the peak of their creative powers responding to the world around them by getting more introspective.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltfad3b0d7ebb45319/698a16e122fb8529f6e2be58/black-protest-music-2016.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1) [How Black Musical Artists Revolutionized the Sound of Protest in 2016](/collections/renaissance-is-black/5932845/black-protest-music-2016/) byMarcus J. Moore * [The Story Behind TIME’s Amanda Gorman Cover](/collections/renaissance-is-black/5935798/amanda-gorman-cover/) bySanya Mansoor The Renaissance Is Black: Celebrating the Power of Black Art ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"CollectionPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/renaissance-is-black/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/renaissance-is-black/"},"headline":"The Renaissance Is Black","description":"A special project, created in partnership with Ibram X. 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