Artist Spotlight | Empathy Media Lab

Welcome to the Artist Spotlight series, where we explore the ideas behind the art illuminating and shaping our world.

African Artist Intellectual Property with Foza Fawehinmi - Artist Works

“You are also competing with the guy that goes on TikTok and eats 10,000 pieces of meat and is a superstar. Right? So Superstardom is no...

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Curtis Mayfield - The Makings of You (1970)

“The love of all mankind should reflect some sign of these words I've tried to recite. They're close but not quite.” Curtis Lee Mayfield...

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Michael Gene Sullivan of the San Francisco Mime Troupe - Artist Works

“Being an artist is a constant chase. But most importantly, never sell out. Because once you sell your soul, you can never get it back.”

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Prayer of the 54th Regiment Before the Battle of Fort Wagner - Morgan Freeman

“We want 'em to know that we went down, standing up!” Morgan Freeman delivers a powerful prayer during one of my favorite scenes in the...

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An Artist’s Duty - Nina Simone

Nina Simone was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, civil rights activist, and a revolutionary artist. I love her work. Rest in peace,

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Robert Frost Reads His Poem The Road Not Taken

“Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back..” Poem’s Meaning according to Ben Kageyama: “Robert Frost...

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No Time - A beautiful sad soul blues folk tune by Ronald Charles McKernan

"My poor heart can't stand no more, so why don't you just stop talking? If you gonna walk out that door, start walking." I heard this song o

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Chisenga - Global Hip Hop Artist, Producer, and Sound Engineer

“Sometimes I'll be feeling all alone…like, am I the only person that believes it? But I believe in it enough to know that where there's a wi

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My soul has grown deep like the rivers - Langston Hughes

“I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I’ve seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the suns

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James Baldwin on how Suffering is a Bridge

James Baldwin on how Suffering is a Bridge. The one thing you had to do, is try to tell the truth.

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Bill Fletcher Jr.’s novel The Man Who Fell From the Sky - Book Talks

Bill Fletcher pulls together history and mystery to create an exciting and compelling story of race and revenge.

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Quarantine with Rilke with Poet and Author Asnia Asim - Artist Spotlight Series

Asnia Asim is a poet and writer and her new book of poems, Quarantine with Rilke, shares with the reader an intimacy with the Self, a quiet

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Dylan James Brock Author of Roosevelt, Michigan - EMLab Artist Profiles

“The world works better when you try to understand first and then be understood. What I found throughout this book was that if I reduced...

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Grassroots Comedy DC with Chris Blackwood - EMLab Artist Profiles

Chris Blackwood is co-founder of Grassroots Comedy DC (GCDC), which sits at the crossroads of comedy and advocacy, to make humans laugh...

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