Rafiq Taylor 11/12/24 Rafiq Taylor 11/12/24

“Black Women in Media” Panel and Mixer Celebrates Impact and Resilience of Black Women in Journalism

Rafiq Taylor 8/29/24 Rafiq Taylor 8/29/24

Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes and the Echoes of the Red Scare

Rafiq Taylor 8/5/24 Rafiq Taylor 8/5/24

Tommy the Clown Transforms Culture and Builds Community through Krump

Rafiq Taylor 7/3/24 Rafiq Taylor 7/3/24

Kendrick Lamar Celebrates the West Coast in “The Pop Out”

Rafiq Taylor 4/12/24 Rafiq Taylor 4/12/24

Hip Hop Until Infinity: An Immersive Tour through West Coast Hip-Hop

Rafiq Taylor 4/9/24 Rafiq Taylor 4/9/24

California History Shines in Netflix’s “Shirley”

Rafiq Taylor 3/5/24 Rafiq Taylor 3/5/24

Occupied Space: The Secret Black History of Little Tokyo

Rafiq Taylor 4/14/23 Rafiq Taylor 4/14/23

LA’s Biddy Mason Memorial provides a powerful meditation on race, history and beautiful decay

Biddy Mason is on the fringes of public memory, but her LA memorial site exerts a steady presence in the city. Bass Fellow Rafiq Taylor reflects on how “nostalgia, capitalism, activism, and performance art” collide to create a beautiful decay at this locus of remembrance.