Community Conversations: Culture as Resistance

Purpose & Emphasis

This conversation explores how culture functions as a form of resistance and survival. Through music, storytelling, movement, and visual art, Roxbury residents have preserved identity, nurtured belonging, and fueled movements for justice and liberation. Speakers will reflect on the role of creative expression in shaping community power and collective memory.

Speakers

Akili Jamal Haynes

Roxbury-based community arts organizer and cultural worker whose work centers Black identity, creative expression, and community healing. His practice weaves together art, history, and place as tools for empowerment and resistance.

Dayenne (D) Walters