From Harlem to the World
Founded in Philadelphia in 2007, The Brothers' Network is an expansion of the Harlem Renaissance and The Black Arts Movement. We bring together artists, intellectuals, thinkers, writers, and the community at large for dialogue and discourse using art to provide cultural change to eliminate the dangers of a single narrative about Black Men.
Arthur Schopenhaur, German Philosopher: Aesthetics of Music, Art, and Theatre
Born: February 22, 1788, Gdańsk, Poland
Died: September 21, 1860 (age 72 years), Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Arthur Schopenhauer was a German philosopher. He is known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation, which characterizes the phenomenal world as the manifestation of a blind and irrational noumenal will.
Jean-Paul Sartre, French Philosopher
Dr. Karl A. Menninger
Born: July 22, 1893, Topeka, KS
Died: July 18, 1990 (age 96 years), Topeka, KSKarl
Augustus Menninger was an American psychiatrist, author, and activist. He was a member of the Menninger family of psychiatrists who founded the Menninger Foundation and the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas
"The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance."
Born: June 21, 1905
Died: April 15, 1980
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (1905-?) was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, and political activist who was a central figure in 20th century French philosophy and existentialism. His work influenced literary studies, sociology, and postcolonial theories. Sartre's philosophy combined Marxism and existentialism, and was sensitive to the tension between individual freedom and historical forces.
Thelma Golden is an American art curator, who is the Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City, United States. She is noted as one of the originators of the term post-blackness. Curator of the Whitney Museum Exhibition “Black Male” (1994-1995). Her notable exhibitions include "Freestyle" (2001), which helped establish the term "post-blackness," and "Black Romantic" (2002). She also organized exhibitions like "harlemworld: Metropolis as Metaphor" (2004) and "Frequency" (2005-06) with Christine Y. Kim.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ‘The Danger of a Single Story’
Thelma Golden - Director and Chief Curator of The Studio Museum in Harlem
‘How Art Gives Shape to Cultural Change’
Born: 1977 (age 47 years), Enugu, Nigeria
Spouse: Ivara Esege
Education: Eastern Connecticut State University, Yale University · See more
Awards: Women's Prize for Fiction, MacArthur Fellowship
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian writer of novels, short stories, poem, and children's books; she is also a book reviewer and literary critic. Her most famous works include Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun, and Americanah. She is widely recognised as a central figure in postcolonial feminist literature.
