video still9:54Notting Hill CarnivalNotting Hill Carnival did not begin in 1966 — it began in 1959 as an act of racial repair.
video still10:12Republic of Montmartre (Paris)A charity masquerading as a republic—and succeeding precisely because it refused to take its own sovereignty seriously.
video still8:50The PantaloonsShakespeare without tickets, without theatres, without pretence—and with only one recording to prove it exists.
video still9:28Harlem Cultural FestivalA massive, joyful, Black-led cultural project that television ignored—not because it was small, but because it wasn’t made for them.