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What is called the imagination (from image, magi, magic, magician, etc.) is a practical vector from the soul. It stores all data, and can be called on to solve all our “problems.” The imagination is the projection of ourselves past our sense of ourselves as “things.” Imagination (image) is all possibility, because from the image, the initial circumscribed energy, any use (idea) is possible. And so begins that image’s use in the world. Possibility is what moves us.
—Amiri Baraka, “The Revolutionary Theatre”, Liberator, July 1965
Gloria Browne-Marshall
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is a Professor of Constitutional Law at John Jay College (CUNY). She is the author of many articles and the books, including “Race, Law and American Society: 1607 to Present,” “The African-American Woman: Perspectives on a 400 Year Journey,” and “The Voting Rights War.” She is a playwright and a legal correspondent covering the U.S. Supreme Court. Professor Browne-Marshall is Chair of the 400th Commemoration Committee for the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH) and a member of its Executive Council. The ASALH Commemoration website contains a National 400th Commemoration Calendar of events. See ASALH.org/400/. Gloria Browne-Marshall coined the phrase “400 Years of Perseverance.” She speaks nationally and internationally about the African arrival in Virginia and its aftermath, from a prism of law and society.
John Jay College (CUNY), Professor