The Mission
furtherBlack is a digital media studio and production company born of Black Studies and oppositional thought.
Its vision is to carve out space for Black and anti-colonial thought in a time when institutions have turned hostile to protest and dissent, abandoning even their token gestures toward desegregation (DEI) to appease increasingly anti-Black states and societies.
The Origin
furtherBlack grew out of the ashes of the unsupported Institute for Blackness and Contemporary Countervisualities (IBCC), an independent platform for counter-hegemonic image-making, oppositional thought, and cultural intervention. The IBCC set out to produce images that resisted neo-minstrelsy and to bring forward a Black experience as subject — not as sidekick, and not trapped in the permanent position of begging to be “recognized for our contributions to national life.”
Today, furtherBlack continues that mission, adding a commitment to confront the state emboldened anti-Blackness of the new era — the so-called “anti-woke” neo-segregationist global movement.
About the Founder
Yannick Giovanni Marshall is a writer and scholar of Black and anti-colonial thought, currently in political exile after leaving his faculty post at CalArts. He has published widely in Al Jazeera, Middle East Eye, and Current Affairs, and has spoken internationally on radical anti-racist resistance and the supplicating university. `His latest book The End of Supplication is available at published Bloomsbury/Zed Press. For more, visit yannickgiovannimarshall.net