by Katy Siegel (Author), Kelly Baum (Author), Jack Whitten (Author, Artist),  Richard Shiff (Author), Kwame Appiah (Author), Kellie Jones (Author), Courtney Martin (Author)

Jack Whitten was one of the most important artists of his generation. His paintings range from figurative work addressing civil rights in the 1960s to groundbreaking experimentation with abstraction in the '70s, '80s and '90s to recent work memorializing black historical figures such as James Baldwin and W.E.B. Du Bois.