to parts of the world, black doesn’t matter.

history taught us that.

This is the first part of a double book that follows the journey of the African diaspora in America and the progress that we have made as a race. Starting with black don’t matter., the reader is met with the harsh yet honest prologue, a punitive description of what the color black is connoted with and how those connotations hindered black people then and now. Afterward, 55 skillfully curated photographs tell the chronological story African people as they are forced to make their way to America. In parallel with the text, the images highlight the Black figures in the image with dynamic, brightly tinted, angular overlays to contrast with their veiled position in American society at the time. As the reader navigates through the book, the overlays change in hue signifying the spectrum of colors related to the concept of being colored in a white society. By the end of matter, the reader is in current-day America, a place that is not so different than the past.

What if america loved black people as much as they love black culture?

Inquiring minds want to know.

The second part of the double book is a colorful yet personal departure from black don’t matter. entitled The Divine Vibrancy. The cover has purposely misspelled words to highlight the incorrect information that surrounds the black experience and how unnoticeable these stereotypes can be from other points of view. Here, the reader is shown a modern take on the notion of being colored, being greeted with vivid documentation of the status of Blacks in our country. Paired perfectly with archived posts from the social media platform Twitter, the images are collaged onto brightly hued pages, echoing the overlaid design over the tweets. In all, the books paint an honest picture of the rough, gritty, and exhausting fight that was fought for us to be seen as not only citizens but equals.