The Story of Us: Art Across the African Diaspora | United Nations

The Stories of Us sculpture exhibition features five large-scale “talking drums” that were envisioned and painted by artists across the African diaspora. They focus on the theme of resistance, spanning Afro-descendant communities’ roots, to emancipation, to the tradition of “good trouble.” The exhibition serves as an invitation to reimagine who we want to be, and to act in the spirit of unity. It runs at United Nations Headquarters from early March to the end of April 2025, bookended by the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade (25 March) and the Permanent Forum for People of African Descent (14-17 April).


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