{"id":20394,"date":"2020-11-09T16:47:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T00:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/?p=20394"},"modified":"2022-01-18T15:29:26","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T23:29:26","slug":"in-conversation-hank-willis-thomas-and-bomani-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/?p=20394","title":{"rendered":"IN CONVERSATION: HANK WILLIS THOMAS AND BOMANI JONES"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/BBJ-40-130_Miguel-PerezBO.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20395\"\/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\r\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">As a follow up to their article in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.vanityfair.com\/article\/2020\/9\/the-game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Vanity Fair<\/em><\/a>, Hank Willis Thomas and Bomani Jones discuss race and the appropriation of the Black body in art, sports, and advertising. Hank Willis Thomas is a conceptual artist working primarily with themes related to perspective, identity, commodity, media, and popular culture. For over 15 years, Bomani Jones has written on sports, music, culture, and politics for a variety of online and print publications.<\/p>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/br>\r\n\r\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Phillips Talks<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>November 12, 2020, 5:30-6:30 pm (EST)<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/2480a.blackbaudhosting.com\/2480a\/tickets?tab=2&amp;txobjid=acd15deb-b719-41c8-ae06-76847833c3b3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Online via Zoom<\/a><\/strong> (watch below)<\/p>\r\n\r\n<iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kFkjW154qn8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a follow up to their article in Vanity Fair, Hank Willis Thomas and Bomani Jones discuss race and the appropriation of the Black body in art, sports, and advertising. Hank Willis Thomas is a conceptual artist working primarily with themes related to perspective, identity, commodity, media, and popular culture. For over 15 years, Bomani Jones has written on sports, music, culture, and politics for a variety of online and print publications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":20407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[48,52],"tags":[102],"class_list":["post-20394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","category-commentary","tag-commentary","post_format-post-format-quote"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bomanijones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}