The Korea Times
The relationship between art and justice is human dignity. In moments of societal upheaval, we instinctively seek the basics: food, water, safety and shelter. But we also require something equally vital but less tangible — art. Art serves as the essential “second responder,” offering us our humanity, a place to reflect and experiences of beauty, joy, challenge and risk, and sustaining us as we build and imagine our futures when we are weakened, broken and under siege. The Donald Trump administration is systematically defunding the very spaces where excluded communities have found voice and agency. It is gutting the vehicles that engage communities across the country in examining contemporary upheavals. The goal is to isolate populations and splinter power. Federal mandates targeting diversity or racial and gender equality have led to bans of or attempts to ban words, ideas, books and people. Recently, the Kennedy Center’s head of jazz programming and the last member of its social impact team were fired. Chicago is a national example of the deleterious impact of this agenda on t
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