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The Just and the Blind | Marc Bamuthi Joesph | TEDxPaloAltoSalon

1,625 views · Published 30 November 2018 · 10:15 · Indexed 5 October 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2018 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Listen to a poignant, powerful, and important spoken-word piece by artist and curator Marc Bamuthi Joseph.

This talk was part of TEDxPaloAltoSalon, Imagine Anew, held on October 28, 2018. For more information about TEDxPaloAlto and TEDxPaloAltoSalon please visit http://www.tedxpaloalto.com. Marc Bamuthi Joseph is a 2017 TED Global Fellow, an inaugural recipient of the Guggenheim Social Practice initiative, and an honoree of the United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship. In pursuit of affirmations of Black life in the public realm, he co-founded the Life is Living Festival for Youth Speaks, and created the installation “Black Joy in the Hour of Chaos” for Creative Time. Joseph’s opera libretto, We Shall Not Be Moved, was named one of 2017’s “Best Classical Music Performances” by The New York Times. His evening length work, /peh-LO-tah/, was commissioned by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and was presented at BAM’s Harvey Theater as a part of the 2017 Next Wave Festival. His latest piece, “The Just and the Blind” investigates the crisis of over-sentencing in the prison industrial complex, and will premiere at Carnegie Hall in March 2019. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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