WE INSIST! is a jazz and Black arts action community and an evolving project to convey a True history. WE INSIST! is intended to stimulate discussion, to exist in collaboration with the movement to protect Black lives, and to offer arts, educational, media, and business communities topics and possible positions on pressing intersectional topics such as: education, children, hiring practices, gentrification, patriarchy, sexuality, and the eradication of Black economic subservience and state-sponsored murder and brutality. Through the heart of jazz, WE INSIST! forges an anti-racist and anti-sexist path with the Black liberation movement.
Recent Posts
Annual Spring Dance Concert wraps up School of Theatre and Dance production season
Chicago Symphony Orchestra Young Artists Competition winner Jaden Teague-Núñez to perform with NIU Steelband
April is Athletes for Artists Month
Art History presents the lecture “The Largest Mystery: A Buddhist Shrine in the Art Institute of Chicago”
Renowned guest artists to join Reggie Thomas for final performances
Music’s Ben Wahlund earns NIU Excellence in Undergraduate Instruction Award
School of Art and Design hosts Artifical Intellingence in Visual Arts Symposium, April 12
Encountering a Global Sounding World – 2024 World Music Festival
Something for everyone this April in the College of Visual and Performing Arts
Spring Percussion Ensemble concert features premiere of Russell Hartenberger’s “REQUIEM”