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
Support NIU Music scholarships and enjoy a 30+ year old Jazz Ensemble performance from the Rialto Square Theatre
NIU Art Museum annual “Art to Lend” selection period now open
Community School receives Wurlitzer Foundation Fund Grant
Music’s Bobby Broom to host a new jazz program on WNIJ 89.5
Michael Leeson ’24, shoots and scores for NIU Soccer and School of Art and Design
Commencement profile: Chih-I Hsiao, Master of Music
Re-imagining: Two popular courses have undergone redesigns with today’s learners in mind
Award winners announced in College of Visual and Performing Arts
A decade in the making, Music’s Brian Hart has edited the history of the symphony in the Americas
Honorary degree recipient to take part in Meet the Composer talk May 10