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

Gabriel Wade, ’24 advances to finals of Ryan Anthony Memorial Trumpet Competition

Commencement Profile: Skye McCord, BS Anthropology and Art History

Arman Sangalang, ’22 earns Luminarts Jazz Fellowship

Commencement Profile: Connor Butler, MM Percussion Performance

Commencement Profile: Antonio Horn, BFA Acting

Music’s Pharez Whitted inducted into Indianapolis Jazz Foundation Hall of Fame

Luminarts Jazz Improvisation fellowship finalists include NIU Music alumni Gabriel Wade and Arman Sangalang

From NIU to the Ivy League, Skye McCord to study archaeology at Cornell University

Art and Design students research how high school art teachers are using AI

Music alumna Alexis Lamb appointed to EMU faculty