{"id":1304,"date":"2024-10-15T19:50:53","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T23:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/natm.commons.gc.cuny.edu\/?p=1304"},"modified":"2025-10-16T03:08:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T03:08:55","slug":"1304","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/2024\/10\/15\/1304\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being a sociology major, I witnessed how humans functions not only between one another in conversation but also as a greater community. I saw the effects that arise when people take advantage of the power they hold in society. Looking at the array of art pieces that were concocted during moments of agony, it truly showcased the urge to speak, a trait  inherent to us as a species. Many art pieces demonstrated the beauty with African Americans, especially during a time where a deviation from what\u2019s culturally accepted was not as well received. Similarly, the voices of the Indigenous Peoples whose voices were silenced have been preserved in these art pieces so accessible to us today. I thank the Brooklyn Museum for having these art pieces available to those who wish to maintain the importance of the marginalized, and many more thanks to the Macaulay team who brought us here to revel in the dedication pushed forward by many artists who fought to let their stories be heard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being a sociology major, I witnessed how humans functions not only between one another in conversation but also as a greater community. I saw the effects that arise when people take advantage of the power they hold in society. Looking at the array of art pieces that were concocted during moments of agony, it truly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9","category-reflections"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2053,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1304\/revisions\/2053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/natm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}