Hello, everyone. My name is Lasana Kazembe. I'm an assistant professor in the IUPUI School of Education and in the IUPUI Africana Studies Program. My research project is entitled Elevate Exploring Global Black Arts movements. Elevate is a language arts pedagogy, a historical interrogation, and a curriculum intervention that examines the literature, the visual culture, the audio politics, aesthetic foundations, and political thrust of six 20th century Global Black Arts movements. As counter movements against imperialism, global Black arts movements evolved as fugitive spaces for cultural autonomy, empowerment, and remembering, as well as Pan African solidarity. As an African centered research paradigm, Elevate situates Black art as art, ART, a revolutionary tool for radical, social and cultural transformation, for principle, truth telling, for edutainment, and for human liberation. In addition, with its emphasis on the culturally affirming literature of 20th century global Black arts movements, the Elevate program enables students to leverage the power of the arts and humanities to develop, fortify and expand geo literacy competencies and their cultural knowledge. As a curriculum intervention, elevate situates global Black arts movements as counternarratives, to reclaim and teach a usable past and to develop cultural, aesthetic, and critical media literacies.