Using the blockbuster movie Black Panther as a starting point, this conversation will consider the trajectory of black radical thought, activism and the black political imagination as it has evolved since the 1960s. The talk will feature Steven Nelson, Professor of African and African American Art and Director of the UCLA African Studies Center, in conversation with local artists, activists, and scholars to be announced.Steven Nelson's writings on the contemporary and historic arts, architecture and urbanism of Africa and its diasporas, African American art history, and queer studies have appeared in anthologies and exhibition catalogues as well as in African Arts, Architecture New York (ANY), Art Bulletin, Artforum, Art Journal, Documents, Journal of Homosexuality, Museums International, New Formations, and Politique Africaine.