A former staff writer, editor, and culture critic at the Washington Post y The Root, Natalie Hopkinson is an assistant professor in Howard University’s graduate program in communication, culture and media studies and a fellow at the Interactivity Foundation. She is the author of Go-Go Live y Deconstructing Tyrone (with Natalie Y. Moore). Her most recent book, A Mouth Is Always Muzzled: Six Dissidents, Five Continents, and the Art of Resistance (The New Press), is a meditation in the spirit of John Berger and bell hooks on art as protest, contemplation, and beauty in politically perilous times. Part post-colonial manifesto, part history of British Caribbean, part exploration of art in the modern world, A Mouth Is Always Muzzled is a dazzling analysis of the insistent role of art in contemporary politics and life. In crafted, well-honed prose, Hopkinson knits narratives of culture warriors. A Mouth Is Always Muzzled is a moving meditation documenting the artistic legacy generated in response to white supremacy, brutality, domination, and oppression. In the tradition of Paul Gilroy, it is a cri de coeur for the significance of politically bold—even dangerous—art to all people and nations.