Last week I did an Instagram Live session with Badir McCleary the founder of Art Above Reality . Badir and I met first at a session he participated in around an exhibition at the Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD) entitled Digitalia: Art & the Economy of Ideas (2018), curated by Lady Phoenix . Badir and I met again later that year at Miami Beach in the UNTITLED tents. In the video here below we talk about a lot of subjects, including my going on a bit about Michael Eric Dyson's writing about Jay Z; and I get *really* excited about Paula Cooper. I got my copy of Jay Z: Made in America at Marcus Books, an independent, Black-owned bookstore in Oakland. You can support their Go Fund Me campaign here . A link to the Paula Cooper article " ‘I’ve always been wary of big business" is here ; as well as one to the Magda Sawon article " This Is the Toughest Challenge My Business Has Ever Faced. But Here's Why Small Galleries Like Mine Will Come Out Alive,&q