MV Art Studios: Empowering Creatives To Preserve Legacies
There is much to discuss regarding the preservation of the legacies of Black creatives. Firstly, the Black community experiences a significant loss of intellectual property and business opportunities, often due to a lack of planning and the failure to build institutions that can sustain these creative legacies. When we neglect to plan, we only delay the inevitable outcome: failure. Even within my own family, I see both economic and creative legacies being wasted because we fail to plan our estates before the deaths of our loved ones. I understand that it’s a challenging topic to address while we are still alive, but we must confront an unavoidable truth: we are born to die. None of us will escape this life alive. I mention this because I want anyone this applies to start the process of ensuring that the baton is passed to the next generation—our youth—who will ensure our legacies are preserved. Growing up, I lived in a segregated Black community in Toledo, Ohio. Despite the blatant rac...
