We Wanted a Revolution

"Black Radical Women, 1965-85" is the subtitle of this terrific exhibition at The Brooklyn Museum.

The groundbreaking artists include mother and daughter pair Alison and Bettye Saar, Elizabeth Catlett, Lois Mailou Jones, Faith Ringgold and Barbara Chase-Riboud, (who, in addition to being a sculptor of huge assemblages, was the writer who researched and wrote the exceptional historical novel

Sally Hemings.)