On Collective Correctives to Mainstream Black Representation in Arthur Jafa’s Love is the Message the Message is Death (2016) 

Through employing a dialectical editing style, Arthur Jafa’s Love is the Message the Message is Death (2016) attempts to craft a comprehensive visual portrait of Black life in the US. [...] What Jafa ultimately ponders is if the mainstream, where Black images predominantly focus on celebrity, respectability and historic oppression can ever provide an accurate depiction of the complexity of Black life, and if viral videos created by the masses are enough to fill in these notable gaps in representation.