For those who say Institutional Racism does not exist we give you Exhibit A.

Here is a link to the CBS News Coverage of the event
https://youtu.be/fe6NTqzUKB8?si=2oG2QCEiTqU4ciYU

Here is a link to an article about Exhibit A and the SF HIp Hop Festival

https://www.kqed.org/arts/13978895/sf-hip-hop-festival-midway-san-francisco-black-displacement
Here is a link to the online magazine. For the downloadable version scroll down.

https://online.fliphtml5.com/bpjwib/jqfj/

Exhibit A San Francisco

On July 19, 2025 in partnership with the San Francisco Hip Hop Festival, E4E launched Exhibit A San Francisco. This Exhibition included renowned artists from San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area illustrating systemic Anti Black outcomes in the City. Included in this experience was the Second Dream Invitational and Black Book Session. Featured artists include Emory Douglas, Malik Seneferu, Ahmad Walker, Anthony Wilson, and a graffiti legends, Bukue, Pops, Apex, Deir and Omen2. As a companion to the invitational we facilitated a panel discussion on Exhibit A San Francisco hosted by journalist Pendarvis Harshaw. See San Francisco Hip Hop Festival for the Schedule of events.

Exhibit A SF Magazine

This magazine is a collection of visualizations commissioned by the San Francisco Hip Hop Festival and curated by Edutainment for Equity. Each visualization offers another perspective on the breadth and depth of systemic Anti Blackness in San Francisco. The featured artists include the former minster of Culture of the Black Panther Party and SF resident Emory Douglas, Malik Seneferu, Ahmad Walker, and Andrew Wilson. The magazine also includes a brief history of Black San Francisco, detail about the founding of Exhibit A in Oakland and in SF, and art from the Second Exhibit A Dream Invitational Graffiti Exhibition where writers from SF created new visions for the future of San Francisco based on the data.

We encourage you to print the posters and hang them on the wall at your institution, or use them to provoke deeper conversation about systemic anti Blackness and its effects. These visualizations are designed to arm advocates for racial equity with tools to counter those who suggest that institutional racism does not exist.

Exhibit A Oakland

In 2022 E4E launched a Data Visualization Campaign called Exhibit A. Exhibit A challenges the idea that Institutional Racism does not exist, by highlighting the racially determined experiences Black people are having in Northern California. Each piece is evidence of institutional outcomes and provides a prompt for deeper conversation about dismantling Anti Blackness. The pieces also feature digital interfaces, Augmented Reality experiences, and interactive workshops designed to spark conversation and critical engagement.

Participants are enlisted to engage their own friends through social media by sharing images of the art, and offering visions and forecasts for the future of Black people in the Bay Area.  Exhibit A recognizes that Anti Blackness is only one of many storms hitting Black people in the Bay Area, and incorporates visions of the future to ask questions about how those forecasts will impact or implicate Black life. This project has been developing to challenge the broader political mythos that institutional racism does not exist in the United States.

Exhibit A: Oakland is an Exhibition of various data points that illustrate AntiBlack outcomes in the city of Oakland.  Exhibit A features large interactive data visualizations and several artifacts of the future of Oakland illustrating trajectories impacted by both pro and anti-Black futures.

Exhibit A is also a music project produced and performed by Candice Antique in collaboration with many performing artists in Oakland. The idea behind the music is to humanize the data creating empathic entry points for people to see beyond the numbers. The music is embedded in the exhibition, but can also be shared independently in a live setting or as a recorded album. Exhibit A Album which dropped in July of 2024.

Exhibit A Oakland the Magazine

This document contains many of the data points that have been commissioned by E4E since the start of the Exhibit A Oakland project. Each offers another perspective on the breadth and depth of systemic Anti Blackness in Oakland. The magazine provides statistical information, visualizations printed in poster form, information about the background of the project, as well as a brief history of Black people in Oakland, California. Each illustration is a portal to an augmented reality enhanced experience that often deepens the dynamic impact of the art. Click the photograph to download this document and share it with others.

We encourage you to print the posters and hang them on the wall at your institution, or use them to provoke deeper conversation about systemic anti Blackness and its effects. These visualizations are designed to arm advocates for racial equity with tools to counter those who suggest that institutional racism does not exist.

WEB Dubois is the inspiration for the Exhibit A Exhibition.

Another Major influence on this project was the legendary Emory Douglas. Emory is an American graphic artist and activist, best known as the Revolutionary Artist and Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party from 1967 until the early 1980s. His work helped define the visual language of the Black Panther Party and the wider Black Power movement, resonating with oppressed communities globally. His iconic imagery and humanization of the experiences of Black people serve as central models for the Exhibit A Visualizations, using visual art as a tool to provoke social imagination and transformation. We have partnered with the SF Hip Hop Festival, The Crucible, and others to fashion an Emory Douglas Arts and Activism Award that will be presented to a deserving artist every year at the festival, both as a tribute to Emory and a public acknowledgement that his legacy continues. We were honored to include an original piece from Emory Douglass as a resisdent of San Francisco, in our Exhibit A San Francisco project.

The Exhibit A Town Hall on Anti Blackness was an evening event sponsored by the Department of Race and Equity and held at the Oakland Museum on March 14, 2024. This event was primarily for city workers to be introduced to the project, and included an exhibition of the visualizations, exclusive live performances of some of the songs and engaging conversation about AntiBlackness in and the future of Oakland. The event also included an short conversation between legendary Bay Area Journalist DJ Davey D, and Exhibit A Lead Artist and Producer Hodari B. Davis.

Part of this conversation was captured and broadcast on Hard Knock Radio on March 15, 2024, which you can access HERE.

Exhibit A Oakland Townhall 2 was a critical component of the Arts for Everybody No Place Like the Town Event on July 2024. This event featured a second Oakland Town Hall, live performances of music from the Soul of Oakland and a Survival Conference at Frank Ogawa Plaza which featured Free Breakfast, Live performances, Health and Wellness vendors and many special guests. This event marked the expansion of Exhibit A with the commissioned of a new series of visualizations illustrating data about the harmful and deadly impacts of the freeway system cutting through the city of Oakland.

Partners for this experience included: No Place Like the Town, BAMCDC, Oakland Central, Arts for Everybody, and several local collaborators.