Originally from Kansas City, Missouri, Marion Johnson is a first-year Master’s student studying Public History and Museums at the University of South Carolina. Their research centers on the Second Middle Passage, one of the largest forced migrations in American history. Deeply committed to Black studies, Marion’s work draws inspiration from the politics of movement, identity, resistance, and Pan-Africanism. As an emerging scholar, Marion continuously seeks new ways museums can share the imaginative power of Black history.
On February 1, 1974, the Senegalese newspaper Le Soleil published a shocking headline: “Younousse’s Slashed Painting: A Simple Matter of Scissors.” According to the article, Senegalese artist Younousse Seye (b. 1940) discovered that her painting Mame Coumba Bang (n.d.) had been vandalized as she guided Ethiopian visitors around the second Salon des artistes sénégalais at…
