The From Slavery to Freedom Lab presented a two-day conference to explore iconic images and popular constructions of blackness in culture.

Rhea L. Combs is curator at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History & Culture.

This event was co-sponsored by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute as part of its World Arts speaker series; the Nasher Museum of Art; the Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts—Duke Arts; the Department of African & African American Studies; the Center for Arts, Digital Culture and Entrepreneurship; Duke Council on Race and Ethnicity; and the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies.