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ABOUT
Carlton Mackey is the Assistant Director of Education, Community Dialogue and Engagement at the High Museum of Art. In this newly created role at the museum, Mackey will use complex visual culture to strengthen self-awareness, frame productive public discussion, and engender institutional empathy regarding the fundamental issues defining contemporary society.
Mackey is also the Co-Creator/Co-Director of the Emory University Arts and Social Justice Fellowship Program. The Arts and Social Justice Fellows program brings leading Atlanta artists into Emory classrooms to help students translate their learning into creative expressions of activism in the name of racial and social justice.
Mackey is the creator and former Director of the Ethics & the Arts Program at the Emory University Center for Ethics and a Lecturer in Emory's Department of Film and Media.
Mackey is the creator of BLACK MEN SMILE®, a viral social media platform, empowerment movement, and apparel brand with a mission of “amplifying the revolutionary power of Black joy.” Mackey is the author of 50 Shades of Black: Sexuality and Skin Tone in the Formation of Identity.
As a community advocate, Carlton serves on the Atlanta Board of Education Ethics Commission, on the Board of Directors of Foreverfamily, an Atlanta non-profit surrounding youth with one or more incarcerated parent with the love of family and providing regular visitation, and the Advisory Board of The Alliance Theatre.
Mackey’s work blends his unique combination of social consciousness, creativity, scholarship, and social connection to create powerful impressions that invite new discovery and personal transformation.
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IN THE NEWS
In Atlanta, art murals including themes of civil rights, social justice and Atlanta culture are popping up all over the city. Emory professor / Black Men Smile Creator Carlton Mackey and Atlanta artist Fabian Williams discuss the role of art in addressing social issues and the use of social media in affecting community change.
People stereotype black men as more threatening and bigger than white men. Carlton Mackey, founder of Black Men Smile, describes the need to celebrate positive images of blackness, evidenced by black men using #blackmensmile to celebrate who they are.
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Hailed as one of the most recognized organizations for Black liberation in American history is the Black Panther Party. And as a symbol ubiquitous with the v...
Young Kings is a rites of passage course designed to nurture middle school boys' voices and invest in their visions. During each meeting they will engage in ...
Black Men Smile Creator Carlton Mackey discusses the importance of art that reflects the time it was created as well the role of the artist in movements for ...
Your donations to the Wine Auction support the many program offerings of the High Museum’s Education Department, including Art Talks Back. One of several programs aimed at engaging Atlanta-area teens, Art Talks Back is a monthly conversation that connects works of art to issues in ethics and current events.
The year was 1968. Just four months after Martin Luther King JR. had been assassinated, James Brown penned an anthem that would radically equip athletes, pro...
An introduction to the "Boundary Leadership" Curriculum Series as a part of my Doctor of Ministry Final Project to be released April 2017.
Rev. Lyn Pace (Chaplain of Oxford College of Emory University) provides an introduction to Boundary Leadership.
Why do we travel? What can be gained from a new perspective? To answer our integral question, "How do we see ourselves as black men," we need to understand what goes into shaping our perspective of ourselves. Listen as Carlton Mackey discusses the benefits of travel and the true purpose of the Black Men Smile® International Travel Retreats.
