Founded in Philadelphia in 2007, The Brothers' Network is an expansion of the Harlem Renaissance and The Black Arts Movement. We bring together artists, intellectuals, thinkers, writers, and the community at large for dialogue and discourse using art to provide cultural change to eliminate the dangers of a single narrative about Black Men.
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The Brothers’ Network melds artistic, archival, editorial, and curatorial practices to signify, solidify, and sustain the humanity of Black men, globally.
Actors - Prtizker Award Architects- Art Collectors - Artists - Booker Award Authors - Ceramists - James Beard Award Chefs - Choreographers - Coffee Shop Owners - Coffee Shops - Owners - Coffee Shop Proprietors - College Deans - Composers - Classical Composers - Creators - Curators - Cinematographers - Dance Company - Dancers - Data Scientists - Educators - Engineers - Filmmaker CBE RA - Founders - Glass Blowers - Glass Artists - Harpists - Heinz Awards - Hotel Owners - Intellectuals - Jazz Scholars - Jazz Musicians - Journalists - Opera Singers - Painters - Performance Artists - Photographers - Iconic Playwrights - Playwrights - Poets - Poets and Playwrights - BBC Presenters - Professors - Northern Europe Publisher Rep - Readers - Scholars - Sculptors - Shoe Designer - Statistician - Students - Tea Lovers - Teachers - Textile Makers - Theatre Patrons - Thespians - Thinkers - Wine Makers - World Travelers -
Actors - Prtizker Award Architects- Art Collectors - Artists - Booker Award Authors - Ceramists - James Beard Award Chefs - Choreographers - Coffee Shop Owners - Coffee Shops - Owners - Coffee Shop Proprietors - College Deans - Composers - Classical Composers - Creators - Curators - Cinematographers - Dance Company - Dancers - Data Scientists - Educators - Engineers - Filmmaker CBE RA - Founders - Glass Blowers - Glass Artists - Harpists - Heinz Awards - Hotel Owners - Intellectuals - Jazz Scholars - Jazz Musicians - Journalists - Opera Singers - Painters - Performance Artists - Photographers - Iconic Playwrights - Playwrights - Poets - Poets and Playwrights - BBC Presenters - Professors - Northern Europe Publisher Rep - Readers - Scholars - Sculptors - Shoe Designer - Statistician - Students - Tea Lovers - Teachers - Textile Makers - Theatre Patrons - Thespians - Thinkers - Wine Makers - World Travelers -
YOU
Actors - Prtizker Award Architects- Art Collectors - Artists - Booker Award Authors - Ceramists - James Beard Award Chefs - Choreographers - Coffee Shop Owners - Coffee Shops - Owners - Coffee Shop Proprietors - College Deans - Composers - Classical Composers - Creators - Curators - Cinematographers - Dance Company - Dancers - Data Scientists - Educators - Engineers - Filmmaker CBE RA - Founders - Glass Blowers - Glass Artists - Harpists - Heinz Awards - Hotel Owners - Intellectuals - Jazz Scholars - Jazz Musicians - Journalists - Opera Singers - Painters - Performance Artists - Photographers - Iconic Playwrights - Playwrights - Poets - Poets and Playwrights - BBC Presenters - Professors - Northern Europe Publisher Rep - Readers - Scholars - Sculptors - Shoe Designer - Statistician - Students - Tea Lovers - Teachers - Textile Makers - Theatre Patrons - Thespians - Thinkers - Wine Makers - World Travelers - Actors - Prtizker Award Architects- Art Collectors - Artists - Booker Award Authors - Ceramists - James Beard Award Chefs - Choreographers - Coffee Shop Owners - Coffee Shops - Owners - Coffee Shop Proprietors - College Deans - Composers - Classical Composers - Creators - Curators - Cinematographers - Dance Company - Dancers - Data Scientists - Educators - Engineers - Filmmaker CBE RA - Founders - Glass Blowers - Glass Artists - Harpists - Heinz Awards - Hotel Owners - Intellectuals - Jazz Scholars - Jazz Musicians - Journalists - Opera Singers - Painters - Performance Artists - Photographers - Iconic Playwrights - Playwrights - Poets - Poets and Playwrights - BBC Presenters - Professors - Northern Europe Publisher Rep - Readers - Scholars - Sculptors - Shoe Designer - Statistician - Students - Tea Lovers - Teachers - Textile Makers - Theatre Patrons - Thespians - Thinkers - Wine Makers - World Travelers - YOU
The Brothers’ Network is…
Actors | Pritzker Award Architects | Art Collectors | Artists | Ghanian Artist Venice Biennale | Ballet Dancers | Booker Award Authors | Ceramists | CEOs and Presidents | James Beard Award Chefs | Choreographers | Coffee Shop Owners | Coffee Shop Proprietors | College Deans | Conductors | Composers | Conceptual Artists | Contemporary Classical Music Composer | Classical Composer | Creators | Curators | Cinematographer | Dance Company | Dancers | Data Scientists | Dub Poet | Educators | Engineers | Filmmaker CBE RA | Founders | Glass Blowers | Glass Artists | Harpist | Heinz Awards | Hotel Owners | Intellectuals | Jazz Scholars | Jazz Musicians | Journalists | Opera Singers | Painters | Performance Artists | Photographers | Iconic Playwrights | Playwrights | Poets | Poets and Playwrights | BBC Presenters | Professors | Northern Europe Publisher Rep | Readers | Scholar | First Black Sculptor | Sculptors | Shoe Designer | Statistician | Students | Tea Lovers | Teachers | Textile Makers | Theatre Patrons | Thespians | Thinkers | Ugandan Art Collectors | Wine Makers | World Travelers | Writers | YOU
Upcoming Experiences Curated By The Brothers’ Network
Ralph Lemon’s The Fugitivity of Water | Lecture- Performance Friday, September 18th 2026, 6pm
TBN Continues its Partnership with Philadelphia Chamber Music Society | Sphinx Virtuosi Friday October 23rd, 2026
Sunday, October 4th, 2026, 7 PM, TBN Book Club Returns with Afropessimism by Frank B. Wilderson III led by Shane Johnson Online & In Person
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/71706502662?pwd=ai0asdhkLKFagU4Wuq5ITywMbd3Tih.1
Black Poetry Day October 17th, 2026 | Submit Now! | Moonstone Arts Center Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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“The voice of intelligence… is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.”
– Dr. Karl A. Menninger
2026/2027
Global Advisory Board
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Los Angeles, CA
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Chicago, IL/ Los Angeles, CA
Dwight White, MFA
Contemporary Artist
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Paris, France
Monique Y. Wells, VMD, MS
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Berlin, Germany; Paris, France
Roger Washington
Global Connector & Art Gallerist
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Harlem, New York City, NY
Contemporary Multimedia Artist, Adjunct Instructor of Photography, NYU Tisch School of the Arts
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London, England, UK and Philadelphia, PA
Oliver St. Clair Franklin CBE
Honorary Consul, British Consulate
Read more about Oliver St. Clair Franklin
London, England, UK and Philadelphia, PA
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London, UK and Los Angeles, CA
Colman Domingo
Internationally acclaimed actor, director, writer, and producer
Tony, Olivier, Drama Desk, and Drama League Award–nominated
Instagram:@kingofbingo
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Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Professor Tommy Curry, PhD
Personal Chair in Africana , Philosophy and Black Male Studies, University of Edinburgh
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Miami, FL
Marlon Johnson
Emmy Award-Winning Film Director and Producer
Marlon Johnson is a twelve-time Emmy Award-winning producer and director and a valued member of The Brothers’ Network Global Advisory Board. A Miami native, he holds dual degrees in Anthropology and Communications (with a Motion Pictures focus) from the University of Miami. His acclaimed documentary work explores music, culture, and social justice — including Coconut Grove: A Sense of Place (on gentrification), Breaking the Silence (on HIV in the Black American South), and Sunday’s Best (on Black women’s church fashion).
Marlon has served as Head of Production for Plum TV, where he earned his first Emmy. He later co-directed Deep City: The Birth of the Miami Sound, a festival favorite and PBS feature, and Symphony in D, an award-winning look at Detroit through music. In 2016, he received the top South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual Media, recognizing his excellence in visual storytelling.
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A new play conceived, directed, written, and produced by The Brothers’ Network. Funded in part by Black Theatre Alliance of Philadelphia.
Alain LeRoy Locke is heralded as the “Father of the Harlem Renaissance” for his publication in 1925 of The New Negro—an anthology of poetry, essays, plays, music and portraiture by white and black artists. Locke is best known as a theorist, critic, and interpreter of African-American literature and art. He was also a creative and systematic philosopher who developed theories of value, pluralism and cultural relativism that informed and were reinforced by his work on aesthetics.
