DOC WEEK SHORTS: WEARING DIVERSITY HISTORY

RIP T-SHIRTS

RIP T-SHIRTS takes an intimate look at gun violence, and the aftermath it has on young teenagers, through the eyes of a T-shirt shop owner just outside Washington, D.C. Each day, families and friends of recently murdered young Black people visit Jonathan Robinson's shop, commissioning wearable tributes to their loved ones.

KING PHILIP’S BELT: A STORY OF WAMPUM

For the first time in almost over 300 years the Mashpee and Aquinnah Native Wampanoag people are weaving a new ceremonial wampum belt in hopes this belt will "call out" to the legendary belt once worn by Sachem King Philip (Metacom). After, Metacom's death at the hands of colonists in 1676, his belt was sent to the King of England but never arrived. Was it lost to history or does it still exist?