For Such A Time As This in America: Angela Davis & Salamishah Tillet
About This Event
Angela Davis and Salamishah Tillet share a bill at NJPAC for For Such A Time As This in America, presenting work that sits at the edge of rock and pop while emphasizing spoken-word, dialogue and public history. Davis, whose recorded footprint is modest—she has an emerging Spotify profile and roughly 24,000 followers—builds momentum through argument, cadence and attention to audience context; Tillet brings a writer’s attention to language and structure, testing how music carries history and idea.
About For Such A Time As This in America: Angela Davis & Salamishah Tillet
At NJPAC, *For Such A Time As This in America* brings Angela Davis into conversation with writer and critic Salamishah Tillet in a live program framed by Rock/Pop-inflected performance. The evening traces how Black feminist thought moves between scholarship, protest, and the arts, and how those currents register in the present tense. For New York–area audiences, the significance is less about premiere status than proximity: Newark’s stage sits inside the region’s cultural bloodstream. One clear takeaway is the insistence that ideas have rhythms, and that rhythm can be an argument.
About the Artists
Angela Davis
Angela Davis appears on New York–area stages in a spoken-word register that sits at the edge of rock and pop performance practice. She has been presented at NJPAC, including the program *For Such A Time As This in America: Angela Davis & Salamishah Tillet*, where dialogue and public history shape the evening.
Salamishah Tillet
Salamishah Tillet is an artist working at the crossroads of rock and pop, bringing a writer’s attention to language and structure onstage. In the New York City area, she appears at venues such as NJPAC, often in performance settings that foreground ideas as much as sound.