Kenneth Warren, Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of English and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture at the University of Chicago, discusses depictions of the African American experience in works by Romare Bearden, Kerry James Marshall, Lorna Simpson, and Carrie Mae Weems as part of the Smart Museum of Art's 40th anniversary exhibition Objects and Voices: A Collection of Stories (February 12–June 21, 2015).