With his undaunted vision, Marlon Riggs could stir you like a force of nature brought down to human scale. His resonant yet controversial body of work, which includes Tongues Untied, Black Is…Black Ain't, and Ethnic Notions, was groundbreaking in its unblinking ability to address black identity. These videos served both as banners of social defiance and as audaciously original media works. Riggs was many things: a professor in the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley, a prolific media artist with poetic inclinations, and an unwitting spokesperson for black culture and, most particularly, for gay black men. On this tenth anniversary of his death, we remember Riggs's bold legacy by asking artists and academics who knew him to share their recollections. We will also screen his most notorious work, Tongues Untied, an enthralling glimpse into the lives of gay black men. Pulsing like a fevered heartbeat, this forceful work lashes out at injustice while it finds beauty in the struggle for dignity. Challenging a long-held silence, Marlon Riggs dared to speak the words that would conjure a life into being: “Black men loving black men is the revolutionary act.”