From Selma to corporate America to the launch of his own ventures, Maurice Cherry has faced extreme adversity and emerged as a brilliant mind at the forefront of design.

Just over fifty years ago, at the apex of the civil rights movement in the US, Dorothy Jackson interviewed five Black designers about “the frustrations and opportunities in a field where ‘flesh-colored’ means pink”. The article for Print was perhaps the first in the mainstream trade press to directly address the impacts of racism in the profession and describe the experience of Black practitioners in their own words. What has changed since then? What remains the same? We asked today’s design leaders to compare their experience to the 1968 discussion and imagine what’s next.

The first of the #ShareTheMicNow episodes is an intimate and honest conversation between design industry icons Maurice Cherry and Debbie Millman about the state of the world, their work, what’s going on with some of the design organizations, and much more.

This week on Feasting on Design I'm chatting with Maurice Cherry, host of Revision Path. Revision Path is an award-winning weekly showcase of Black designers, developers, and digital creatives from all over the world. During the episode we dive into how Revision Path was added to the Smithsonian Natural History Museum of African American History and Culture, the current events surrounding race, how the podcast highlights race in the design world, and so much more.

This week, we caught up with Maurice Cherry to talk about design podcasting, building an agency from scratch, and the current state of diversity in design. Maurice is a designer, podcaster, creative strategist, agency founder, writer, speaker, and much more.