Cheryl J. Fish was the first to publish a scholarly essay “Place, Emotion, and Environmental Justice in Harlem: June Jordan and Buckminster's Fuller’s 1965 ‘Architextual’ Collaboration” (DISCOURSE, 29.2 & 3  Spring and Fall 2007) on the "Skyrise for Harlem" proposal that challenged racist urban development and “slum clearance” practices of the 1960s. Fish did extensive research in Jordan’s and Fuller’s archives to establish their long correspondence, friendship and collaborations. June Jordan, writing under her married name Meyer, originally explained the Skyrise project in an article in Esquire, but she was not credited as a co-creator of the proposed re-design of Harlem housing, with an emphasis on the effect of place on the psyche, as well as access to green and sustainable space. Fish also intervened during the exhibit at the Whitney Museum, in 2008, ‘Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe,” to make sure June Jordan received credit on the placard and in any subsequent mentions of the original rendering of the Skyrise project. Her role had been omitted.

Abstract/descriptions of the essay:

https://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/discourse/vol29/iss2/7/

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/266840/summary

Invited Speaker, "June Jordan: Pleasures of Perspectives," Womxn in Design Conference, Princeton School of Architecture, February 24-25, 2022.

Invited Panelist, on June Jordan and Buckminster Fuller’s 1965 “Skyrise for Harlem Plan,” at “Never Built  New York Live: Architects and Planners on their Unrealized Work,” Queens Museum, Feb. 4, 2018. https://queensmuseum.org/events/never-built-live

Institute for Research on the African Diaspora and Caribbean (IRADAC)--Lecture on Environmental Justice and June Jordan’s 1965 Harlem Redesign Project—February 26, 2015, CUNY Graduate Center.

2011 Rose Gladney Lecture on Justice and Social Change, University of Alabama. "June Jordan and Buckminster Fuller's 1965 'Archi(text)ural' Collaboration.

The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center Cheryl J. Fish to Discuss "The Harlem Skyrise Project."  https://www.asheville.com/news/hsp0810.html