The spark that let the Civil Rights Movement rolls around San Francisco followed by a film crew in 1963. The documentary Take This Hammer first broadcasted in 1964. Writer James Baldwin’s freestyle rhetoric lights firestorms. Check it here. The American Dream and the American Negro By JAMES BALDWIN I find myself, not for the first time, in the position of a kind of Jeremiah. It would seem to me that the question before the house is a proposition horribly loaded, that one’s response to …
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The Missed-Adventures of Br’er Rabbit and Br’er Death in the Land of Shadows is the latest solo show from artist Christopher Burch. The exhibition is part of Burch’s continuing series about Br’er Rabbit, a classic American figure birthed by slavery. Held at Aggregate Space, The Missed-Adventures instillation includes found objects, video, drawings and a floor-to-ceiling mural. Burch described it as a “giant graphic novel” that’s “confrontational” and storied. Br’er Rabbit, also known as the trickster, was a clever amoral rabbit …
“As my debt started to rise and my motivation started to plummet, I found myself writing in my journal one afternoon, wondering what I was doing in New York. I loved the city, I loved what it represented, but, what was I doing?” After blowing up off her webseries The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, Issa Rae‘s now at work on her TV show, I Hate L.A. Dudes. She wrote a dope personal essay for The Fader, here. Photo by Emily …
On the Killing of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman -Ta-Nehisi Coates On Trayvon -Sum A Letter to My Nephew -James Baldwin, December 1962 Tim Wise on HuffPost Live, July 8, 2013 Discussing His Upcoming Film, “White Like Me” Twitter – Isabel Wilkerson The Story of Harry T. Moore -PBS How Trayvon Martin Case Could Affect ‘Stand Your Ground’ Laws Across U.S. President Obama releases statement about Zimmerman’s verdict …
“…as viewing platforms increase and audiences become accustomed to extremely niche content, one imagines that the divide between these realms may blur, if not entirely fade away.” Read here. …
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