Democracy Now! Headlines 11-21-2014 [Amy Goodman & Juan González] Democracy Now! – PART 2: Bryan Stevenson on Executions and Civil Rights: “Lynching Stopped But the Mindset Didn’t” Mexican Protesters Look to Start a New Revolution [Jason McGahan] Keystone, Climate Change and the Cold [Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan] A writer spends forty years looking for his bully. Why? [Mark Frauenfelder] How Censors Killed The Weird, Experimental, Progressive Golden Age Of Comics [Saladin Ahmed] The Pain Of Casual Racism [Jaeun Park] How top colleges figured out …
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Democracy Now! Headlines 11-14-2014 [Amy Goodman & Juan González] Gorbachev says world is on brink of new Cold War [Bettina Borgfeld] Rave New World: How the Fall of the Berlin Wall Changed Techno Forever [Martin Guttridge-Hewitt] Big Bank Hank, an Early Star of Rap, Dies at 58 [Jon Caramancia] Big Bank Hank: ‘Rapper’s Delight’ and the Sugarhill Gang’s revolution [Randall Roberts] Sugar Hill Gang “Rapper’s Delight” (1979) #RIP Big Bank Hank #Classic #OldSchool #HipHop #Rap #Disco #70s #80s #vinyl #twelveinch uncredited …
Democracy Now! Headlines 11-7-2014 [By Amy Goodman & Juan González] Cops Arrest 90-Year-Old Advocate and Clergy For Scary Crime of Feeding the Hungry [By Abby Zimet] In Gaza, Palestinians turn destruction into artistic protest [By Mariam Elba] Capitalism is the Legitimate Racket of the Ruling Class – Al Capone [By Snowball] Maximum Progress on the Minimum Wage [Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan] Democracy Now! – New GOP Majority Backs Amnesty for Corporate Tax Dodgers, But Not Undocumented Immigrant Workers Democracy Now! – Matt Taibbi and …
By Steve Kearse Racism’s greatest power is its ability to drastically simplify the world. Through racism, literally all things – clothing, behaviors, desires, needs, potentials, friendships – become ordered and recognizable, “obvious” and apparent. Racism provides answers by making the world unquestionable. Given this alarming power, the fundamental task of all anti-racist work is to deny this contrived simplicity and undermine it, exposing the unrelenting complexity of the world and refusing to accept anything less, anything simple. There are many ways …
Two years before D.W. Griffith’s abominable masterpiece Birth Of Nation pulled a Clockwork Orange on white folks, portraying black people as monstrous savage animals, the silent 1913 film Bert Williams: Lime Kiln Field Day (a working title) was portraying blacks quite differently. They weren’t super heroes, intellectuals or persevering under dogs. It’s a romantic comedy starring Bert Williams, a famous black entertainer who performed on Broadway and in black face. He performs in black face in the film as well. Museum of Modern Art curator Ron …
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