Ruby Dee, a ringing voice for Civil Rights, onstage and off, dies at 91. Ruby Dee had a long successful acting career, most of us as students may have read Lorraine Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun and was shown in class the movie based on the play in which Ruby Dee played the memorable role of Ruth Younger, more recently she was in 2007’s American Gangster playing the role of Mama Lucas. She was also known for her work in …
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Six artists (Jonathan Meese, Bill Viola, Leigh Ledare, Elina Brotherus, Yayoi Kusama, Pipilotti Rist) talk about decisive moments in their life and work. Art is expression, the concrete, social, imaginary, fantastic, and the gray areas of life. Louisiana Channel interviewed these artists getting them to discuss the events that influenced them in making choice of living the Artist’s life, and the influences on the kind of art that they make. Here are the individual full interviews of the six artists featured in the video below …
Aja Brown – Can this Millennial Mayor turn Compton into L.A.’s next hot neighborhood? [TakePart] Gentrification of L.A.’s Skid Row, the homeless get shafted [Vice] Rural homelessness – After months, a teen leaves the woods behind [NPR] Mikki Kendall and her online beef with white feminists [Vice] Asa Akira on TakePart Live 5-19-2014 – Can porn stars be feminists? Time Magazine interviews Eddie Huang about Fresh Of The Boat sitcom [Time] Anatomy Of A Dance Hit: Why We Love To Boogie With …
Maya Angelou’s Poem “On the Pulse of Morning” Maya Angelou’s San Francisco connections (RIP) [SF Gate] Maya Angelou and Dave Chappelle, “Iconoclasts” -Maya Angelou and Dave Chappelle talk about their writing process, why Dave left his show and Maya’s homies, MLK and Malcolm X. The erasure of Maya Angelou’s sex work history [Tits and Sass] Storme DeLarverie, early leader in the Gay Rights Movement, dies at 93 [NY Times] Dave Chappelle recruits the Roots, Janelle Monae, DJ Premier, Busta Rhymes and …
Here’s a first look at The Zero Theorem, Terry Gilliam’s latest flick. He told Indiewire, “I think I made ‘Brazil’ for 2013.” We’re taking a rabbit hole trip down the existential lane starring Christopher Waltz, Melanie Thierry, Matt Damon, Tilda Swinton, David Thewlis and Ben Whishaw. It’s suppose to come out this fall in Japan and this summer in the U.S. but there’s no release date for either. Distribution by Amplify. …
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