January 2010
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Robin D.G Kelley's Book on Monk →
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“I have come to believe over and over again that what is most important to me...”
– Audre Lorde (via laeticia) (via tobia)
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Romare Bearden exhibit @ The Reginald F. Lewis... →
Featuring 75 works, this exhibition offers audiences a unique opportunity to go beneath the surface and better understand the graphic work of celebrated American artist Romare Bearden. The works in the exhibition illustrate Bearden’s extraordinary facility for weaving into every art form a rich tapestry of literary, biblical, mythological, popular culture and western and non-western themes...
I wanna go!- Afro Modern: Journeys through the... →
This major exhibition, inspired by Paul Gilroy’s seminal book The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993), identifies a hybrid culture that spans the Atlantic, connecting Africa, North and South America, The Caribbean and Europe. The exhibition is the first to trace in depth the impact of Black Atlantic culture on Modernism and will reveal how black artists and...
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“The darkest thing about Africa has always been our ignorance of it.”...”
– (via katebomz) (via tobia)
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POST NO ILLS.COM...if you don't know, you ought to... →
POST NO ILLS, a web-based and print annual publication, aims to provide a participatory venue for balanced arts criticism and commentary along with interdisciplinary exchange between artists and arts administrators.
more background on Haiti →
Excerpt from Inside a Failed State. A short film made back in November 2008 about Haiti by Journeyman Pictures
I, Too
gregenemy:
I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I’ll be at the table When company comes. Nobody’ll dare Say to me, “Eat in the kitchen,” Then. Besides, They’ll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed— I, too, am America.
- Langston Hughes
Historical and Contemporary Thoughts on Haiti →
Some thoughts from my other blog with links to some good reads on Haiti