protest: africans in the zoo
I put a hold on my H-Net Afro-Am mail while I am in Taos but I got this through another listserv I’m on. Please send this zoo director an e-mail in protest.
I am a German scholar of African American History and member of H-Net Afro-Am. Today I would like to direct your attention to something [...]
fuckin’ a
The amazing Ms. Zoe Strauss has been awarded a Pew Grant (http://www.pewarts.org/aboutpewfellows.html)!! There is justice in the world. Rock on, Zoe!
Malcolm X - gay black hero?
(Okay, Adrienne keeps telling me to post, so here’s something I was forwarded. I don’t even remember what or when it was but recently I saw Malcolm X’s name on a list of famous gays or bisexuals and it didn’t even register. Given the rampant push in this country to deny gay people their rights [...]
support minutemen protestors!
I was just forwarded this, so in the interest of expediency:
BREAKING NEWS: Garden Grove (CA) Police drop criminal charges against Hal Netkin In a phone call I just made to Garden Grove police, they have confirmed a rumor a CNN reporter passed on to me a couple of minutes ago that Hal Netkin was released [...]
psycho killer
Yes, I know this image is everywhere and yes, I believe he killed that woman (as my friend Carolyn points out, the media keeps referring to her as a B-movie actress as though that lessens her value as a victim) and yes, I really suspect that this hair is symptomatic of somebody crazy like a [...]
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81 Press
- PITCH BLACKNESS BY HANK WILLIS THOMAS (APERTURE, 2008) December 8, 2008Pitch Blackness. Hank Willis Thomas, Aperture, October 2008, 128 Pages, ca. 125 four-color images, 8×10 inches (20×25 cm), ISBN: 978-1-59711-072-3, Hardcover, $35 On February 2, 2000, Songha Thomas Willis was shot to death outside a Philadelphia nightclub. He was 27 years old. The takeaway? A $400 gold chain. It’s the story [...]
- Hank Willis Thomas interview December 4, 2008Check out this interview with Hank Willis Thomas in PhotoEye magazine online, http://www.photoeye.com/magazine/features/2008/12_03_Hank_Willis_Thomas.cfm, in which he talks about his monograph Pitch Blackness.
- Obama at #15 November 24, 2008Poli-Book Best Seller List Based on sales for weeks ending Oct. 25 through Nov. 15, 2008 15. Obama, by Deborah Willis and Kevin Merida. (Amistad, $26.95.) Photographs capturing Obama’s 18-month campaign to the presidency. Rankings reflect aggregated sales for the weeks ending October 25 through November 15, 2008 at many thousands of venues where a wide range of [...]
cadre $10 artist grant
- Updates from Simone Leigh November 7, 2008Archeology of Wonder curated by Kristina Newman-Scott REAL ART WAYS October 4, 2008 —January 4, 2009 Opening reception: Saturday, October 4, 2008, 4-7PM Performance by Valerie Garlick, 4:30PM Closing reception: Sunday, January 4, 2009, 3-5PM 56 Arbor St Hartford CT 06106 860 232 1006 www.realartways.org Archaeology of Wonder brings together two disparate approaches to the past - archaeology with its meticulous discipline, and wonder with [...]
- Fall Exhibitions: ?Evocations? at Rose Issa Projects, London? Kala Fellowship Exhibition, Berkeley November 7, 2008I have a few projects coming up to share with you. I will be at Kala’s opening this Thursday, October 9, in Berkeley, and on October 20 at the artist reception for my first exhibition in London. Presented by Rose Issa, I will be exhibiting works from a number of series including The Alphabet of Silence, Most Wanted [...]