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(GO SEE THIS MOVIE!)’Untold Story of Emmett Till,’ a movie everyone should see
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ROSALIND Patton was living in rural Louisiana when 14-year-old Emmett Till was kidnapped, tortured and murdered in Mississippi. She was 10 years old.”We heard a little Negro boy had been killed for whistling at a white woman. We were warned, ‘See [...]
Rare Photos Of African Slaves On A Slave Ship, HEADED TOWARDS THE STATES
Indian Ocean: East African slaves taken aboard the Dutch HMS Daphne from a Arab dhow, 1 November 1868. These photographs dated 1868 reveals a very little of the terrible suffering caused to millions of people by the slave trade.
This group of severely emaciated boys and young men on the lower deck of a Royal Naval [...]
"The World’s First Passenger Atomic Bomb"
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"Your spirit seems to be clipped…"
Carolyn S., from the series Other People’s Clothes, 2005
I got another rejection letter today, this time from the Alpert Awards (and man, I was hoping), so I did my usual—read the word “sorry,” tore it up and recycled it, cried, acted stoic, took to bed, then vowed once again to give up this whole art [...]
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- 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 [...]
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- 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 [...]