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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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- Taking a Break February 4, 2012Site visitors will probably notice that I haven’t updated here frequently. I am taking a break from my site(s) for at least the summer. I’ve been working in this field for 25 years and I’m burned out on photography and art, the site(s) are in need of major updates/ revamping/ retooling, social media is exhausting, [...] […]
- A New Mission for Aperture? February 4, 2012[…]
- Mambu Badu’s Inaugural Magazine February 4, 2012Danielle was briefly a contributor to this site; I am very excited to hear about her latest venture, the collective and now journal Mambu Badu “that seek to find, expose, and nurture emerging female photographers of African descent.”  Congrats, Danielle! As you may (or may not) know, last fall, I co-founded Mambu Badu, a photography collective […]