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(GO SEE THIS MOVIE!)’Untold Story of Emmett Till,’ a movie everyone should see

Inside Bay Area

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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    • Interesting powerHouse news March 11, 2010
      Dear powerHouse follower— You are, with any luck, a retailer, a reviewer, a promoter, or just someone vigorously involved in the visual arts, and have been following us through our varied publications over the years and the copious press we made with them, and perhaps recall the risks, the successes, maybe even the élan to which [...] […]
    • Haiku in my Neighborhood (M. Hanks Gallery, 2009) March 11, 2010
      Haiku in my Neighborhood. Poems by Dee Dee McNeil, photographs by Roland Charles,  M. Hanks Gallery, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9821810-1-0, $25.00. (Pages from the book are viewable at Google Books online.) Haiku in my Neighborhood – a coffee table book of 50 haiku poems written by jazz singer/songwriter Dee Dee McNeil with photographs by noted photographer-ar […]
    • The Erotic Diary of a Lumberjack by Barthélémy Toguo (Michael Woolworth Editions, Paris, 2010) March 11, 2010
      The Erotic Diary of a Lumberjack” (”Le Journal Érotique d’un Bûcheron”). artist’s book by Barthélémy Toguo with 12 linocuts and texts, 38 x 26.5 cm, Michael Woolworth Editions, Paris, 1000€. […]