always hard to follow up with any news after someone’s death
Look out for the Virgin Mobile ringtone commercial featuring five top female bodybuilders – including Heather Foster – which is being shown on MTV. The commercial, which was filmed in New York at the beginning of August, will be aired leading up to the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards on August 31. Click here for [...]
more sad news: Tee Corinne Has Died
This is very sad news. I met Tee Corinne when I moved to the Bay Area. She photographed me because she was a tireless archivist and promoter of lesbian artists. Though I can’t say I knew her well at all, she was lovely and her work so important and I’m so sick of cancer taking [...]
hard to fathom, but then, not
Juarez Killings Escalate As Investigation StallsBy Leslie Fishburn-Clark, Women’s Media CenterPosted on August 22, 2006http://www.alternet.org/story/40116/
Like the families of hundreds of murdered and missing women in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, Cipriana Jurado is infuriated. More than 400 young women have been raped and murdered since 1993, their bodies left in the desert in the border region south [...]
September 1!!!!
We’re very excited to begin accepting applications beginning September 1, 2006 for the first cadre art grant. To date we have collected more than $2080 for the first round of grants!!!!!If you have made a donation, you are already eligible to apply; if you haven’t yet, please make a donation (see buttons at right; $10 [...]
Black students ordered to give up seats to whites
Status of Red River Parish bus driver is unknown
August 24, 2006
By Vickie Welborn vwelborn@gannett.com
COUSHATTA — Nine black children attending Red River Elementary School were directed last week to the back of the school bus by a white driver who designated the front seats for white children.
The situation has outraged relatives of [...]
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- Darkroom: Photography and New Media in South Africa since 1950 (Virginia, 2009) September 9, 2010Darkroom: Photography and New Media in South Africa since 1950. Tosha Grantham, with a preface by Deborah Willis. Essays by Isolde Brielmaier and Tumelo Mosaka, University of Virginia Press, October 2009, 160 pages, 9 x 10, 110 color and b&w illustrations, Paper ISBN 978-0-917046-89-6, $35.00. From the publisher: Photography and video are powerful t […]
- D.A.P. Fall 2010 catalog September 9, 2010I just went through the Distributed Art Publishers Fall 2010 New Books on Art and Culture. There are only a couple of titles by black photographers, but several that include black artists and curators. Here are the titles of interest: Aperture 200, Aperture, Fall 2010. Edited by Melissa Harris. Includes the feature Heroes of the Storm: [...] […]
- Palimpsest: New Journal Announcement and CFP September 9, 2010Website and Submission Guidelines Information:Â www.vanderbilt.edu/aframst/palimpsest Inquiries:Â PalimpsestJournal@vanderbilt.edu Palimpsest:Â A Journal on Women, Gender and the Black International is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes cutting edge interdisciplinary scholarship and creative work by and about women of the African Diaspora and their commu […]