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Read this. (It’s an article about Suzan-Lori Parks.)

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see this film, before Tuesday

I can’t urge you enough. When I think of the way Cynthia McKinney has been vilified in the mainstream media I start to get violent up in here.
And if you’re black and you don’t see it, god help you. I’m serious. I’m about to make some copies (shhh) and send to folks I think are [...]

seriously? did they include mfas in those stats?

College Grads Earn More, But Racial Disparities Persist By Diverse staff Oct 26, 2006, 03:28

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wow

-70 percent of Americans have not visited a bookstore in five years
-over half of Americans will NOT read a SINGLE book after high school

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    • PITCH BLACKNESS BY HANK WILLIS THOMAS (APERTURE, 2008) December 8, 2008
      Pitch 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, 2008
      Check 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, 2008
      Poli-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, 2008
      Archeology 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, 2008
      I 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 [...]