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To some in Paris, sinister past is backIn Texas, a white teenager burns down her family’s home and receives probation. A black one shoves a hall monitor and gets 7 years in prison. The state NAACP calls it `a signal to black folks.’
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Go Girls
by R.C. Baker
March 15th, 2007 6:51 PM
Ifétayo Abdus-Salam’s Pam GrierCourtesy United Black Girls
United Black GirlsRush Arts526 West 26th StreetThrough March 31
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Shawn Michelle Smith interview from F Newsmagazine in Chicago
Untitled Shawn Michelle Smith
Shawn Michelle Smith is currently an associate professor in the department of Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is a scholar as well as a practicing artist whose most recent photographic work deals with the much-publicized Abu Ghraib torture [...]
‘Half Asian’ exhibit provokes questions about race
By Brenda Payton, STAFF WRITERInside Bay Area
Article Last Updated:03/16/2007 02:50:20 AM PDT
The poster definitely gets your attention. In a photograph, an Asian woman leans toward the viewer with her fingers stretching her eyes open. Or is she Asian?
“Half Asian,” an exhibit at Oakland’s Front Gallery, asks provocative questions about racial identity, often with a [...]
OPEN STUDIO
New work by:
NICOLE AWAI
ELIA ALBA
CHITRA GANESH
SIMONE LEIGH
MARCH 24TH AND 25TH, 12- 6PM
At: Simone Leigh studio,
104 MONTGOMERY STREET, (RED DOOR)
BTW WASHINGTON AND FRANKLIN AVES
2/3 train to Eastern parkway Brooklyn museum
walk toward the fountain and make a left unto Washington ave. walk 2 ½ blocks [...]
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- Taking a Break February 7, 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, [...] […]
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- Mambu Badu’s Inaugural Magazine February 7, 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 […]