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practicing the arts of cogitation since the late 1900s.

I received this message from quilter Kyra Hicks–check her out!
Over the weekend, Amazon.com published my short essay and quilt pattern, The Liberian Flag Story & Love of Liberty Quilt, over the weekend. And, it’s only 49 cents (smile!). Have you heard of Amazon Shorts? [I had not, but I ordered it!]
You can find mine at:http://www.amazon.com/Liberian-Flag-Story-Liberty-Quilt/dp/B000QUCNWM [...]

rock star

(spotted at Stereohyped)
Black Honor Student Protests ‘Eurocentric’ Curriculum

run, don’t walk

You can enlarge this invite by clicking on it.GO SEE THIS SHOW!I loves me some Zoe.
Silverstein Photography is pleased to announce If You Reading This, the first New York solo exhibition of works by the photographer and installation artist Zoe Strauss. This exhibition is a midterm review featuring the artist’s ongoing “I-95” project, which Strauss [...]

i highly recommend this film; it’s one of the best documentaries I’ve seen

Greetings Everyone:
I’m writing to invite everyone (who’s based in the Bay Area) to twoSan Francisco Women Against Rape organized screenings of NO! (The Rape Documentary) on Thursday May 17 and Saturday, May 19.
For me, the purpose of these two screenings is to definitely raiseawareness abount intra-racial rape and sexual assault, while raisingmoney for SFWAR.
NO ONE [...]

when the studio museum is clearly your only measure for african american representation

Art Review ‘Let Your Motto Be Resistance’The Glittering A-List of Black History
By HOLLAND COTTERPublished: May 11, 2007
“Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits” at the International Center of Photography is a praise song in pictures, a shoutout to history. It’s also a fancy-dress inaugural party for the yet-to-be-built National Museum of African American [...]

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    • Haiku in my Neighborhood (M. Hanks Gallery, 2009) March 10, 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 10, 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€. […]
    • Angaza Afrika: African Art Now (Laurence King, 2009) March 10, 2010
      Angaza Afrika: African Art Now. Chris Spring, Laurence King, 350 colour illustrations,256 x 226mm, 336 pages, paperback, ISBN – 978 1 85669 548 0, £25. Angaza Afrika: African Art Now, by Chris Spring and published by Laurence King brings together more than 60 of Africa’s most creative contemporary artists, drawn from across the African continent as [.. […]