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Deidra–you rock!

I spotted this at Feministing (which you should check out, because there’s a brief interview): Deidra, who calls herself “just a concerned black female,” started this blog to track missing black women (who are mostly ignored by the media): http://blackandmissing.blogspot.com/

Go Theodore!

Posted on AUGUST 8, 2007:
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINEHammonds House brims with anger and defiance with two exhibitions
By Felicia Feaster
You want angry?
The recent Eyedrum Furious show teased but failed to deliver foaming outrage. But Our Flesh of Flames at Hammonds House Museum brings it.
As nitroglycerin-volatile as the title promises, Our Flesh of Flames [...]

why it’s never just about race (as if that weren’t enough)

(forwarded from Hank Thomas)
Stop Intel’s Racist Attack – Act Now

I almost fell out of my seat when I saw Intel’s new advertisingcampaign. It shows six bowing African American athletes before a chino-clad, oxford-shirted white manager with the slug: “Maximize the
power of your employees.”

The ad (shown at left) demonstrates the gross insensitivity of [...]

oh, this is rich

I spotted this on a listserv I’m on; comments from the person who posted it are up top. It’s so ridiculous it’s hilarious.
Okay, this right-wing, religious zealot, FL state rep was caught in a park trying to pay a guy to let him go down on that guy and his defense is…wait for it…the guy [...]

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  • CARLAGIRL PHOTO was founded on 14 February 1999 by Carla Willliams, a photographer, writer, and editor, born, raised and heading back to (yea!) Los Angeles, California.

    It was established with two goals: to be able to make my own work widely available for free, and to make accessible my research about artists of the African Diaspora, especially photographers, and in particular women. As it developed it grew to also include GLBTQ artists.

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      Site 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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      Danielle 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 […]


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