January 2012
“Art must discover and reveal the beauty which prejudice and caricature have...”
– Alain Locke (via warriorsrise)
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Folklorist’s Global Jukebox Goes Digital →
The collection of the folklorist and ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax is being digitized for dissemination. Above, a photo he took at a church in Portsmouth, Va., in 1960.
The folklorist and ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax was a prodigious collector of traditional music from all over the world and a tireless missionary for that cause. Long before the Internet existed, he envisioned a “global...
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frankocean:
darker times
they’re telling...
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Bumming Cigarettes: A Short Film: Alia Hatch... →
bummingcigarettesfilm:
Billboard Project
The Billboard Project is a series of 54 billboards featuring photographs by Zoe Strauss, installed as part of the exhibition Zoe Strauss: Ten Years. Installed throughout Philadelphia, the project is loosely structured around the themes of the Odyssey, presenting…
“But there’s a deeper, even more critical element here , because it’s the same...”
– James McBride, screenwriter of Red Hook Summer and Miracle @ St. Anna on the politics of being a Black Story teller. #peaceto @afrolicious. #ownMYownShit.
#ProfessionalBlackStoryteller/Historian…I add historians because storytellers are historians…at least that’s what the feminists I rock with...
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Newsweek: On Charlize, Viola, and the Plight of... →
newsweek:
Yesterday we posted two frames from our Oscar Roundtable in which Viola Davis, alluding to the fact black women who are not exactly Halle Berry have it hard in Hollywood, was silenced by Charlize Theron’s well-intentioned, “Stop saying that…you’re hot as shit.” It kinda blew up. So we asked…
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2012 Academy Award Nominees. →
Supporting Actress
Berenice Bejo, Jessica Chastain, Melissa McCarthy, Janet McTeer, Octavia Spencer
Supporting Actor
Kenneth Branagh, Jonah Hill, Nick Nolte, Christopher Plummer, Max von Sydow
Best Actress
Glenn Close, Rooney Mara, Viola Davis, Meryl Streep, Michelle Williams
Best Actor
Demian Bichir, George Clooney, Jean Dujardin, Gary Oldman, Brad Pitt
Best Director
Michel Hazanivicus,...
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“Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the...”
– From Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie. (via tobia)
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“I never asked Tolstoy to write for me, a little colored girl in Lorain, Ohio. I...”
– Toni Morrison (via tobia)
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such a powerhouse of a voice…
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Singing legend Etta James dies at 73 →
(CNN) — Etta James, whose assertive, earthy voice lit up such hits as “The Wallflower” “Something’s Got a Hold on Me” and the wedding favorite “At Last,” has died, according to her longtime friend and manager, Lupe De Leon. She was 73 and had been diagnosed with leukemia in 2010.
James, who also suffered from dementia and hepatitis C, died at...
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Watchbealarmed:
Be Alarmed: The Black Americana Epic
#1 Dear Mother, tiona.m. 2010 Be Alarmed: The Black Americana Epic-Dear Mother, is one in a series of 12 trailers that reference an epic themed film that does not exist in feature length form. The final form of the film will be presented in ten trailers, a press kit per trailer containing photo film stills, a synopsis, film posters, lobby...
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Watchjalylah:
I love her with all my heart.
superkwa:
best thing that happened to me all day! <3
brain-food:
Why is she not my grandma?
*The absolute best!
Watchthesmithian:
There’s an excellent exhibit at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in D.C. called “30 Americans,” that celebrates several generations of African American artists. This…video…offers a brief introduction from the curator…
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