Projects tagged
Race & Ethnicity
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Between the World and Me
Read more: Between the World and MeBetween the World and Me by Richard Wright And one morning while in the woods I stumbled suddenly upon the thing, Stumbled upon it in a grassy clearing guarded by scaly oaks and elms And the sooty details of the…
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How Snowden Canceled the 4th of July Diplomatic Reception in Bolivia
Read more: How Snowden Canceled the 4th of July Diplomatic Reception in BoliviaOn July 2nd, 2013, after attending the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) conference, Bolivian President Evo Morales departed Russia from Vnukovo Airport in Moscow aboard his presidential plane. However, a “leak” suggested that Edward Snowden was aboard, which led Spain,…
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Malcolm X Street
Read more: Malcolm X StreetAt a time when the city of Portland was considering stripping Martin Luther King Jr.’s name off a local street, a covert organization calling itself Group X changed the name of another downtown street to Malcolm X Street in a…
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My Calling (Card) #1 Meta-Performance (1987-88; 00:58:00)
Read more: My Calling (Card) #1 Meta-Performance (1987-88; 00:58:00)Adrian Piper created ‘calling cards’ that can stand alone as individual works, but Piper also used them in performances. The works described here include edited documentary footage from two performances (one in Chicago, one in Harlem) based on My Calling…
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Freedom riders
Read more: Freedom ridersThe first legislative victory of the Civil Rights era was obtained by hundreds of people going where they weren’t invited. In 1961, Black and white Freedom Riders, well trained by SNCC in nonviolent action, rode Greyhound buses from Washington DC…
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MASK art exhibit
Read more: MASK art exhibit“MASK” is an art exhibition that explores the uses and meanings of masks, and ones feelings about them. Masks throughout history have taken many forms and have served many purposes. They have been used in construction, scientific research, technical manufacturing,…
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Artist Statement
Read more: Artist StatementMine is not Arts for the sake of Arts. It is a revolutionary INSGINA carved into the artistic plaque of my DNA to speak FREEDOM of expression and then freedom after EXPRESSION. The footprints of my revolutionary walk are dipped…
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WE CHANT RESISTANCE!
Read more: WE CHANT RESISTANCE!This special EDition is a revolutionary chant against the menacing cantankerous demonic , satanic COVID 19. And again doubles as a bold and poetic supplication to the great Almighty God to release us off this pandemic bondage. This Edition is…
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Imagining Life after the Ravaging, Virulent COVID-19 Pandemic , A Special Journal.
Read more: Imagining Life after the Ravaging, Virulent COVID-19 Pandemic , A Special Journal.The signature angst of our time was profoundly expressed in the poems submitted for WOMAWORDS Literary Press June 2020 edition, Imaging Life After COVID-19, offering women poets an opportunity to write about their experience of the pandemic and their vision…
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TIME OF THE POET:Second Name of Earth is PEACE.
Read more: TIME OF THE POET:Second Name of Earth is PEACE.MOTHER EARTH is broken from incessant decadent wars carelessly perpetuated by mindless ,vicious political imbeciles. Our natural wealth plundered by greedy ,gluttonous economic dare-devils, imbibing crude oil and fresh blood . Warlord-ism set the suns of our freedom, our earth…