Projects tagged
Race & Ethnicity
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#1000BlackGirlBooks
Read more: #1000BlackGirlBooksFrom Jezebel: Marley Dias is an 11-year-old New Jersey resident who’s rounding up children’s books that feature black female leads so that she and her peers have more fictional characters to look up to. The project, titled #1000BlackGirlBooks, started when…
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Burkaphilia
Read more: BurkaphiliaWhen Behnaz Babazadeh was young, her family moved from Afghanistan to the US. She loved almost everything about her new home — especially America’s amazing selection of candy — but she also loved wearing her familiar pink-flowered headscarf, which she’d…
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Toyi-Toyi
Read more: Toyi-ToyiToyi-toyi is a Southern African dance originally from Zimbabwe by Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) forces that has long been used in political protests in South Africa. Toyi-toyi could begin as the stomping of feet and spontaneous chanting during protests…
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I Have a Right Too…
Read more: I Have a Right Too…CAM brings contemporary art and ideas directly to Saint Louis Public High School and Middle School students through its ArtReach program. Tailored to meet the needs of individual schools and teachers, ArtReach is designed to raise awareness of contemporary issues…
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#IfTheyGunnedMeDown
Read more: #IfTheyGunnedMeDown#IfTheyGunnedMeDown Shows How Black People Are Portrayed in Mainstream Media. The hashtag demonstrates that the narrative the media continues to portray regarding black people isn’t always truthful. The vicious slaying of Mike Brown by Ferguson, Mo., police has once again…
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Imaginary Activism: The Role of the Artist Beyond the Art World
Read more: Imaginary Activism: The Role of the Artist Beyond the Art WorldIn this solo work, Gómez-Peña tests brand new material dealing with radical citizenship and what he terms “imaginary activism,” combining live art, literature, theory, and pedagogy in a wonderfully strange mix. Not one solo performance is ever the same. Gómez-Peña…
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Miles Morales
Read more: Miles MoralesFrom The Huffington Post: In his lyrics under the rap pseudonym Childish Gambino, Donald Glover proposed, “I’ll be your hero – Donald for Spider-Man.” It might have sounded innocuous to the uninitiated ear – just another hip-hop boast among many…
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Negrotown
Read more: NegrotownThe video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg58d8opQKA From Flavorwire: “Another world is possible!” — so goes the popular activist chant at rallies and marches. Yet one of the most difficult aspects of sustaining a grassroots political movement can be imagining that other world and…
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Manifest Justice
Read more: Manifest JusticeLast August, as protesters marched in Ferguson, Missouri, after the death of Michael Brown, the 18-year-old unarmed teen shot by a police officer, another group of activists began thinking about how to incorporate the creative community into the movement. The…
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Multiple perspectives of protest turning violent, into riots
Read more: Multiple perspectives of protest turning violent, into riotsThe two sources linked in this post are separate reviews of the incident currently occurring in Baltimore. It illustrates the factor of hindsight…. what supposedly began as a peaceful protest, in one article, is portrayed as clearly intended to fight…