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racism
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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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All of Us or None – Responses and Resistance to Militarism
Read more: All of Us or None – Responses and Resistance to MilitarismA CALL TO ARTISTS: The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) has created a new, nationally touring poster exhibit called All of Us or None: Responses and Resistance to Militarism. The exhibit will launch in June and is already scheduled to…
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Design4Peace
Read more: Design4PeaceDesign4Peace is a collection of political posters created by Leslie Dwyer. Images speak to issues of war and peace, prisons, solidarity and movement, immigration, economy and class, violence against women, ecology, agriculture, racism, and gender. Leslie works with movement and…
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#IHaveADream
Read more: #IHaveADreamI really enjoy the events that we host at The Sanctuaries. They’re well planned but not over-planned, so there’s space to just be yourself. On Monday, January 19th, we held a wonderful event that celebrated the teachings and life of…
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Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical
Read more: Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock MusicalHair: The history of the first rock musical by Eric Andrews-Katz – SGN Contributing Writer From its very first moment, the musical Hair was a thing of controversy. From its conception as a staged musical protest to the show’s eventual…
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“Glory” Performance at the Academy Awards
Read more: “Glory” Performance at the Academy AwardsSee below for a link to the performance of the song at the Academy Awards. From Salon: How Common and John Legend’s performance of “Glory” fired up Oscar night’s idling empathy machine by Sonia Saraiya The primary feeling to come…
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A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby…
Read more: A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby…Text taken from Creative Time website: To say there is a riddle lurking in the sugar-coated monument conceived by Kara Walker may be an understatement as big as the sculpture itself. A massive sphinx-turned-mammy, she stands mute, looking outward, acting…
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Shibboleth
Read more: ShibbolethText taken from website: Doris Salcedo’s Shibboleth is the first work to intervene directly in the fabric of the Turbine Hall. Rather than fill this iconic space with a conventional sculpture or installation, Salcedo has created a subterranean chasm that…