I had the pleasure of dining in the company of former Chairman Bobby Seale, a co-founder of The Black Panther Party(1966-1982). I was quite speechless for the first 20 min. We talked about racism, coalition politics, and even Lebanon.
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Editors Note (8/19/2015): The above quote is actually a tweet of a Twitter user named Vann Newkirk, user handle fivefifths.
A young woman finds the most inopportune moment to smile at the camera, as medics try to revive a drowned man at Coney Island, New York, 1940 - by Arthur Fellig -
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Arthur Fellig better known by his pseudonym Weegee was a famous crime photographer from New York in the 1930/40s. He is best known for his unflinchingly realistic photos of urban life, crime, injury and death.
This is one of his most well known photographs. Some sites like this one say the young woman in the pic is the drowned man’s girlfriend.
With tax cuts in wartime, with no sense of collective national sacrifice on behalf of the war effort, with less than 1 percent of the American population taking up arms to fight, with US casualties politically and literally shielded from public view, the cumulative effect was to normalize our national wartime. We’ve become a nation “at peace with being at war,” in the words of the New York Times media critic David Carr.
Carrie Mae Weems, You Became a Scientific Profile (top), An Anthropological Debate (middle), and And I Cried (bottom) from From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried, 1995–96. Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Copyright Carrie Mae Weems.
Coachella is capitalizing on offensive Native American appropriation
Needless to say, many Natives are not fans of the trend. But that hasn’t stopped the festival from capitalizing on the “white kids playing Indian” motif and offering tipi rentals for the low weekend price of … $2,200? Paying rent in a New York City rat hole never sounded so good.
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