The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery recognizes the life of Henrietta Lacks with the installation of a 2017 portrait by Kadir Nelson.
Al-Jawad Pike, Peckham House Extension, London, 2018
I made the mistake of watching Blackkklansman at a screening filled overwhelmingly with white people who laughed at scenes not meant to be ‘funny’.
Incendies (2010) | dir. Denis Villeneuve
“If you give children a vocabulary that’s large enough and complex enough to express their emotions and their ideas, you give them access to complex feelings and emotions in themselves. So that if you talk to a teenager and all they can say about how they feel is BAD, and they haven’t got, you know, a larger vocabulary for lonely, abused, insecure, frightened…I mean there’s this huge panoply which…I remember when my daughter was just telling me that she just felt bad, I bought her a thesaurus. I said, “Look up, is it sort of over lonely, or is it insecure…and look up under lonely, you’ll find two hundred words for lonely. Which one?” But what that does is that it makes you feel that there’s this huge complexity of emotions and there are words for all of them. If you want children to feel less frustrated and less disenfranchised and less unable to even feel comfortable with their own emotions, you’ll have to give them a vocabulary that’s as complicated as their inner lives. And one of the things we see in children is this incredibly reduced capacity for reporting their inner lives to the exterior world. One of the things is just teaching them poems, just teaching them to memorize poems in school, they don’t have to interpret them, if they just internalize the language of the poem, the complexity of the emotion in the poems…” -Jorie Graham, in a conversation
Despite knowing the journey and where it leads… I embrace it. And I welcome every moment of it.
Arrival (2016) dir. Denis Villeneuve
What Is An “Aryan”? (1941)
10 years ago at the 50th annual Grammy Awards, Amy Winehouse won five awards out of the six she was nominated for. She tied the record of achieving the most wins by a female artist in one year.
having cousins ranging from 42 to 3 years old in age is a Mood of Colour
Abdel Kader Haidara, the librarian who saved Timbuktu´s ancient cultural treasures from al-qaeda
“People don’t have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love. Then, when you’re dead, when they’ve killed you by what they made you go through, they say you didn’t have any character. They weep big, bitter tears - not for you. For themselves, because they’ve lost their toy.” James Baldwin, Another Country
John Berger in Ways of Seeing (via spoutziki-art)
Donna Yeager is an American pastel painter. One of her pieces of art, “Coptic Christian Mourners,” is dedicated to the mourning families of the 21 Coptic martyrs who were slain by the Islamists of ISIS in Libya on February 12, 2015.
Rare photos for the Palestinian journalist, artist, novelist, and short story writer Ghassan Kanafani.