Favianna Rodriguez Part of New Documentary Series
By @aprilscissors from our friends at Imagine2050, Voice of Art, a new documentary series capturing the spirit and passion of artist-activists committed to social justice in their community can now be seen on Pharrell Williams’ i am OTHER YouTube channel. A three part episode features Favianna Rodriguez (@Favianna), CultureStrike and Presente.org co-founder and ally to Center for New Community, in “Migration [...]
Roseanne Barr and Legendary Concert Promoter Leonard Rowe Talk about Racism in Hollywood
July 10, 2012 Comments Off
The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice – Martin Luther King, Jr. On June 24, I had the opportunity to co-host with Roseanne, on The Roseanne Barr show, heard each Sunday, on KCAA radio. Our guest was legendary concert promoter and long time friend and manager of Michael Jackson, [...]
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By Dominique Godreche, from our friends at Indian Country Today, Eleven Native artists went to Paris late last year for an art show titled Oklahoma Painters, which was part of the sixth annual Art en Capital event at the massive Grand Palais. The exhibit was set up by curator Russell Tall Chief, Osage, director of arts & exhibitions [...]
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While indulging in a late afternoon nap, I was awakened by a phone call from a dear friend inviting me to see “White Noise: A Cautionary Musical” at the Royal George Theatre in Chicago. Produced by Whoopi Goldberg, and inspired by real-life singing white separatist twins, Lamb and Lynx Gaede, better known as Prussian Blue, [...]
Continue reading …Excerpt/Preview: —- “On Multivitamin: Art as Dietary Supplement.” Artist Talk w/ Evan Nabrit and (American) Ex-Patriots in Paris, FR. 2010. — Filmed: November 21st, 2010. — American Visual Artist, Evan Nabrit (b.1982) gives talk on recent collage work @ intimate gathering, near Notre Dame in Paris, FR. Artist leads brief discussion on medium; follows [...]
Continue reading …1. Let’s start with the obvious: The author is a white male, part of a group whose voice is vastly overrepresented in the media. Instead of reading yet another piece from a white male perspective, why not read something written by those whose voices are either not heard or marginalized. 2. Chances are, if you’re [...]
Continue reading …Well, here’s a piece I never imagined myself writing: A defense of a white man’s use of the N-word. I want to start with a little back-story: I don’t use the N-word. Not ever. But I used to, not so long ago. I used it in the context of talking about racism in my psychology [...]
Continue reading …By Dr. Alcira Dueñas This past weekend, I had the unique opportunity to attend a talk, a play, and part of a workshop by Héctor Aristizábal, a multiphacetic artist with a singular approach to life and a serious commitment to transform the vital experience of many around the planet. The way Héctor conceives social change as [...]
Continue reading …This “golden boy” of social art has already created historic images. And he’s just beginning. For the thousands of people who have participated in recent pro-immigration marches and demonstrations in Arizona, the name Ernesto Yerena is not as popular as some of the posters he has created and which have become an emblematic symbol in [...]
Continue reading …Being interracial in Canada is about crossing borders: some imaginary, and some rigidly imposed. It is also about juggling with hyphens and margins, and struggling to carve out a space in Canada’s proclaimed multicultural imaginary – a space that, as many might argue, is largely make-believe in that it makes us believe that it’s better [...]
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