January 2011
102 posts
The Glover Report: Racism, Mayor, Police, State’s... →
“As we face an increasing budget crunch, it is imperative that DC government...”
– Alan Page, At-Large City Council: Providing Opportunities to High Level Learners in DCPS
Egypt Situation Gets Worse, People Reporting... →
maatsesh-deactivated20110305 asked: where are you from?
come on up to the house: I'm sorry, but how the... →
ieatstickersallthetimedude-:
Kelley Williams-Bollar sent her children to a school district where they didn’t live and now she has a criminal record.
I’ve read so many articles by republican pundits saying that she deserved this because “tax payers would have to pay for her children’s…
Haiti: One Year Later →
The New York Times has a great interactive feature on six survivors of last year’s devastating earthquake in Haiti. One year later, the country faces numerous challenges as far as…
“The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of...”
– Buddha via nicothenick. SELF: TRUE. However, it’s easier said than done. (via tobia)
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I really needed to see this tonight. And yes, there’s a chasm between knowing this to be true and actually putting it into practice.
Vivian Maier: Lost and Found →
Photo by Vivian Maier
Check out this remarkable story of a life’s work lost and found from the BBC (and based in my hometown, Chicago):
The photographs reveal teeming streets, children…
eliz:
Poor MJ had been photoshopped since he was 11 years old.
I posted this on my main blog back in July of 2009 but I don’t think anyone paid any attention.
Here’s a GIF I made to illustrate.
Lia Sàile: Scattered Sea →
I always look forward to receiving my Impossible Project newsletters, not only for the deals they offer on experimental Polaroid film (which they brought back to life after Polaroid…
Hidden in the Open: Afro American Male Couples →
I don’t think this project needs much in the way of introduction or analysis from me. I’ll just share a small portion these truly powerful, moving images…
JULIE MEHRETU Grey Area - The Brooklyn Rail →
WatchWow. Just…wow.
“It’s back! Three-Minute Fiction has returned to weekends on All Things...”
– Three-Minute Fiction Round 6: Laughing And Crying : NPR
50th Anniversary of JFK Inauguration →
JFK and Frank Sinatra, 1961 Photo by Phil Stern (h/t to The Smithian)
Today marks the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s inauguration. I love finding offbeat photos like the…
“The cultural machinery that produces judgments about an artist’s lifetime...”
– Francesca Woodman, the Woodmans | When One Act Colors a Lifetime of Work | By Richard B. Woodward - WSJ.com
The slow-photography movement asks what is the... →
“There is a psychic risk in being an artist.”
– —-George Woodman.
Francesca Woodman, Artist, and the Family She Eclipsed - NYTimes.com
Self-immolation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
Watch4 Little Girls [film] » The Liberator Magazine | Blog
A Mormon Woman’s Choices - Modern Love -... →
kameelahwrites:
OF all the places I felt sure I’d never go, Planned Parenthood topped the list. Because, you know, they perform abortions and give condoms to kids, or so I’d been warned. Yet one spring afternoon found me in its waiting room next to a teenage girl, who was clearly perplexed by the intake form and likely bound for an uncomfortable, humiliating four minutes in the back of a...
“As sisters pick up the broken pieces left behind when black men are ripped from...”
– Behind Coretta’s Veil: Black Women and the Burdens of Loss
: Malcolm X on Patrice Lumumba, 1964 →
guerrillamamamedicine:
In honor of MLK Day and the 50th anniversary of Lumumba’s murder (his murder initiated by the governments of Belgium and the United States), I wanted to post this:
From Speeches by Malcolm X. The first part was given at a rally of the Organization of Afro-American Unity (a movement he founded) held on June 28, 1964, at the Audubon Ballroom in New York. The second is...
