April 2011
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Apr 29th
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Afroeurope: Zadie Smith about her mother, father...
  Best-selling British author Zadie Smith wasn’t in the news because she wrote a new book, but because she claimed her childhood home was brimful of books – but most had been borrowed from a local library by her mother and not returned.  “I didn’t steal books from library, says mother of Zadie Smith,” wrote the Daily mail. Her mother Yvonne Bailey-Smith, 56, agreed that...
Apr 29th
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Apr 29th
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Claire Denis Interview For Her Brilliant New Film...
Claire Denis is undoubtedly one of the world’s great filmmakers. Her films are brimming with feeling and emotion, she doesn’t need witty or insightful dialogue to capture us or move the story along, she lets the feel of the film do that to a captivating effect. White Material is no different, set in an unnamed African country, the film is an entrancing portrayal of civil war, racial tension,...
Apr 29th
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Apr 29th
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Apr 28th
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Apr 28th
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“My Dear Sir, I have received your declaration of human rights and want to say...”
– W.E.B. Du Bois (1944) The Correspondence of W. E. B. Du Bois: Volume 3; 1944-1963 p. 23
Apr 27th
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Apr 27th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-4-24) →
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx (77) Jam City (51) How to Dress Well (44) Childish Gambino (37) The Weeknd (19) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Apr 27th
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Apr 27th
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Apr 26th
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“I say, yes, you can rent out a hostage pit. You can also close your browser....”
– Colson Whitehead -  Better Than Renting Out A Windowless Room: The Blessed Distraction Of Technology 
Apr 26th
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Apr 26th
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Apr 26th
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Apr 26th
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Apr 25th
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“I was grappling with this, with a world in which the fact of blackness had...”
– - Sylvia Wynter | interview with David Scott in Small Axe (p.134) Reading this Janelle Monaé’s lyrics from ‘Locked Inside’ came screeching to mind “The color black means it’s time to die / And nobody questions why”. Black as abject category … I think we’re still grappling with this in many guises. ...
Apr 25th
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Apr 25th
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Nathan Englander talks with Zadie Smith
Apr 24th
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Apr 24th
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Apr 24th
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Apr 24th
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io9 » Samuel Delany's massive new novel finally... →
wildunicornherd: Heyyyy! (Don’t read the comments.) Via unusualmusic, who also links a video about an upcoming adaptation of Nalo Hopkinson’s Skin Folk—but Youtube is borked for me and I can’t play the video :’(
Apr 23rd
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Jesus Barraza and Melanie Cervantes - Agua es...
Water is life, defend your life. It is so simple, we are connected to the land we live on, if the land gets sick so will we. Water is one of the primary things need for life to exist, if we poison the water or we experience drought cause by climate change we will cease to exist. http://dignidadrebelde.com/blogpost/view/271
Apr 23rd
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-4-17) →
M.I.A. (49) Prince (37) Cocteau Twins (31) Nicki Minaj (30) Herb Alpert (25) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Apr 20th
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Apr 18th
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“The lesson of [the 1992 U.S. intervention in] Somalia is the urgent need to...”
–  Making Somalia’s nightmare worse - Lee Wengraf
Apr 18th
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“In every era the attempt must be made anew to wrest tradition away from a...”
– Walter Benjamin, “Theses on the Philosophy of History,” 1940 (via nickkahler)
Apr 17th
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Apr 17th
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Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry “Higher Level” featuring... →
Lee “Scratch” Perry  collaboration with TV On The Radio‘s Tunde Adebimpe
Apr 16th
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Apr 15th
Gramophone Recordings from the Linguistic Survey... →
Presentation of Gramophone Recordings from the Linguistic Survey of India consists of digitized recordings originally collected in South Asia during a period from 1913 until 1929.
Apr 15th
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Apr 14th
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Apr 14th
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Apr 14th
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Comandante Ramona
Jesus Barraza - Todos Somos Ramona María Ach - Comandante Ramona Comandante Ramona Chiapas, 1959-2006. Indigenous Tzotzukna. One of the most outstanding representatives of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN). She fought to defend the rights of indigenous women and craftswomen, for the right to education and the valuing of craft work. She went to great effort to demand the...
Apr 13th
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Claire Denis - Beau Travail (1999)
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Apr 13th
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-4-10) →
Teedra Moses (17) How to Dress Well (16) The Weeknd (11) Dirty Money (Diddy) (1) Zomby (1) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Apr 13th
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A Brief History of the "Clenched Fist" Image
Apr 12th
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““This ‘Negro’ was a wholly distinct ideological construct from those images of...”
– Cedric Robinson in Black Marxism  (via whatijustread)
Apr 12th
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Apr 11th
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Black (W)holes: Queering Afrofuturism: Is... →
queeringafrofuturism: Does this notion of a black future or black planet necessarily reify some of the same racial and exclusionary violence that black people have historically had to face in a (white) planet? 
Apr 11th
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Apr 10th
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“Bereits die Zeitung wird mehr in der Senkrechten als in der Horizontalen...”
– Walter Benjamin, Einbahnstraße (1928) (via spurloser)
Apr 10th
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“A Hole in My Head: A Life Revealed—The Story of Vertus Hardiman Vertus’...”
–  A Hole in My Head: A Life Revealed—The Story of Vertus Hardiman
Apr 10th
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Apr 9th
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Looking for Claudia Jones Documentary
Apr 6th
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