Archive for February, 2008
On February 16 LAMP hosted it’s first lampshop since 2006. they invited youth to do two different workshops facilitated by two different artist/activists of Detroit, Sterling toles a beat making one, and Phoenix a writing one. this is one of the poems that came out of it. I dream of a Detroit where walking down [...]
This past Friday as part of the Detroit Institute of Art’s Friday Night Live! Series (Fridays, 6:00-10:00pm, free for Detroit residents) the museum presented: An Evening with Jessica Care Moore and Aku Kadogo. The program described the performance as, “Part theater, poetry slam and dance hall, the performances of these women from different generations pay [...]
By: Zakia Carpenter For a couple weeks I’ve been thinking about history and the present with respect to utilizing time, as if time were something that could be braided, woven, folded, or unraveled like colorful fabric. Obama has brought me back to this idea that we as individuals interact with elements which seem so much [...]
By: Julie Rosier “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.” – Antoine de Saint Exupéry Obama has the audacity to hope. He also had the audacity to build a campaign [...]
The Future is Now: California’s Multiracial Challenge to America By: Scott Kurashige Sixty years ago, Carey McWilliams, the well-traveled writer/activist and soon to be editor of The Nation, described California as “our nation’s racial frontier.” As the West Coast’s multiracial makeup posed new problems and challenges, it also offered America “one more chance, perhaps a [...]
Grace giving it straight to Bill Moyers
Encounters with the Zapatistas By Rebecca Solnit I grew up listening to vinyl records, dense spirals of information that we played at 33-1/3 revolutions per minute. The original use of the word revolution was in this sense — of something coming round or turning round, the revolution of the heavenly bodies, for example. It’s interesting [...]
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