“However, there is a need to reappraise Patty-Jo ‘n’ Ginger because in the span of each panel, Ormes’ voice rises to address how events such as McCarthyism and the murder of Emmett Till affected Black Americans.”
A poem from South African poet and journalist poet Gershwin Wanneburg.
A collection of all the articles we’ve published over the past month, for those who like to savor their Magpies’ tidings as an issue.
October ramblings.
A moving tribute from one painter to another.
A facinating article about a special category of miniature painting called ‘Ragamala,’ which is the pictorial representation of an Indian musical mode or melody which is called a ‘raga.’
From the moment Gonzalez made Mercutio real for me, I was inside the story, experiencing it as if for the first time. I was affronted: the cost of hate was too high, the sacrifice of youth beyond justifiable.
We would suggest that there is at work in this body of vulgar knowledge a form of collective intelligence about this existence in which we find ourselves, a kind of road map of life compiled by those who have gone before.
The lights flicker and I fall to the ground in the tolling darkness.
A playlist of songs we discovered because they were sampled in Hip Hop tracks.
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