Dr. Gavin Brown speaks about the way in which the role of music in black South African society translated into its becoming a powerful tool in its political culture.
Freedom Songs
Aurora Reyes: writing by painting and painting by writing/Aurora Reyes: escribir pintando y pintar escribiendo
“Although Aurora was a leading figure in the fascinating artistic and political environment of her time, over the years her work, like that of many of her female artist colleagues, began to be made invisible and forgotten.”
Philadelpha Sketchbook: Personal Eucharist
“In person, there was a beauty to the impossibility of fitting all of its warm earthy columns and ornate weathered teal domes into your frame of vision at once.”
Why GOP Attempts to Sanitize History Will Fail
History doesn’t disappear when you shut down a website, threaten a museum’s funding, or remove museum exhibits. We carry the past within us.
How Serbia’s Students Are Trying to Change Their Dysfunctional Country
“To see the dignity, strength and enthusiasm of the students, their refusal to be drawn into violence, and their commitment to spreading compassion and unity is remarkable.”
H.D.: Following Intricate Song’s Lost Measure
The extraordinary life and work of Hilda Doolittle, who wrote under the pen name H.D. mirrors the turbulent events of the 20th century.
A Tale of Two Presidents
“The room was small, dim and a desiccated yellow colour but the handshake and welcome were warm and clearly genuine. The man who once held the most powerful job in the world was dressed in casual shades of black and grey.”
Entertainment-wise, a motherfucker
Entertainment-wise, a motherfucker: critical race politics and the transnational movement of Melvin van Peebles
Corridos: (Mostly) True Stories in Verse With Music
Although mass media and scholars regularly document, analyze, and interpret important events, such documentations and interpretations are seldom from the perspective of the common folk, el pueblo.
Johann Gottfried Herder: Faith as silent spirituality
“The lovely words ′human kindness′ have become so trivial […] and yet this should be the goal of our striving.”
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