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Juneteenth Edition

Posted inPoetry

Two Poems on Liberation by Rosamond S. King

Avatar photo by Rosamond King June 21, 2020November 5, 2020

Rosamond S. King, a Brooklyn-based poet, is a TriniGambianAmerican, has been publishing poetry since 1994, and won a Lamda Literary Award in 2018.

Posted inArt

What We Can Learn From a Vanished Mural of Racist Violence

Avatar photo by Jasmine Weber June 21, 2020June 16, 2022

John Wilson’s 1952 mural “The Incident,” is a salient meditation on the horrors of lynching and though physically lost, the mural endures in archival images, preliminary sketches, and studies.

Posted inArt

How Black Artists in Texas Demonstrate the Spirit of Juneteenth

Avatar photo by Lise Ragbir June 21, 2020November 5, 2020

For better or worse, words like “proud,” “unapologetic,” and “resilient” have come to define Texans, and these words and this attitude also define a spectrum of Black artists who are from, or have lived in, Texas.

Posted inArt

Remembering Juneteenth

Avatar photo by Deborah Roberts June 21, 2020June 16, 2022

I learned to love Juneteenth long before I became aware of the emancipation of enslaved Black people. I think my father was his happiest on that day; he permitted himself to do whatever he wanted on Freedom Day.

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About the Black Skin We Live In

Avatar photo by Cherise Smith June 21, 2020June 16, 2022

As Juneteenth approaches, I’ve been given reason to consider a confluence of events and ideas: my family’s life-long process of becoming Black and having to police my sons’ consumption of a certain kind of blackface.

Posted inArt

How Do We Photograph Freedom? A Conversation with Leigh Raiford

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian June 21, 2020October 27, 2021

The relationship between Black liberation and photography reveals many things about our notions of freedom and the limitations of image making as a form of common truth.

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Sunday Edition, Juneteenth: ✊🏿From Images of Liberation to Remembrances🍷

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian June 21, 2020November 5, 2020

A collection of the complicated and powerful stories that orbit Juneteenth.

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