What Bryan Stevenson Realized About America In Lagos
(I also did not want to see Ezra Klein Face, so I just listen to the audio)
Instead of focusing on coverage or lack of coverage as related to why we seem to still be grappling with this literal same issue every 50 years on this continent --
I want to focus on two of the country's great researchers and scholars - one a civil rights attorney, one a historian - giving us a comprehensive look at the conditions that have created and reinforced this imbalance as well as at least offer frameworks of a plan to create a different reality that recenters the indelible contributions of people whom some are determined to erase, literally without which the country could not have been built
The Role of Race In Our Nation's Founding - Counselor Janai Nelson Esq, NAACP LDF, talks with Professor Nikole Hannah Jones
because SO MUCH has happened this week -- we'll get into it in comments, I promise -- that I want to keep it simple and try to stick with the tools of art (& within them, observation) as proper & necessary for sanity and survival
How Can Art Help Save Our Democracy - Stacey Abrams, Kathleen Turner, Zavante Myrick
especially as it calls for what I think Miles used to say was "listening for the spaces between the notes" -- which (pure improv aside when I can't keep up) I've taken to mean listening for the voices we don't hear, hearing what isn't said, seeing what some are trying to erase, memorializing that it did and does in fact exist
Colin Kaepernick is funding an independent autopsy so Nolan Wells’ family can get answers they can trust Tyler Perry is covering Nolan’s funeral so the family can focus on grieving instead of worrying about the bill
(also true of other artists - whatever your medium)
Is there a piece of music that feels like home to you, wherever you are in the world?
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