Lockdown Update Day 109
4 July 2020 07:07 pmDear Americans, Happy #AllCountriesMatter Day! :D
Here is a photo of The Six Grandfathers (Tȟuŋkášila Šákpe) - that is, Mt Rushmore before white ppl started carving into it.
More information on the name here.
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And a podcast (v. recent):
Why Ta-Nehisi Coates is hopeful by the Ezra Klein Show (4 June 2020)
(I came across it shortly after I had taken 'We Were Eight Years in Power' down off the shelf... Which felt very serendipitous.)
Also, an article from a year ago:
Ta-Nehisi Coates Revisits the Case for Reparations
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Oh and here is a video of Obama doing a speech:
President Obama Delivers Remarks on the 50th Anniversary of the Selma Marches (March 07, 2015)
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And finally, today's art. Homage to Black Women Poets, 1984, by Elizabeth Catlett (x):
Here is a photo of The Six Grandfathers (Tȟuŋkášila Šákpe) - that is, Mt Rushmore before white ppl started carving into it.
More information on the name here.
~
And a podcast (v. recent):
Why Ta-Nehisi Coates is hopeful by the Ezra Klein Show (4 June 2020)
(I came across it shortly after I had taken 'We Were Eight Years in Power' down off the shelf... Which felt very serendipitous.)
Also, an article from a year ago:
Ta-Nehisi Coates Revisits the Case for Reparations
~
Oh and here is a video of Obama doing a speech:
President Obama Delivers Remarks on the 50th Anniversary of the Selma Marches (March 07, 2015)
~
And finally, today's art. Homage to Black Women Poets, 1984, by Elizabeth Catlett (x):
