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CHUCK TURNER, 1940-2019

Written by SUREN MOODLIAR Posted December 30, 2019 Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Obituary

In the long relay race of oppressed communities and the global working class, Chuck Turner picked up the baton in the 1960s as a young activist in the Northern Student Movement (a wing of the civil rights movement). By Christmas Day 2019 when he walked on, that beginning had been eclipsed by a series of powerful base-building projects—many that at once challenged the ruling class while creatively empowering the excluded and the exploited. 

Filed Under: COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS, Obituary Tagged With: activist, african american, antiracist, black, Boston, Chuck Turner, community, justice, labor, Massachusetts, Obituary, organizer, Roxbury

THANKSGIVING FICTION: WE LIVE IN THE UNIVERSE WHERE THE BAD GUYS WON

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted November 25, 2019 Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS

National Day of Mourning Plaque. Photo by Melissa Doroquez, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://flickr.com/photos/merelymel/3119433076/.

"Americans today live in a very real universe where the functional equivalent of Nazis—European colonists—committed genocide against Native American peoples..."

Filed Under: Apparent Horizon, COLUMNS, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: african american, alternate history, America, Apparent Horizon, Book, Column, criticism, Democracy, DigBoston, genocide, holiday, Jason Pramas, Journalism, native american, nazi, Philip K. Dick, racism, review, science fiction, slavery, television, thanksgiving, The Man in the High Castle, United States

NOW, NOW, NOW, NOW, NOW, NOW, NOW, NOW, NOW

Written by HEATHER KAPPLOW Posted November 29, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts

 

Nine Moments for Now at the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art

 

Outside, in a street-level window, set a bit back from the entrance, are five Karmimadeebora McMillan pieces, all collages and paint on wood. Four of the five pieces are part of McMillan’s Ms Merri Mack series. These reworked echoes of racist lawn ornaments, ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Visual Arts Tagged With: african american, Art, Cambridge, Carrie Mae Weems, Cooper Gallery, Dell Hamilton, exhibition, Harvard University

SPEAKING WITH THE ENEMY: MY CHAT WITH THE GUY WHO IS ‘STANDING UP AGAINST ANTI-WHITE BIGOTRY’ AT BU

Written by DOUGLAS YU Posted July 15, 2015 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

“I have never been involved in any ‘white supremacist’ group such as KKK, neo-Nazis, skinheads or whatever else,” Gage wrote. “That is why we founded the NYF."

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: african american, angelo john gage, arizona state, asian-american, bigotry, Boston Magazine, boston university, bostonia, BU, cornell william brooks, hatewatch, kkk, naacp, national youth front (nyf), racism, Saida Grundy, skinheads, southern poverty law center, us marine corps

LABOR OF LOVE: INTIMATE APPAREL AT THE LYRIC STAGE COMPANY

Written by SPENCER SHANNON Posted February 12, 2015 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Intimate Apparel the latest in a streak of vibrant representations of people of color.

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Aditi Brennan Kapil, african american, Company One, Displaced Hindu Gods Trilogy, feminist, Intimate Apparel, Lynn Nottage, Lyric Stage Company, Summer Williams

ROCK SOLID: ELIJA ROCK BRINGS HIS THIRD TURN AS ROLAND HAYES TO THE PARAMOUNT

Written by SPENCER SHANNON Posted January 29, 2015 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Woven throughout the beautiful juxtaposition of Southern spirituals and rich opera, Breath & Imagination tells the story of an artist of color in a world that built on racial stereotypes and oppression.

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: african american, ArtsEmerson, breath & imagination, daniel beaty, elija rock, i dream: boston, naacp theatre award, opera, paramount, performance, residency project, roland hayes, southern, spirituals, theater

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