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Humble postcards

Written by Danielle on February 13, 2009 — Leave a Comment

Amani Olu, curator, web designer, and all-around arts wunderkind recently rolled out Humble Postcards, a new project that helps emerging photographers gain exposure while raising funds for the Humble Arts Foundation. HAF was one of the first online galleries to showcase up and coming photography talent, inspiring a host of other online galleries and collectives [...]

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Thomas, Hank Willis. Pitch Blackness (Aperture, 2008)

Written by Danielle on December 8, 2008 — Leave a Comment

Pitch Blackness. Hank Willis Thomas, Aperture, October 2008, 128 Pages, ca. 125 four-color images, 8×10 inches (20×25 cm), ISBN: 978-1-59711-072-3, Hardcover, $35.
On February 2, 2000, Songha Thomas Willis was shot to death outside a Philadelphia nightclub. He was 27 years old. The takeaway? A $400 gold chain. It’s the story [...]

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  • Call for Papers on the Intellectual History of Black Women July 30, 2010
    The Black Women’s Intellectual and Cultural History Collective (BWICH) is seeking paper submissions for a broad-ranging conference on black women’s contributions to black thought, political mobilization, creative work and gender theory. We are interested in work on any time period that explores black women as intellectuals across a broad geography inclu […]
  • How Howard Got His History Back July 30, 2010
    A young DJ stumbled on a warehouse cache and reunited a barrier-breaking photographer with some 500 lost works. Read the story here: http://www.chicagoreader.com/gyrobase/howard-simmons-photographer-dave-mata-found-photos/Content?oid=1770313&storyPage=1#mce_temp_url# […]
  • Only 40 (or so) hours to go…UPDATED July 30, 2010
    Thanks again to all of my backers! By Delphine Fawundu-Buford In order for this project to be successful, we have to raise $3,830. in 40 hrs. I noticed that we have very few backers on the 5 and 10 dollar levels – of course the higher levels are driving the donations but I think that a mixture [...] […]