Education and Culture for Life
There’s a fascinating dynamic and recurring trend throughout the portals of history — and if the saying is true that history is really just a “pattern of events” then the Spanish-Columbus/Indian and English-Colonist/Indian narratives can be best understood as concentric European relationships. How are these historical events and narratives alike? How are they different? Today, …
Me: “Black is a color” My best friends: “It’s not a color” Me: (Give it a moment) Black at First Prior to the existence of any realized concept of color Black emerges as the earliest human conceptualization of artistic expression. As an innate, intuitive, and psychological selection. The prehistoric “tool of choice” for the first …
“Only through a massive campaign of “re-education” and the systematic reconstruction of truth can we even hope to stem the rising tide of ‘race and color’ disparities in our American and global societies.“ If you’re wondering why you’ve never seen this ‘common’ form of Mediterranean art (that would have been typical of high-class Egyptian/Greek citizenry) …
Let’s step back from what we think we know, from the gut wrenching and the jaw dropping agony of truth. We stand somewhat timidly for the ground beneath us shakes. It shakes with the killing of too many black and brown souls, still in purgatory set ablaze by hate and ignorance. Long gone are the …
First there was Martin Then John came along Leading the march With a prayer and a song When blocked on their way They knelt to pray Open hands joined together Letting faith be the tether Together they moved us on the way Making us all freer today Their hands always open to hold Not to …
“…after the rise of black slavery and racism, European thinkers were concerned to keep black Africans as far as possible from European civilization.” Martin Bernal, -Black Athena I can’t think of a better place to juxtapose a presentation about the paradigms of “race and color” in our society than those institutions representing art and culture …