Month: September 2020

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+ jim demonakos, koko kondo, lillian e smith, mark long, nate powell, Nguyễn Ngọc Loan, Nguyễn Văn Lém, the silence of our friends

Building Bridges in “The Silence of Our Friends”

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Mark Long, Jim Demonakos, and Nate Powell’s The Silence of Our Friends opens with Mark playing war in 1968 in Houston, TX. He crawls through the front yard pretending to be an American soldier as he searches for Vietcong soldiers before engaging them. His sister Michelle wants to join him, and Mark gets angry because he doesn’t “wanna play with no girls.” Eventually, after … Read More Building Bridges in “The Silence of Our Friends”

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+ a visitation of spirits, black panther, chadwick boseman, emmett till, jack kirby, jackie ormes, lillian e smith, martin luther king, jr, randall kenan

August 28, 2020

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On Saturday August 29, 2020, I awoke and checked my phone. The notification from one of the news services told me that Chadwick Boseman had passes away of cancer at the age of 43. In 2016, he was diagnosed with stage III colon cancer. He did not speak publicly about the diagnosis, and over the course of the next four years he filmed various … Read More August 28, 2020

+ andrew aydin, civil rights, Dr. c.o. simpkins, james meredith, march, martin luther king, jr, nate powell, ruby bridges, shreveport times

“Our Laws Must Be Upheld”

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When I was younger, I used to watch old black and white television shows on Nick at Nite and other channels. After watching the shows, I used to think that people, before the advent of color television or even technicolor, saw only in black and white. I used to think that what they saw through their eyes consisted of only two colors and shades … Read More “Our Laws Must Be Upheld”

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