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Art
Fruitvale Station
“Fruitvale Station” (2013) is an American film about the last day of Oscar Grant’s life. On January 1st 2009, Grant, an unarmed Black man, was shot in the back by the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) police at Fruitvale Station in Oakland, California. Octavia Spencer plays his mother. Ryan Coogler writes and directs, his first film. It won an NAACP Image Award, an award at Cannes, but no Oscar.
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Source: abagond.wordpress.com
I saw this movie. It has excellent acting and cinematography, it’s entertaining, and of course it’s heartbreaking like crazy.
A Comic Points Out The Absurdity Of A Famous Fantasy Film For Not Including A Certain Kind Of Actor
The reality of Hollywood can be hilariously unreal when it comes to fantasy movies.
Community Village‘s insight:
Hollywood does a lot of work in maintaining segregation and inequity. When they do not include people of color, they are keeping the jobs and the money from people of color.
Their movies often do not reflect the real mixture of races in today’s United States.
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Post Colonialism?
“Since the recent Anti-Colonial Anarchism or Decolonization poster went viral I’ve been privileged, as the poster’s maker, to take part in several conversations it has provoked.”
Rooney Mara as Tiger Lily in the upcoming Pan perpetuates stereotypes, underrepresentation of Native Americans
“On March 12, Variety.com announced that actress Rooney Mara has been cast as Tiger Lily from the Peter Pan story in Joe Wright’s retelling called Panset by Warner Bros. to come out July 2015.
The trouble is that Tiger Lily is explicitly stated in the novel and play as being a Native American. Rooney Mara is clearly white and pale-skinned. As far as sources such as Flavorwire, Imdb, and Entertainment Weekly can tell, there has been no change to Tiger Lily’s identity as Native American.
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Community Village‘s insight:
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Everyone and Their Mother, and Apple, Want Emojis to Be More Diverse
Across mobile, and especially in iOS, people use emojis to express deep and complicated emotions. But the lack of diversity in the human-related emojis makes it hard to accurately represent life through these pictograms. For the most part (see above), they either depict white people/disembodied white hands, or the traditional…
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The Grotesque Ban On Gays In New York’s St Patrick’s Day Parade
In states where gay marriage is legal, gays are still banned from openly marching in St Patrick’s Day parades in New York and Boston.
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Mindy Kaling on the cover of Elle
Mindy Kaling, best known for being in “The Office” (2005-2013) and “The Mindy Kaling Project” (2012- ) on American television, made the cover of the February 2014 issue of Elle magazine in America….
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Trayvon Martin and the Nativity?
“What do baby Jesus and Trayvon Martin have in common? Violence. ”Jesus was born into a state of total vulnerability as an innocent unarmed child during a time of great violence much like Trayvon Martin… As a result, the original Christmas was a time of great grief and agony for many children and parents,” reads the sign posted near the artist John Zachary’s nativity scene.”
Trayvon Martin’s sweatshirt. Source CNN
Community Village‘s insight:
I had tweeted that Trayvon Martin is our contemporary Jesus. Trayvon’s blood stained sweatshirt in the form of a cross with the bullet hole through the heart area is a powerful symbol of the war on Black and Brown youth, which is sold to U.S. culture as “getting tough on crime” and waging a “war on drugs”.
Trayvon Martin is a powerful symbol of Black and Brown youth being seen as criminals; being seen as guilty and stalked or stopped-n-frisked wherever they stand and wherever they walk. At what pace can a Black or Brown youth walk and not been seen as guilty?
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Gradient Lair – Kick Ass Blog
“ Tatyana Fazlalizadeh’s Street Art Confronts Sexual Harassment”
STOP STREET HARASSMENT. Love this campaign.
Community Village‘s insight:
Gradient Lair is one of the most well organized and laser focused blogs I’ve ever seen from an individual (one owner) blog.
Here’s a paragraph from her Bio page:
“I am college-educated. I have a Master’s degree in Criminal Justice and I completed 2 years of additional graduate work in Psychology and Mental Health Counseling. I studied race, gender and adolescent mental health/education and I have a lot of interest in how media/culture impact this. I studied Behavioral and Social Sciences at the baccalaureate level.” –Trudy
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