The US film industry is more open to Black themes and participation than in the past, but still has not answered the question of what kind of society it will project, said Maryann Erigha, a professor of sociology and African American Studies at the University of Georgia, and author of the new book, “The Hollywood Jim Crow: Racial Politics of the Movie Industry.” “Is it a sanitized whiteness, is it a whitewashed vision, or can we have this unapologetic Blackness, and that just be part of the American cultural canon?”
Liberation Through Reading founder Erica Caines has distributed over 1,500 books to children in several cities.
The signers reveal themselves to be as fearful for the fate of the duopoly as the corporate shills they claim to oppose.
Chicago’s Bobby Rush and San Francisco’s London Breed have sold themselves to super-plutocrat Michael Bloomberg, the worst stop-and-frisker in history.
King believed humanity could achieve a “higher synthesis” that rose above the social relations of capitalism and communism.
Some Greens may fall for the “anybody blue will do” appeal, but most will not.
