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Really Erykah? You're just gonna serve this much yes in one photo? #sheaintright
"Meaninglessness takes hold because meaninglessness is addictive. People who want to challenge this theory point to Kendrick Lamar, and the way that his music, at least so far, has some sense of the social contract, some sense of character. But is he just the exception that proves the rule?"
The 11th annual Langston Hughes African-American Film Festival in Seattle, WA has accepted my mixed-media documentary short "Steamfunk & Rococoa: A Black Victorian Fantasy." The festival upholds a "tradition of presenting positive, provocative and penetrating independent films created by emerging and established filmmakers" and will take place from April 26th through May 4th. Check out the link to the festival and information about prior years here: http://www.langstoninstitute.org/film-festival/
Are you tired of witnessing people hash out important conversations about race, popular culture, or recent politics online instead of in person? Are certain people missing from critical conversations because they're not online? Has Black History Month been reduced to a ritual of iconic photographs and McDonald's commercials? Check out Black After February. It's a movement for YEAR-LONG recognition and dialogue.

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Game shows invite audiences and viewers to partake in a wonderland of trivia and competition with the promise of rewards that an average Joe (or Joanne) can truly appreciate. But what are the effects of a talk show that incorporates similar sensationalizing elements for capturing its audienceās attention? What ethical standards are at stake when the objects of oohās and aahās evolve from vacuum cleaners or vacations to human beings who compose a social sideshow?
LETāS GIVE THEM SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT: GAME SHOW APPROACHES TO DAYTIME TALK IN THE MAURY SHOWĀ
http://www.thesagelens.com/#!featureprojects/c1vdn
Tips for academic writing using Beyonce lyrics.
This mixed-media creation by filmmaker Ng'endo Mukii exemplifies the increasingly creative potential of the documentary genre. Ā Using different animation techniques and performance art, the film communicates a message about "'Globalized' Beauty & African Self-Image."
An important message from the inspirational Janelle Monae.
"Donāt call it a comeback, because it may not be one after all.Ā An article has been circulating through social media about how Dave Chappelleās long-anticipated return to stand-up went left during his show in Connecticut, when Dave refused to continue his performance in front of a rowdy, uncooperative, practically degrading audience.Ā But the larger theme that this article addresses and that Chappelleās experience represents is the relationship between the Black performer and the white audience."
Check out the article I'm referring to AND my 2010 essay "From Tragedy to Comedy...or Somewhere in Between: the (Un)Changing Roles of Black Comedians in Mainstream Television" at this linkĀ
http://www.thesagelens.com/#!stand-up-vs-standing-up-dave-chappelle/cre9

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Interesting and charming visual narrative about factory farming from Chipotle's "Cultivate" campaign. Ā Animation for cultural awareness and social change. Ā Advertising meeting education.
New Animated Documentary "Mill Dues" in Pre-Production Now!
Mill Dues: A Strop City StoryĀ is a mixed-media documentary about a small town in northern Louisiana and its long history with labor intensive industries.Ā Ā Told from the lens of the filmmakerās family oral histories and aided by a magic realist aesthetic, the film will take an extended glance at a little-known town in the South to unearth a greater story about deindustrialization and underdevelopment in the U.S. and the ways it impacts communitiesā culture, class, and health. Ā Keep an eye on the progress of this personal and important project at millduesproject.wordpress.comĀ
"Ballads Behind Bars: The Music of Lyfe Jennings as Art, Critique, and Healing Remedy" has been published and distributed inĀ Callaloo: Journal of African Diaspora!Ā The essay analyzes the music of R&B/Soul crooner Lyfe Jennings to illustrate it's contribution to the tradition of African-American literature and validate the importance of creative expression for incarcerated men of color.
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For those who have yet to be introduced to the beautiful, magical genre of animated documentary, become acquainted by checking out this intriguing film done with live-action footage and oil-painted animation. Ā Rich in its aesthetics and its content.
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Honesty is about transparency. Being vocal about uncertainty. Being real about inauthenticity.

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āThe overarching goal of scholarship in service to social justice is not to explain social inequality or social injustice, but to foster social justice, to bring about some sort of change. ⦠We should ask how scholarship in service to social justice differs more traditional mainstream scholarship. Traditional mainstream scholarship is based on the quest for truth - the phrase āknowledge for knowledgeās sake" captures this sensibility. Traditional scholarship has been extremely helpful to social justice projects, yet, because such scholarship sees knowledge as an end in and of itself, it need not be placed in service to social justice agendas. Much traditional scholarship, in fact, as been far more complicit with social injustice than is typically acknowledged. In part, traditional scholarship must play by a set of rules where neither ethics nor politics is deemed suitable for scholarship endeavors - these are seen as introducing bias into the scholarly process. In contrast, scholarship in service to social justice places ideas and the ātruths" that emerge from mainstream scholarship in dialogue with broader ethical and/or political concerns. Such scholarship constitutes a tradition of engaged research designed to help people envision and build more equitable and fair societies, not to help them better fit into things the way they are. In essence, scholarship in service to social justice constitutes harnessing the power of ideas in service to social justice.ā
Ā Patricia Hill Collins, On Intellectual Activism: Resisting Racism, Writing āBlack Sexual Politicsā
This is truly an outrage. Ā 20 children are killed in elementary school at Sandy Hook and we start a dialogue about gun control. Ā 22 children die in elementary school in India from consuming dangerous pesticides, and I bet we still won't speak enough about changing policy around food and crop contamination.
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