Faith Ringgold’s 1971 protest in front of the old Whitney Museum w/ the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition was a pushback against the institution’s questionable practices. 46 yrs later, her work inspired by being called a ni**er at that protest would be displayed @ the Whitney 🙃

Faith Ringgold, Oct 8 1930-Apr 13 2024
“Picnic on the Grass...Alone,” 1997
I love her ease, her peace, her solitude.

Rest in peace forever, dear artist 🤎🪽

Advertisement for the 1927 silent drama film 'Streets of Shanghai', featuring among others a young Anna May Wong. Unfortunately the movie is considered lost with no more known copies existent.

Faith Ringgold, quilt and visual artist, dies at 93 npr.org/2024/04/13/685…

⭐️TOMORROW ⭐️ (4.14.24) on the program: my conversation w José Vadi (José Vadi), author of the memoir-in-essays CHIPPED: WRITING FROM A SKATEBOARDER’S LENS, available from Soft Skull Press.

🎧 avail where podcasts are avail.

📺 & on YouTube.

✌🏼stay tuned…

RIP Faith Ringgold! Talk about a legacy of cultural storytelling ✨

[Image by: John C. Edmonds for Harper’s Bazaar, March 2022]

Faith Ringgold, a champion of Black arts, activist and children’s author that was best known for what she called “story quilts,” has died at 93.

nytimes.com/2024/04/13/art…

Damn, was just talking about her work in relation to a project I’ve been working on. What a loss.

Oh no! I feel so lucky to have seen her exhibit when it was at the DeYoung! Rest in Power, Faith Ringgold!

there’s always a tweet…

This is not a coincidence or accident… this is the real and tangible ways that bigotry ignorance and fear mongering have endangered the children you profess to love

'It is very bad in America to be right too early.'
vanityfair.com/news/2022/09/h…

this poem by june jordan dedicated to thousands of palestinians in 1985 could have been written yesterday💔

I don't know why 'No, I'm from Iowa, I only work in outer space' has stuck with me my whole life but there it is anyway

Kavita Patel M.D. Yaneer Bar-Yam 8) crap it has now gotten worse. All in one week.

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Members, check your inboxes for an email about a special election coming up for the NBCC board! Candidate statements are due in two weeks.

In light of today's news in California, where Google threatens to stop linking to news articles so it doesn't have to pay journalism outlets, this interview from The Seattle Times' publisher (and the longtime owner) Frank Blethen feels very relevant.

localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/projects/state…

#Exclusive : Chinese migrants are now the fastest-growing group at the US southern border. More deaths amid human trafficking surge.

Our report reveals victims, survivors, and backstory of Mexico-based human trafficking aided by local Chinese restaurant owners.
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