Humane – Pantone Color People by Artist Angelica Dass Aaarrgghh… She beat me to it! I’ve long dreamed of creating an application that would use the color picker in Photoshop to record skin color – and now, Brazilian artist Angela Dass (aka PANTONE 7522 C) has done something very … Read more →
Race – The Power of An Illusion “It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.” ~ Audre Lorde Race – The Power of An Illusion – The Difference Between Us Everyone can tell a Nubian from … Read more →
WIDE ANGLE | Brazil in Black and White | PBS Documentary WIDE ANGLE | Brazil in Black and White | PBS “Am I black or am I white?” Even before they ever set foot in a college classroom, many Brazilian university applicants must now confront a question with no easy answer. … Read more →
Rites of Passage – A Poem by Keorapetse Kgositsile I had the pleasure of attending a poetry reading by South Africa’s Keorapetse Kgositsile at UCLA’s Hammer Museum on March 27, 2012. Later, Professor Kgositsile signed copies of his latest collection of poems, This Way, I salute you. Factoid: Kgositsile is the estranged … Read more →
London, 1960 London, 1960 Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective. Martin Luther King, Jr.