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Prof. James Smallsa: BLACK LIVES MATTER, Malcolm X, Black Love | 2016 Ambakisye-Okang Dukuzumurenyi 38 Views • 5 years ago

Dr. James Smalls is an art historian, with a focus on the intersections of race, gender, and queer sexuality in the art and visual culture of the nineteenth century, as well as the art and visual culture of the black diaspora. He is the author of Homosexuality in Art (Parkstone Press, 2003) and The Homoerotic Photography of Carl Van Vechten: Public Face, Private Thoughts (2006). He has published essays in a number of book anthologies and prominent journals, including American Art, French Historical Studies, Third Text, Art Journal, and Art Criticism. His book chapters and articles include: Menace at the Portal: Masculine Desire and the Homoerotics of Orientalism (2016), The Soft Glow of Brutality (2015), A Teacher Uses Star Trek for Difficult Conversations on Race and Gender (2015), Racial Antics in Late Nineteenth-Century French Art and Popular Culture (2014), Sculpting Black Queer Bodies and Desires: The Case of Richmond Barthé (2013), and Exquisite Empty Shells: Sculpted Slave Portraits and the French Ethnographic Turn (2013). Smalls is currently completing a book entitled Féral Benga: African Muse of Modernism.

In 2006, Smalls curated a two-part exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art on the art, career, and international influence of the African American artist, Henry Ossawa Tanner. In 2009-2010, he served as the Consulting Editor for the five-volume set of The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art. In 2015 he was appointed to the Advisory Board for The Archives of American Art Journal.

Dr. Smalls holds degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), in Ethnic Arts (B. A.), and Art History (M. A., and Ph.D.). He has taught at Rutgers University, Columbia University, and at the University of Paris.

NYC Photographer ISSA KHARI is based in Brooklyn NY. Issa is a Credentialed Visual Journalist and Street Photographer covering everything from Protest to Fashion Shows. After 5 years of covering events large and small, there is a stable and must follow for advocates of independent media as well as those with a passion for the arts. Issa is also a VIP live stream broadcaster on the Periscope/Twitter platform. As of 2019 Issa Khari has shifted his focus to Portrait photography and continues to work closely with local talent in New York City.

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http://www.issakhari.photography/booking

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Malcolm X - Return From Mecca Interview - 21 May 1964 Ambakisye-Okang Dukuzumurenyi 38 Views • 5 years ago

Malcolm X - Return From Mecca Interview - May 21, 1964
Watch our independent film: Message to the People A Story of Malcolm X available Here: https://www.melaneyesmedia.com/

Message to the People: A Story of MALCOLM X is a historical dramatization of the life and words of, Malcolm X. This one-hour movie which portrays his image and presents his words as performed by Baba Aundar, is based on the theatrical play which bears the same name.

This film introduces us to the great legacy of a cultural Icon: Malcolm X also known as El Hajj Malik El Shabazz. It shows the life journey and powerful transformation of Malcolm Little to Malcolm X; spanning his childhood in Omaha, NE to adulthood as the National Spokesperson for the Nation Of Islam and founder of the Muslim Mosque Incorporated. Message to the People shows the evolution of the man himself. It sheds light on his upbringing, his travels to the Middle East and Africa while emphasizing his commitment to Black pride, self reliance, human rights and the liberation of African peoples all over the globe.

An International figure, Malcolm’s message of Black Nationalism challenged and shifted the views of many people around the world. There can be an argument made that his views and social commentary are more relevant now than ever. To hear Malcolm in the film speak about the disproportionate number of African Americans locked up in prison, the “House Negro” mentality, and the black struggle for human rights, only reaffirms that many things have changed since the Civil Right’s movement; while other issues that have plagued our society have remained the same.

The views of Malcolm expressed in the film, challenge the notion that integration was the best solution for Black Americans. A story of Malcolm X encourages viewers to take a look in the mirror and ask hard questions about the choices we make as individuals as well as a community. One of our goals with this film is to provoke dialogue and spark conversation amongst those who see it. With so many culturally conscious movies and documentaries by black film makers exploding onto the marketplace, we want to take the torch and fuel to the fire of knowledge and awareness! True conversation and dialogue will help our community to heal and begin to implement solutions for positive change, socially, culturally, economically and psychologically and we want Message to the People to be one of the catalysts for this growth and healing.

We want you to see this film and get a better understanding of Malcolm X, the man. Know that he was more than the picture of him gazing out the window armed with an assault rifle bolstering “By any means necessary.” He was a complex individual, with strong opinions, a passionate and eloquent speaker who devoted his life to uplifting his people. Malcolm was a son, a father, a husband, a teacher, a statesman, a visionary, he was the voice of a people. Oder this movie, download it, purchase the DVD, borrow it from a friend, rent it online, but by all means SEE this movie!