In a Bracing Exhibition at the Guggenheim, Artists Challenge the Way History Is Told
Ashley James’s group show “Off the Record” exemplifies how curators with strong vision might reform institutions from within.
Leslie Hewitt,
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When Sadie Barnette was a kid growing up in Oakland, California, her father didn’t talk much about his time in the Black Panther Party. It’s possible he simply had other things to say. Rodney Barnette, who is now in his late seventies, has lived an uncommonly fascinating life. Born and raised in one of the oldest Black communities in the Boston area, he got involved in community organizing early on, followed the teachings of Malcolm X, was drafted into the army, earned a Purple Heart in Vietnam, took a job with the US Postal Service, joined the anti-war movement, took some time off to read W. E. B. DuBois and Karl Marx, helped the national campaign to free Angela Davis, and opened the first Black-owned gay bar in San Franc
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Jackie Robinson would have supported MLB moving the All-Star Game from Georgia
The legendary Brooklyn Dodger stood for Black Americans voting rights, six sports historians tell me.
Jackie Robinson, seen here in 1953, would have been totally behind MLB s anti-racism stance.Bettmann via Getty Images file
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Major League Baseball’s decision to move the All-Star Game from Georgia to Colorado created shockwaves throughout the sports world. I ve argued that one of the biggest factors in the league’s choice can be boiled down to two words: Jackie Robinson.
Every year on April 15, the sport commemorates the Brooklyn Dodgers player’s historic breaking of the color barrier with Jackie Robinson Day and the last thing MLB wanted was a thousand questions about the hypocrisy of celebrating Robinson while holding its All-Star Game outside Atlanta. (And if you still don’t understand why the state’s newly enacted election law is racist, this thread will be h
Space Jam: A New Legacy was scrapped because of a furore over the animated French skunk s alleged contribution to rape culture , 11 Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons were pulled for being too offensive.
The cartoons, which were produced and released by Warner Bros, were withheld from syndication in the US in 1968 by United Artists, a US digital production company founded in 1919 by Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks and D W Griffith as a way of allowing actors to control their own interests.
To this day, the short animations have remained off-air, resurfacing online and at a TCM Classic Film Festival in 2010, according to reports.