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Jack Delano/FSA: Mrs. Leroy Dunn chopping cotton in a field. White Plains (vicinity), Georgia. May 1941. The photo reminds me a lot of some of Charles White's depictions of African

I've been thinking about this photo. Jack Delano, a member of the famed Farm Security Administration documentary project & a political progressive, made it at a "convict camp" in Greene

An astonishing moment. Bubba Wallace, Nascar's only black driver, greeting black fans, wearing BLM t-shirts -- in Alabama, at goddam Talladega. All this a day after finding a noose hanging

The UK has fewer confirmed COVID-19 cases than Germany & a population that's smaller by 15 million. Yet it has had *three and a half* times as many deaths from

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2020/04/03/african-americans-milwaukee-hit-hard-coronavirus/5111950002/ https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/04/02/michigan-coronavirus-by-race-deaths-african-americans-tests-covid-19/5116025002/ ht

This is fun. And fantastic. (I'm grateful to all the musicians who are posting things like this to help us through this horrible time.) cc @RichardScheinin @marktaylormusic @aliciamwaite @allthethings319 @brendanwolfe

Funny how photos of disease -- even global pandemics -- in wealthy countries look so different from those made in poor countries. An old problem, newly intensified. Important conversation here