Tag Archives: Malcolm X

remembering eve

Posted on January 14, 2012 by Dave

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design , Maplewood, N.J.) R.I.P. photographer Eve Arnold, who passed in London on Wednesday at the age of 99. Our favorite photo of hers was this Malcolm X portrait, shot in 1961.

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zoot: just another way to get the gal

Posted on July 31, 2011 by Dave

It went with the territory. The American dream was rubbish. They would never be admitted to white middle class America. The New Deal was no deal. Why should they appease the same set of values that corralled then forcibly placed … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Allan Ginsberg, cab calloway, count basie, eric felten, kathy peiss, Lindy Hop, Malcolm X, Walt Disney the spirit of '43, zoot suits | Leave a comment

Grace Lee Boggs & The Maccabean Theater

Posted on November 23, 2009 by Dave

Activist, feminist, and ultimately a poet of creative non-violence. The narrative ebbs and flows, capturing the imagination with lyricism ,substance and form; the cacophony of empty rhetoric relegated to the recycle bin. Its a critique against racism, militarism and materialism … Continue reading →