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Biden Calls Trump A Tax-Dodging Con Artist In Podium-Pounding Smackdown in Pennsylvania

October 24, 2020
Former Vice President Joe Biden brought the fire to Pennsylvania on Saturday, blasting Donald Trump for his secret Chinese bank account and urging voters in the state not to fall for the Trump con again. “[Trump] paid 50 times more in taxes in Beijing than he’s paid in America!” Biden said during his podium-pounding speech

Black Panther (1969) by Emory Douglas, graphic artist and former Black Panther Birthday party Minister of Tradition. Drawing upon photographs…

September 15, 2019
Black Panther (1969) by Emory Douglas, graphic artist and former Black Panther Birthday party Minister of Tradition. Drawing upon pictures of feminine warriors and revolutionaries, Douglas illustrates meant the world scopes of Black innovative politics. Collete Gaiter writes of Douglas’s internationally focused artwork in Black Panther: The Revolutionary Artwork of Emory Douglas: Douglas sought to

By removing victims from lynching photos, an artist emphasizes those erased from history

September 9, 2018
“Erased Lynching Series: der Wild West Show,” (Set 1) by Ken Gonzalez-Day, 2006. (Courtesy of the artist and Luis De Jesus, Los Angeles) An old black-and-white photograph shows a crowd of people gathered around something, but it is not clear just what. There’s something eerie about it but you don’t really know why. The photograph