Forgotten in Far Rockaway
part 2
MARCUS FRANKLIN
These photos are part of Simon Willms’s “Minor League,” which focuses on aspiring professional baseball players in the Dominican Republic and was part of the @dumboartsfest in BK.
These photos are part of Simon Willms’s “Minor League,” which highlights aspiring professional baseball players in the Dominican Republic and was part of the @dumboartsfest in BK.
A sign outside artist Maya Malioutin’s Front Street studio invites people to “come in and touch the paintings.” On Saturday, during the @dumboartsfest, virtually everyone did just that - caressed her textured work.
This collage featuring Shawn “Jay-Z” Carter was displayed on the ground against artist James Goldcrown’s food truck-like mobile gallery he calls Art Moves at the DUMBO Arts Festival Saturday in BK next to the Farragut Houses. “If I came from money, I wouldn’t have the drive to always go out and sell art,” Goldcrown, who says he depends solely on his creations to support himself, told thebrooklynink.com this month. “I have to make it work. It has to work.”
Letter: Kelly to Quinn on Stop-and-Frisk
A letter from Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly to the City Council speaker, Christine C. Quinn, on measures aimed at reducing the frequency of illegitimate stops by police.
Penitentiary Fox By Martin Wong, 1988
the modern day plantation
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Michael Eric Dyson on President Obama’s stand on same sex marriage
If you want to get into his BREAKDOWN… skip to 3:54. HE GOES INNNN!
-[bLaK.]
“..Isn’t it ironic that the architect of Martin Luther King Jr.’s march on washington was a gay African-American man?” POW. Peace to Bayard Rustin and Michael Eric Dyson for this video.
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