Stand For Peace
Stand For Peace
Social media erupted over a video that showed a group of white girls saying the n-word while singing along to “Gold Digger,” the hit by hip-hop mogul Kanye West. Photo: (AP Photo/Brian Kersey) 23 OCTOBER 2017 HAWKINS BAY James Porteous…
‘It’s so far out of hand now that I can promise you that no one is safe. Not one of you. No one out that door. No one is safe.’ Photo: AP 22 September 2021 | Tom Grater | Dateline…
Photo: ‘I arrived at the beginning of the real Jamaican music’ … Jimmy Cliff photographed in Miami, August 2021. Photograph: Vision Addict Jamaican Independence Day marks more than 60 years in music from a man who has always looked beyond local…
Photo: Artifacts seized by the U.S. government and returned to Iraq are displayed at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Baghdad, Iraq August 3, 2021. REUTERS/Saba Kareem U.S. authorities are recovering and returning the artifacts seized from dealers and museums…
30 July 2021 | Tony Bravo | San Francisco Chronicle The ongoing movement to reconsider, and sometimes remove, some public monuments and artworks has taken aim at what many agree are outdated and problematic symbols: Confederate generals, Christopher Columbus and Junipero Serra,…
Photo: Jerry Garcia circa 1976 – Youtube Screenshot Mr Garcia talks about life, music, “Row Jimmy Row” and the then-current Dead album: I think Blues For Allah was the first record we’ve made in years where we really had fun.…
Photo: Ulchi girl – Amur river, Far East of Siberia, Russian Federation In agreement with the United Nations Department of Global Communication, IPS is pleased to share with it’s global readers, the UN exhibit ‘The World in Faces’, a powerful collection of…
Photo: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly by Sergio Leone is a classic example of dubbed post-war European film. Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy As an English-speaker in Europe I must say I was surprised (and disappointed) to discover that, in some…
Photo: Haunani-Kay Trask in an undated photo. As a professor, poet and activist, she pushed for the recognition of Hawaii’s Indigenous people. “I am not soft, I am not sweet, and I do not want any more tourists in Hawaii,” she…
R&B Records in this sketchy neighborhood out past West Philly, July/August 2021 | RICHARD GRANT; PHOTOGRAPHS BY JASON VARNEY | Smithsonian Magazine I first heard about Val Shively—a legendary figure among serious record collectors—from a friend of mine in Philadelphia…
Photo: Odalys de la Caridad Lara Reyes entertains employees by reading to them as they work making cigars at the La Corona Tobacco factory in Havana.(Ismael Francisco / Associated Press) 02 July 2021 | ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ | AP via Los Angleles…
03 July 2021 | RICK MOORE | American Songwriter | Includes additional videos and articles. Some songwriters write for an entire lifetime and never see much success, or never have their work publicly acknowledged, good as it may be. And…
