Look At Where We Are

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It’s the living that’s bombocloth hard.

Burn-skin white man don’t want peace, he want Jamaica to become the USA state number fifty-one, shit, he would settle for just a colony.

some people still think white skin give him the authority to speak to anybody any way he feel like, especially man who don’t know word like authority.

But don’t eat crab? Not even with the nice, soft, sweet roast yam? And why kill a man for that?

A Brief History of Seven Killings: A Novel, Marlon James

Hot Chip – Look At Where We Are (Major Lazer Extended Remix), written by Hot Chip, Diplo & Major Lazer, 2013.

MiamiHerald.com on the billboard at PAMM.

“This project is sensitive to the context of PAMM and the surrounding neighborhood, and is less than 20 percent of the size of approximately fifty 10,000 square foot advertising signs that are already installed in the immediately surrounding downtown area,” Orange Barrel said. City rules requiring the PAMM sign to go dark after 11 p.m. and brightness restrictions “will ensure the sign does not create any negative impact.”

Black Internationalism

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The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism (Harvard University Press, 2003),

The Practice of Diaspora is nothing short of a masterpiece. By looking at the way black life, thought, struggles and quite literally, words, are translated across the black Francophone and Anglophone worlds, Edwards reveals how Paris became a locus for the development of black modernism and internationalism during the crucial interwar years. Rather than search for some essential unity, he explores difference, creative tensions, misapprehensions and misunderstandings between key black intellectuals. The result is a spectacular interdisciplinary study that will profoundly change the way we think about the African diaspora.–Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination

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—just an ache that grew

until she knew she’d already lost everything

except desire, the red heft of it

warming her outstretched palm.

I Have Been a Stranger in a Strange Land, Rita Dove

Il te tient il est plus fort que toi

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Isaac Julien

Ogun’s Return (Once Again… Statues Never Die), 2022
Inkjet print on Canson Platine Fibre Rag
Framed: 60 1/4 x 79 7/8 x 2 1/4 inches / 153 x 203 x 5.6 cm
Edition of 6 + 2 APs

One of the edition is in the Collection Pérez Art Museum Miami, museum purchase with funds provided by Jorge M. Pérez, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and the PAMM Ambassadors for Black Art.

Metal sculpture on grass and seen against tree canopies
Sculpture at Maurice A. Ferré Park managed by by the Bayfront Park Management Trust.

“Mais soudain il te tient le poème
Comme si ta volonté n’importait pas
Il te tient il est plus fort que toi
Il est sous ta peau
Il se cache dans ton sang”

Entre minuit et l’éternité, Kettly Mars