John Akomfrah, Testament, Ghana/Great Britain, 1988, 76 min, English subtitles, © Promo.
Ousmane Sembène, La noire de… (Black Girl), Film still, Senegal 1966, 65 min
Scenes from 1963 March on Washington. The march was documented by James Blue and restored by the US National Archives. The *entire film can be seen on the US National Archives Youtube Channel.
*The audio from 23:13 to 29:44 in this film has been redacted due to a copyright restriction by Dr. King’s family
Sun Ra’s Business Cards
The ideas of the dominant class are the dominant ideas not by virtue of their innate logic, consistency, or correspondence to truth—but by virtue of the powerful gun that fires them across the globe and into the people’s faces, minds, and against their analytic faculties.
Hamid Dabashi, Post-Orientalism: Knowledge and Power in Time of Terror. (via yallabina)
DJ Premier and Mobb Deep
Iggy Pop, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1977, by Mats Bäcker
The Quietus | Mike Watt's Favourite Albums
'D. Boon said punk was whatever you wanted it to be. Here you had The Pop Group putting Beefheart with Funkadelic… and why the fuck not! Why not put Beefheart with Funkadelic?! It's like that Jam song 'Art School': “Do what you want/ This is the new art school”.'
