Arts and Culture
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Sub: The View from the Teaching Underclass
By Joshua Freeman Shortly after graduating college, when I thought we would seize state power in a couple months, or maybe a couple of years, I took a job as a substitute school teacher in Worcester, Massachusetts. Assigned to a junior high school — this was before the new-fangled middle school became the norm —…
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Pushing Through Doors: Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing”
By Zenzile Greene On the heels of the Spike Lee Retrospective being shown at BAM Cinematek through July 11th, I would like to present a piece I wrote up on assignment for my “Culture Through Film” class taken this past fall at the School of Professional studies. The course, taught by Professor Kelley Kawano, was…
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Gods Are Not The Kind Of Machines That Last
By Greg McDonald I wrote a psalm for Jesus while I was sleeping. It turns out differences are settled with cross words in the new world, that rules are measured in miles like horses, then discarded, that night is the breaking of bread, the welter of birds it affords, the cove where Christ gorges on…
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Jayne Cortez, “Find Your Own Voice”
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-moyZ7Rld2w] A Dialogue Between Voice and Drums,” live at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy, NY on October 23, 2010. “A firespitting evening with drummer Denardo Coleman, featuring a voice celebrated for her political, surrealistic, dynamic innovations in lyricism, and visceral sound. Cortez’s literary work and impassioned activism, inspired by the ideals of…
