By Ericka Blount Danois Living Colour’s, Shade, their first new studio album in eight years dropped September 8th on Megaforce Records. The cover art begins to tell the story of this album. The artwork was created by D.C. based mixed media artist Anike Robinson, with input from band members, including vocalist Corey Glover, guitarist Vernon…
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Though most political conversation on social media is saturated with wholly unproductive anti-Trump rhetoric, Uncle Ben is out here on a sunken place parade and we need to pay closer attention.
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Prison has long been central to the maintenance of a racial, social and class structure in the United States. Prisons are used like society’s credit card. Societal contradictions which generate enormous wealth and inequality are masked by mass incarcerating those forcibly removed as a result just as credit cards mask the contradiction of stagnant wages for labor and enormous production of goods, services and wealth for bosses and owners. Thus, prisons, jails and their captives (both real and employed) are everywhere.
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