By Kevin Filipski
"This movie is about what people think but never say
aloud - that’s what makes people uncomfortable," says Nicole
Smith, star of the new independent feature, "Rocky Road."
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By Lisa J. Curtis
Terry Boddie
and Nicole Awai’s exhibit "Panyard" is on view now
at the Five Myles gallery [558 St. Johns Place, (718) 783-4438]
through Sept. 22. (Left to right) Boddie and Awai are pictured
in front of "Gayelle," or stick fighting arena, one
of the features of their multimedia installation which evokes
the physical and psychological space of the panyard, the incubator
of the Caribbean carnival.
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By Paulanne Simmons
On a hot May night in 1951, a 30-year-old woman, attorney
Bella Abzug, returned to Jackson, Miss., to appeal the conviction
of her client, Willie McGee, a black man wrongly accused of raping
a white woman. Although Abzug had booked a room in advance, the
hotel refused to honor the reservation and no other room could
be found. So Abzug, who was pregnant at the time, spent the night
in the bus station, and the next day argued McGee’s case in front
of justices for six hours.
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By Lisa J. Curtis
While the Brooklyn Museum of Art has been
both critiqued and celebrated the last couple of years for exercising
their First Amendment rights, the institution dramatically revealed
its patriotic streak Wednesday by lifting its admission fee and
unveiling a newly reinstalled American art collection, "American
Identities."
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By Lisa J. Curtis
Red Hook has
recently been the inspiration for a number of artists in a variety
of media.
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