There is a sense of the grotesque about a person who has spent his or her life in a kind of cotton batting. There is something monstrous about never having been hurt, never having been made to bleed, never having lost anything, never having gained anything because life is beautiful, and in order to keep it beautiful you’re going to stay just the way you are and you’re not going to test your theory against all the possibilities outside. America is something like that. -James Baldwin

Why blacks aren’t embracing Occupy Wall Street - The Washington Post ›

Now documentary filmmaker Angela Tucker (Invisible Men, (A)sexual) brings us an exploration of the ideas typically associated with blackness in the forthcoming web series Black Folk Don’t.

(via femmenoire)

[currently watching:]

A History Lesson For Chris Brown

TAVIS SMILEY | Anthony Mackie | PBS

Mackie shares his thoughts on the recent “Blackout” at the 2011 Academy

inothernews:

jesshullinger:

New York’s 9th District Representative, Democrat Anthony Weiner, reacts to a Republican-sponsored bill that would redefine the definition of rape in an attempt to reduce government funding of abortion.

Some quotes:

“Don’t let anyone who supports this bill ever say to you, ‘I’m for less government regulation.’ You’ve gotta be kidding. You can’t vote for this thing and then say you’re for less government regulation. This is the regulation of an individual woman in a room with her doctor — and Congressman Pitts, evidently.”

“I think most Americans of all political stripes believe there’s a basic right to privacy. Is there anything more basic than your body?”

(Original source here.)

RSA Animate - Changing Education Paradigms

…very interesting.