This is lovely work.

Gina Beavers
"Duct-tape Banana Nails", 2020
acrylic on linen on panel
30 x 24 x 3 in.

Ed Fraga
"Goddess", 2023
watercolor, color pencil,
pencil on paper
12 1/2 x 11 1/2 in.

Phyllis Yao
"Kyle’s Star Spiral", 2023
oil on canvas
8 x 9 in.

Frank Wimberely
"Yardbird", 1989
Acrylic, mixed media,
collage on paper
22 x 25 3/8 in.

Frank Wimberely
"Wrinkles", 1994
mixed media collage
22 1/4 x 30 in.

Frank Wimberley
"Louse Point Reverie", 1991
acrylic on canvas
46 x 46 in
Collection of Smithsonian
American Art Museum,
Washington, D.C.

Peter Williams
“Sandra Bland”, 2016
oil on canvas
72 x 60 in.

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Augustana College student's contemporary essay about the event attributed to Victoria D. Gillon
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Peter Williams
"Barcelona", 2004
oil on canvas
48 x 36 in.

Duncan Hannah
"Rome", 2013
oil on canvas
20 x 16 in

Police Function Criminal Justice Standards for Police Function. Copyright by the American Bar Association. This work (Criminal Justice Standards) may be used for non-profit educational and training purposes and legal...

American Bar Association Police Functions and Criminal Justice Standards
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International Association of Police Chiefs Code of Ethics
www.theiacp.org/resources/po...

For the various types of officers and respective duties.
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‘Legally speaking’ they’re there to protect the public and its citizens. ‘Historically speaking’ they were devised to protect and return private property (notably, fugitive slaves) and state owned property. They still tend to privilege their historical role.

Kerry James Marshall
"Study for Souvenir II", 1997
charcoal on paper
37 1/2 x 24 in

Susan Hauptman
"Still Life Pear", 2012
charcoal on paper
26 x 32 in.

Philip Guston,
"Riding Around", 1969
oil on canvas
54 x 79 in.

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Nick Fuentes: “Let's get all the towel heads on one side. We'll get all the tiny hats on the other. ... And we can send them all right back to the Middle East.”

Fuentes’ mindset is likely a wonder on to itself

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Fuentes is notoriously antisemitic. Smith is a Jewish kid from Brooklyn.

The 1st Black Panther I ever bought; 2 issues after that one.

Jungle Action 19 (7103)

Ed Fraga
"Smoking my cigar in the wild west", 2023
latex, oil on burlap
76 x 49 in.

Gwenaël Kerlidou
"Piece criblée (St Sebastien)", 2023
Spray paint on tinted canvas
and spray paint on wall
49"x 42" in. 13 parts

Writing well and curiously about a subject, a critic’s indigenous tastes notwithstanding but context somewhat understood, is a critic’s task. Music comes from such a wide range of social make-ups. The issue might be can a grown-up adequately write about or remember the emotional tenor of teenagers.

“…many Black Americans saw him negatively, felt he betrayed his race. I was struck by Booker T Washington’s comments…”

Respectability politics being the ongoing social discourse, the subtext how to better assimilate into perceived Anglosphere. Johnson, an American, showed a spirit of independence.

Technological development and globalism makes our era uniquely dangerous for human civilization. But for Jack Johnson I dare say the Jim Crow era was far worse then than it would be for such a man now.

Context of individual success is generally more definitive than particular human flaws. Social features of an era make the difference; eg, 1) a president has an affair with an intern in one era is scorned; 2) a president is a convicted serial sexual abuser/predator, celebrated/tolerated.

He was a giant of his time. A beautiful, thoughtful, and naturally gifted man. In spite of societal resistance to his earned status, and the subsequent effort to destroy him, he did well. Miles Davis loved Johnson’s lore, as did painter Jean-Michel Basquiat and comedian Richard Pryor.

Sandra Fisher
"Cosima in a Black Hat
(Spender's Granddaughter)", 1992
oil on canvas
15 3/4 x 11 7/8 in.

Federico Cantù,
"The poet François Villon seated
before a table in the company
of a cat, a woman and
a bird of prey", 1946
Engraving
18 11/16 × 13 3/8 in.

Al Held
Flemish IV, 1972
Acrylic on canvas
60 x 60 inches

Agnes Martin
Untitled, 1946
watercolor on paper
15 3/4 x 20 5/8 in.