https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA7AIQw-7Ms “Him and I” by G-Eazy and Halsey is a song from 2017 that presents a sort of Bonnie and Clyde love-story the song’s lyrics depict the two lovers/partners in crime living a fast and hard lifestyle. the song lyrics read. Throughout the the song there are various phrases and lines in which the couple of the song…
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Minor Moves Project
Your Reading Black Matter Annotation projects will be incorporated as one of the projects on the Minor Moves Project site. You can access that site via http://www.minormovesproject.org.
Death Bed Identity
Waring Cuney, one of the contributors of poetry to the October-31st-published issue of FIRE!!, speaks in “The Death Bed” of a black man’s thoughts as his life is coming to a close, upon the bed the title deems his death bed. Upon their deathbeds, it is common for individuals to reflect upon their identities, molded…
Space Traders: From Pages to Screens
The sci-fi elements that are developed in the short story “Space Traders” by Derrick Bell allows for the existence of a fantastical, yet very relatable, world in which an unlikely event brings forth arguments centered around race. Aliens from another world are shown to make contact with earth and present a trade, giving the United…
Reimagining “Box Brown”: Visual Allusion in Freedom Song: The Story of Henry ‘Box’ Brown
Both the 1851 Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself and Sally Walker’s 2011 Freedom Song: The Story of Henry ‘Box’ Brown illustrated by Sean Qualls begin with a depiction of Brown’s birth, but very quickly the texts diverge. Walker and Qualls’s children’s adaption of Brown’s 1851 narrative re-visions the scene of Brown’s…
Matters of Looking: Panorama and Abolition
“Panoramas: 19th Century Virtual Reality.” Shannon Selin: Imagining the Bounds of History. <www.shannonselin.com> Accessed Jan 31, 2019. “Virtual Reality, 19th-Century Style: The History of the Panorama and the Balloon View.” Open Learn. April 13, 2017<www.openlearn.edu> Accessed Jan 31, 2019.
Formation
All Of Beyonce’s ‘Lemonade’ References & Cameos In One Handy Chart By Jamie Primeau in Bustle (6/28/16). Deconstructing Lemonade: Everything You Need to Know About Beyoncé’s New Visual Album By Patricia Garcia in Vogue (6/26/16). Everything You Need to Know About Beyoncé’s New Visual Album, Lemonade By Dee Lockett in The Vulture (6/24/16).
Black Matter 