Figure drawings. Anime. Study List!!!! Costume design 1&2. Prometheus bound. Periods and styles. Report On Police Violence Against African-American Women. Ta-Nehisi Coates launches tour for 'Between the World and Me' at Baltimore's Union Baptist Church. The Baltimore-born author Ta-Nehisi Coates came to Baltimore on Wednesday night to launch his second book — about the roots of violence against black Americans — three months after Freddie Gray suffered a fatal injury while riding in a police van.
Coates, who was in town for the national launch of "Between the World and Me," made just a brief allusion to Gray's death when he addressed the crowd of 600 who filled Union Baptist Church. But he talked at length about Kalief Browder, the New York man who was held for three years in prison — including nearly two years in solitary confinement — on suspicion of having stolen a backpack. Coates had finished his book before Browder, 22, committed suicide last month. Black America is so very tired of explaining and debating. Black America is tired.
The liminal existence of Ellison’s invisible man; Cornel West’s brilliant meditation on “niggerization” as a state of existential fear, where black and brown people are unwanted, unprotected and unsafe in America; and the genius insights of Richard Wright’s “Native Son” speak to a stalwart resilience in the face of the racial absurdity that is white supremacy and the color line in America (and the world). Black Americans are the moral conscience of the United States. Black America is strong. But “Black America” is more of a symbol and an idea than it is a place or a fact. Black Americans are not a monolith, the Borg, or a hive mind.
(Alice Childress) Female black playwrights.