‘Wattstax’: The ‘Black Woodstock’ music festival
The Watts Riots are often referred to by lefties as “The Watts Rebellion.” While both are technically accurate descriptions, “rebellion” is considered the preferable word…
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Johnny Cash’s musical ad for the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, 1971
You are in no position to give health advice, Mr. Johnny Cash! Johnny Cash certainly lived his paradoxes–a champion of the rebel, yet oddly reverent…
Lesbian emojis are as adorable as they are sapphic!
As you can see, subtlety is a valued principle in today’s contemporary art. Graphic designer Kimberly Linn and writer/actor Katie Streeter have breached the latest…
White House memo suggests Nixon ‘neutralize’ Johnny Cash, 1970
Richard Nixon’s presidency was marked by a legendarily thick air of paranoia. Dick feared the Democrats–sure, but he also feared Jews, intellectuals, black people, Mexicans…
‘Koyaanisqatsi’ director’s dystopian PSA for The New Mexico Civil Liberties Union, 1974
Godfrey Reggio is best known for the first installment of his avant-garde “Qatsi” trilogy, Koyaanisqatsi: Life Out of Balance. The 1982 film was a Philip…