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  Black Radical Brooklyn

  Freed But Not Free

  September 17, 2014 - 

  As part of Creative Time’s exhibition “Funk, God, Jazz, and Medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn,” a collaboration with Weeksville Heritage Center, Creative Time Reports is featuring essays related to the history of African-American struggles for self-determination in Brooklyn. Here, the writer Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts meditates on the limits to freedom imposed by a legacy of institutionalized racism.  More

  By Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts

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  Black Radical Brooklyn

  Tempus Fugit in the People’s Republic of BK

  September 17, 2014 - 

  As part of Creative Time’s exhibition “Funk, God, Jazz, and Medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn,” a collaboration with Weeksville Heritage Center, the writer and musician Greg Tate evokes a time and place he calls “Original Brooklyn: the radically Black BK of haute culture and avant-cult leaders.”  More

  By Greg Tate

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  Op-Ed

  Spatial Justice: Rasquachification, Race and the City

  September 15, 2014 - 

  Intervening in discussions about gentrification and placemaking, cultural activist Roberto Bedoya champions the creative resilience found in communities of color—and exemplified by the Chicano practice of Rasquachification—to suggest “placekeeping” as a strategy for advancing racial justice goals.  More

  By Roberto Bedoya

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  Editor's Letter

  Clearing the Air: Artists Take on Corporate Influence in Natural History Museums

  September 2, 2014 - 

  Ahead of the People’s Climate March, Creative Time Reports Editor Marisa Mazria Katz speaks with the artist collective Not An Alternative about their Natural History Museum, a new project that confronts the unsavory influence of corporate cash on science institutions.  More

  By Marisa Mazria Katz and Not An Alternative

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  Op-Ed

  The United States Wants the World to Forget These Prisoners

  July 21, 2014 - 

  A product of the war on terror, Communications Management Units (CMUs) have cut hundreds of Americans—most of whom are Muslim—off from the outside world, often by labeling their acts of dissent “terrorism.”  More

  By Molly Crabapple