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This is a book I’m trying to check out. I think you should too. BLAMMMM!!! Peep this:

“Soul Power” is a cultural history of those whom Cynthia A. Young calls “U.S. Third World Leftists,” activists of color who appropriated theories and strategies from Third World anticolonial struggles in their fight for social and economic justice in the United States during the “long 1960s.” Nearly thirty countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America declared formal independence in the 1960s alone. Arguing that the significance of this wave of decolonization to U.S. activists has been vastly underestimated, Young describes how literature, films, ideologies, and political movements that originated in the Third World were absorbed by U.S. activists of color. She shows how these transnational influences were then used to forge alliances, create new vocabularies and aesthetic forms, and describe race, class, and gender oppression in the United States in compelling terms.

Young analyzes a range of U.S. figures and organizations, examining how each deployed Third World discourse toward various cultural and political ends. She considers a trip that LeRoi Jones, Harold Cruse, and Robert F. Williams made to Cuba in 1960; traces key intellectual influences on Angela Y. Davis’s writing; and reveals the early history of the hospital workers’ 1199 union as a model of U.S. Third World activism. She investigates Newsreel, a late 1960s activist documentary film movement, and its successor, Third World Newsreel, which produced a seminal 1972 film on the Attica prison rebellion. She also considers the L.A. Rebellion, a group of African and African American artists who made films about conditions in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. By demonstrating the breadth, vitality, and legacy of the workof U.S. Third World Leftists, “Soul Power” firmly establishes their crucial place in the history of twentieth-century American struggles for social change.

 
Allison Gay, one of the illist photographers here in Atlanta but she doesn’t act like it. Funky Fresh Professional that will turn feelings into pictures and those same pictures into feelings of multiple levels. Word real people, you need to check her out. Sometinmes words aren’t enough so lets explore the great work shell we. BLAMMM: 

 You want to talk about soul? This joint got it poppin in the streets. HAAAA! Word up! At first look… I didn’t know if i was old or new because the design work accomplished what it was suppose to. Top to bottom, I’m telling you… Mannn, I’m not going to give a full review. Matter of fact, all I’m gon say is it’s BANGIN and check it out! FANGGGGG! Clip PLEASE: 

This is something we all should be aware of. I’m watching the joint now. The Illa Killa Kalm just put me on to the flyness! BLAMMMMMM!