Month: October 2016
Art of Africa 2120
Modesty
A Cut Above
THE CRUX OF IT: Self Determination. A barber shop in Ypsilanti, Michigan introduced a program that offers a $2 discount to any child that reads a book aloud to their barber. Ryan Griffin is the barber at the Fuller Cut who brought the discount program to the shop. He relayed that he was inspired […]
An Award Worthy Must See!
THE CRUX OF IT: AN EPIC TAKE DOWN!
Indigenous People’s Day
THE CRUX OF IT: FUCK Columbus The idea of celebrating Indigenous People’s Day was first proposed nearly 40 years ago, when a delegation of Native nations to a U.N. conference in Geneva passed a resolution. Berkeley, Calif. and South Dakota became the first city and state, respectively, to replace Columbus […]
PEACE IS…
THE CRUX OF IT: Respectful Remembrance. Peace is the conception of perfection. Peace is not needing to flee to a dream. Peace is an infinite singular emotion. Peace is the balance obtained. Peace is a limitless existence. Peace is an unburdened essence. Peace is the diving and soaring of flight. […]
Royo/Katana
Flipped the Script
THE CRUX OF IT: They won’t even get it… What are the chances that these truths will resonate and realization will set in?
NATURE vs. NURTURE
THE CRUX OF IT: Need demands action. Hurricane Matthew landed with malice on the villages and coastal regions of Haiti this week, accounting for a death toll of 877 at this time. More than 61,000 have been displaced and made homeless by the storm. Due to destruction of basic facilities, outbreaks of […]
Art of Retribution
TRUE COLORS
THE CRUX OF IT: Someone took the time to conceive, film, edit, and broadcast racist stupidity and then call it news. So, I want to understand this- Fox is a news network right? A recently broadcast piece, introduced by O’Reilly, cast further doubts on the legitimacy of that claim. Watch below: […]
Overreach
THE CRUX OF IT: You’re not paranoid if they’re actually watching you. Reuters’s Joseph Menn reported that Yahoo assisted with a wire-tap service and chose to comply with governmental classified “directive” to build “a custom software program to search all of its customers’ incoming emails for specific information to be provided by U.S. intelligence […]
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