Lightly running my fingertips over the concrete wall, I wonder how many other men have been here, how many other times someone has walked in and heard the metal door heavily slam shut behind them, to be left standing alone in this empty cell. Although I’m alone in the cell, a nonstop cacophony continuously bombards [...]
Finally got to meet my friend Brian in person for the first time today. He’s a great guy, does a lot of important work at the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center, among other things. I met him while I was in prison, through the UC Books to Prisoners project, and they published a couple things I [...]
A march and rally in support of freeing the Jena 6 was held in Chicago today (September 9, 2007). Read more about the Jena 6 here, here, here, here, and here. Organized by Tenisha Wilkerson, the 20-year-old coordinator of the Midwest Committee for the Jena 6, the march started just after 11:30AM. The route of [...]
Here are a few pics I took of the Revolution setup and volunteers who were distributing the paper and talking with people at the African Festival of the Arts in Chicago on Setpember 3rd - didn’t get around to posting them till now because of class and the Aaron Harrison thing that happened earlier that [...]
On August 6th 2007, 18-year-old Aaron Harrison was enjoying a summer night hanging out in front of the corner store at Roosevelt and Francisco on the West Side of Chicago when the police rolled up. A few minutes later, Aaron was dead, fatally shot in the back by the Chicago police, who claimed he pointed [...]
This photo set is very interesting… The site’s author says:
Yesterday at the flea market I picked up a small cosmetics case stuffed with photos almost all of which were of the same woman. The bulk of the photos were photobooths and portraits documenting her as she aged over the course of about 50 years or [...]
Here’s an amazing video of a 360-degree holographic display created by researchers at USC:
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