Daily Archives: March 8, 2011

Art of the Political Poster at the Oakland Museum – @COLORLINES

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Art of the Political Poster at the Oakland Museum

Poster illustration by DignidadRebelde.com

“Last October, the Oakland Museum of California was gifted the “All Of Us Or None” poster collection of 23,500 political posters collected by Michael Rossman, a free speech activist from Berkeley. The posters document almost every political movement in the U.S. between the 1960s and the 1990s, particularly the time between 1965 and 1985 in the Bay Area. The collection covers a wide-range of topics including the Black Panther Party, police brutality, and war.”

via  COLORLINES.

The story of Radmilla Cody, first Miss Navajo of African descent, told in a new film

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Radmilla and her sister

Radmilla Cody

“Radmilla Cody knows the way home. It’s not an easy journey. The dirt roads are canoe-shaped and gouged by rain. They curl around hills and plunge into deep draws, finally bringing us to the family homestead near Grand Falls, on the Navajo Reservation.

Cody grew up on these lonesome sage flats. Her Navajo mother, Margaret, took off to Georgia shortly after giving birth to Cody at age 18. Her father, Troy Davis, was a 43-year-old black man who worked as a driver for a Ford dealer in Flagstaff. Her grandmother, Dorothy, raised her the Navajo way.”

via High Country News.

Visit her website http://www.radmillacody.net/