Life Is Tragic Simply Because The Earth Turns And The Sun Inexorably Risesand Sets, And One Day, For

Guerrillera de la "Organización del Pueblo en Armas en las montañas." Guatemala. Junio, 1982. Photo: Pedro Valtierra

The Black Panthers fed more hungry kids than the state of California

It wasn’t all young men and guns: the Black Panther Party’s programs fed more hungry kids than the state of California

The Black Panther’s Free Breakfast for Children Program is probably their best-known initiative, the press finding an intriguing story juxtaposing the Panther’s tough-guy-in-leather-jacket image with the act of serving small children plates of hot food. Importantly, it was mostly women who led these survival programmes, and women made up a majority of the Panther membership. They served in leadership roles from ‘Officer of the Day’ (essentially the office – and people – manager for each branch), to organising the many details of a location’s breakfast programme to initiating and leading food justice, healthcare and housing programmes within neighbourhoods.

So why does the image of the Panthers as a masculinist and violent organisation persist? The answer lies in part with media distortion, influenced both by the sexism and racism that misrepresented the Panthers. There was also a misinformation campaign by the FBI, led by J Edgar Hoover, waged against the increasingly popular Panthers, which had an enduring impact on how people saw them.

I fidanzati (Ermanno Olmi, 1963)

Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky

Happy 88th, Otar Iosseliani.

With Michel Piccoli in 2012. Photo by Fabio Lovino.

Hieronymus Bosch - Scenes from the Passion of Christ, Reverse of Painting “Saint John the Evangelist”. 1489

“Back in 1924, he [Paul Robeson] was rehearsing the last act of The Emperor Jones, and script called for Jones to exit, hands in his pocket, whistling a tune. Robeson said he couldn’t whistle. The director said, ‘Well, hum… or sing, if you want to.’ And that’s the beginning of his singing career.”

— From the documentary Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist (dir. Saul J. Turell, 1979)

Roden Crater is a cinder cone type of volcanic cone from an extinct volcano, with a remaining interiorvolcanic crater. It is located northeast of the city of Flagstaff in northern Arizona, United States.

Satellite view of Roden Crater, the site of an earthwork in progress by James Turrell outside Flagstaff, Arizona.

Pierre Boucher, Femme-fleur, inversion négatif-positif, solarisation et photogramme, 1937