A Blog We Love: Black Acrylic

Black Acrylic is a delightfully personal Pan-Africanist mix of commentary on art, style, socio-politics, music and other things. A post (from which the above image comes) on reclaiming the cult of beauty had me with this: “Eager for anything that diverts from the script we gluttonously praise tokenism (e.g Tika Sumpter on Gossip Girl) and fetishism (e.g Vogue Italia Black Issue). Deep down we just want to publicly exist outside [...]

 

If you watch one thing...

The film Lord’s Children is about three formerly kidnapped Ugandan children efforts to reenter society and deal with their trauma after being held captive (some as sex slaves or soldiers) by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). The film, which recently aired on PBS, takes place at the Pajule Rehabilitation center in Northern Uganda. It is estimated that the LRA kidnapped close to 65,000 children, some as young as five, over [...]