Strength Through Struggle

Fri, 17 May 2013 16:04:34 -0400

explore-blog: All of Gotham’s villains, in one giant...

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:56:42 -0400

All of Gotham’s villains, in one giant infographic from Pop Chart Lab, who previously brought us the alphabet of typography, the history of Apple, New York City’s bike lanes, and the composition of classic cocktails.

explore-blog: The constitutions of classic cocktails, from Pop...

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:56:22 -0400

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The constitutions of classic cocktails, from Pop Chart Lab.

explore-blog: Ah, yes. The Cocktail Chart of Film &...

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:55:19 -0400

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Ah, yes. The Cocktail Chart of Film & Literature from Pop Chart Lab, who have previously charted the varieties of coffee, the history of Apple, America’s bike lanes, the composition of classic cocktails, the wonders of serif fonts, Gotham’s villains, and the 64 guitars that defined rock history.

Serve with recipes form The Artists’ & Writers’ Cookbook.

2headedsnake: Marten Tonnis ‘Face 83’, 2012, ink,...

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:53:21 -0400

2headedsnake:

Marten Tonnis

‘Face 83’, 2012, ink, watercolors

‘Congo girl 7’, 2011, ink, watercolors, pantone

‘Indie face’, 2012, inks, watercolors

unhistorical: May 17, 1954: The Supreme Court unanimously rules...

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:38:10 -0400

unhistorical:

May 17, 1954: The Supreme Court unanimously rules public school segregation unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education.

Fifty-nine years ago today, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in a landmark case that the segregation of public schools was prohibited under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment; newly-appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote in the opinion:

Segregation of white and colored children in public schools has a detrimental effect upon the colored children. The impact is greater when it has the sanction of the law; for the policy of separating the races is usually interpreted as denoting the inferiority of the negro group…. We conclude that, in the field of public education, the doctrine of “separate but equal” has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.

The doctrine of “separate but equal” as justification for racial segregation emerged in the United States in the 1890s and was upheld in 1896 in Plessy v. Ferguson, in which the Supreme Court ruled that states could enact racial segregation laws; in the South, this legitimized the dismantlement of Reconstruction Era reform and the South’s enactment of Jim Crow laws. Many states in the North/members of the Union during the Civil War also maintained racially segregated schools — it was the policy of the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas that Oliver L. Brown and twelve other plaintiffs sought to challenge, after all. At the time, the Board’s policy permitted Topeka’s school districts to segregate their elementary and middle schools. Under the direction of the NAACP, each of the plaintiffs enrolled their children in local all-white schools and, when their children were refused enrollment, filed a class action suit in the District Court of Kansas, which subsequently ruled in favor of the Board. This decision took place in 1951.

The case that was heard by the Supreme Court in 1953 was a combination of five similar cases (all backed by the NAACP), including Brown v. Board, which lent the Supreme Court case its name. After much deliberation, including a request to rehear the case after the court failed to reach a decision the first time, the Warren Court banned (in a unanimous decision) the segregation of public schools. The justices were divided on how Brown could be enforced and on the issue of judicial activism versus restraint, though Warren pushed for unanimity to further legitimize the decision and prevent Southern resistance (it did not). Although Brown was a key decision and the first step toward the end of de jure segregation, the path to desegregation was long and rocky; Topeka desegregated its elementary schools within two years, but resistance in the South against the court’s decision and against desegregation was inexorable, resulting in incidents such as the Little Rock Crisis and other manifestations of what Virginian politicians dubbed “massive resistance”.

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Fri, 17 May 2013 13:29:06 -0400

staceythinx: Planet, sun and moon pendants from the Edelstein...

Fri, 17 May 2013 13:00:43 -0400

staceythinx:

Planet, sun and moon pendants from the Edelstein Metalsmiths Etsy store.

Thu, 16 May 2013 16:01:08 -0400

cholafied: Hola Kitty aka Whisperz

Wed, 15 May 2013 18:15:34 -0400

cholafied:

Hola Kitty aka Whisperz

cholafied: Chola McKayla Maroney - Stay Pressed Haters

Wed, 15 May 2013 18:08:03 -0400

cholafied:

Chola McKayla Maroney - Stay Pressed Haters

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Wed, 15 May 2013 12:54:38 -0400

nypl: Was one of Brooklyn’s finest in Harlem in 1939? This Sid...

Fri, 10 May 2013 19:04:18 -0400

nypl:

Was one of Brooklyn’s finest in Harlem in 1939? This Sid Grossman photo of “Harlem Loiterers” from the Prints Collection at NYPL’s Schomburg Center for Research In Black Culture has created quite a stir since being posted to the Center’s Facebook page the other day. Why? Because the man on the right looks a heck of a lot like Jay-Z (for evidence, check out these photos of Jay-Z when he visited The New York Public Library in 2011). Cue Twilight Zone music, right? Schomburg’s Curator of Digital Collections Sylviane A. Diouf found the photo while researching an exhibition, and said, “I was immediately struck by the similarity to Jay-Z and actually laughed out loud … I still hope somebody will tell us who that you man really was.”

So is Jay-Z a time traveler? Is this someone else - anyone know who? What do you think?

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Wed, 01 May 2013 12:03:36 -0400

cordrewired: colorfulsuns: damseling: TRIGGER WARNING:...

Wed, 01 May 2013 12:01:36 -0400

cordrewired:

colorfulsuns:

damseling:

TRIGGER WARNING: RAPE

The asshole holding the sign that says You Deserve Rape is Dean Saxton, he attends the University of Arizona and goes by the name of “Brother Dean Samuel” That’s also him with the racist ass “Ghettopoly”

Per the comment on Buzzfeed

“I can’t wait till he graduates college and a future employer finds all this crap. No one’s going to want to take on this sexual harassment/racist liability. I say we KEEP publishing this stuff, KEEP his name out there, and ensure he dies in a gutter with only his disgusting sign to keep him warm.”

What better place to put it than tumblr?

Please reblog

Maybe we can make this the new “Mitt Romney sucks pass it on”

I GO HERE

I’ve passed this dude a couple times this week, and I’m really surprised/a little bummed no one has kicked his ass yet.

“Vulture’s Wake” by Godhunter We are the...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:33:29 -0400

“Vulture’s Wake” by Godhunter

We are the vultures
Picking apart
what is left
We are the outcast
Welcome to
your death

We survive
off your pain
Scrape the flesh
of what remains

Carrion birds
Carry me away
On my shield
On which I lay

We are the vultures
We are the outcast
We are the vultures
We are the outcast

Let’s take on this world together
Make them understand our demands
(Our demands…)
Let’s scream until our voice gets hoarse
And fight until our backs go out

Let’s take on this world together
Make them understand our demands
(Our demands…)
Let’s scream until our voice gets hoarse
And fight until our backs go out

We are the derelicts
sifting through the debris
We are the deviants
who’ll bring you to your knees

We survive
off your pain
Scrape the flesh
of what remains

Carrion birds
Carry me away
On my shield
On which I lay

We are the vultures
We are the outcast
We are the vultures
We are the outcast

Let’s take on this world together
Make them understand our demands
(Our demands…)
Let’s scream until our voice gets horse
And fight until our backs go out

Let’s take on this world together
Make them understand our demands
(Our demands…)
Let’s scream until our voice gets horse
And fight until our backs go out

We are the vultures
We are the vultures