“There are advances in technology and enabling voices, but there are issues with the stories themselves. I think people of color are still not seen as human beings. They're still associated with types, with comedy, but we're in a crisis right now, with things like Black Lives Matter. We need films that address these issues.” PeopleThinkingNeedsHumansStillsMatterStoriesFilmBlackVoiceHuman BeingsTechnologyIssuesComedyColorTypeRight NowCrisisAddressesBlack Lives MatterEnablingBlack Lives Author:Charles Burnett
“HIV criminalization is a global trend, but surprisingly Canada has some of the worst HIV laws in the world - they have incarcerated 200 people to date who have not infected anyone, and half of them are black. This is emotional manipulation that began as an anti-immigrant measure and has devolved into an exploitation of sexual anxiety. It's a crisis of meaning.” PeopleWorldLawBlackHalfWorstEmotionalAnxietyCrisisCanadaImmigrantsManipulationTrendsExploitationHiv Author:Sarah Schulman
“People look at the future and see a black hole. They look at climate change and see an ecological crisis. They look at their leaders corrupted by money and see a political crisis. They wonder if they'll ever be able to pay off their student loan or own a house. Given this ecological, political and financial crisis, what they want is a different future. Their fundamental demand is a different regime to provide that future.” PeopleDifferentPoliticalHouseBlackLeaderWonderStudentsCrisisClimate ChangeFinancialLoanEcologicalFinancial CrisisBlack HoleStudent Loan Author:Kalle Lasn
“That's how I am and how I've always looked at the world. I understood what the pavilions were before I came to Venice, and I knew that wasn't going to be enough for me. I wanted to extend this conversation into something I call urgency. There is urgency with people in crisis. Some communities - often the black community - just live in this urgency.” PeopleWorldEnoughBlackCommunityCrisisUrgencyJust Live Author:Mark Bradford
“I think Black Nativity movie has a very clear message. It's about a family in crisis facing some of the very familiar struggles we face in our communities. It's really about love, redemption, forgiveness, faith and family, the things that have gotten us through so many hard times, and that continue to get us through them. When times are hard, we need each other.” ThinkingBlackCommunityStruggleCrisisFamiliarRedemptionHard Times Author:Kasi Lemmons
“I guess I've always had such an identity crisis when it comes to other people's understanding of me. I don't feel it in myself but from an outsider's point of view, I can see they must be thinking, "Who the hell does this guy think he is?" But recently I've been thinking, okay, a white guy can't sing soul, but would a black person be made exempt from singing opera because it's not a tradition that belongs to them? It's the same kind of argument.” ThinkingKindSoulGuyUnderstandingBlackHellIdentitySingingArgumentTraditionOkayCrisisPoint Of View Author:Jamie Lidell
“If half-black Barack Obama had decided years ago to call himself white - which his genes certainly entitled him to do - his story would have carried very different meaning. If millions of part-black people had followed him into whiteness, then the N.A.A.C.P. would be in true crisis.” PeopleIfsYearsDifferentStoriesWould BeBlackWhiteHalfMillionsYears AgoDecidedCrisisBarackBlack PeopleGenesEntitledWhitenessDifferent Meanings Author:Eric Liu
“The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency.” WarAmericaBlackWhiteMiddlePeriodsCrisisSlaveryDuesCivil WarBlack And WhiteEmergenciesAbolitionSuspendedDecorum Book:America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines Source: America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines
“We're in crisis mode as black actresses. It's not only in the sheer number of roles that are offered and that are out there, but the quality of the roles. The quality - and therein lies the problem. We're in deprivation mode because me, Alfre and Phylicia, we're in the same category. Whereas if you take a Caucasian actress, you have the one who are the teens, in their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s - they're all different. There are roles for each of them. But you only have two or three categories for black actresses.” IfsTwoDifferentProblemLyingThreeBlackNumbersQualityRolesCrisisActressesCategoriesTeensSheerDeprivationCaucasian Author:Viola Davis
“The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.” PoliticalBlackDevelopmentCrisisStructureProgressiveMultiracial Book:Beyond Boundaries: The Manning Marable Reader Source: Beyond Boundaries: The Manning Marable Reader
“I care not what black spiritual crisis we may come through or what delightful spiritual Canaan we may enter, no blessing of the Christian life becomes continually possessed unless we are men and women of regular, daily, unhurried secret lingerings in prayer.” MenMayCareChristianSpiritualBlackPrayerSecretBlessingMen And WomenCrisisChristian LifePossessedI CareDelightfulLingeringSpiritual Crisis Author:J. Sidlow Baxter