Art.
Painting, illustration and photography from the artists we've carried for two decades. Every piece runs at full size, uncropped — free to read, like everything else here.
Quote to Ponder: “The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism…” – Frantz Fanon
The Black Commentator
February 1, 2012
Art – John Coltrane
Chuck Siler Carrollton TX
January 26, 2012
Quote to Ponder: “I’m worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel – let the wheel spin around them as it wants without taking a look at what they’re doing. I’m concerned that students not become passive acceptors of the official doctrine that’s handed down to them from the White House, the media, textbooks, teachers and preachers.” – Howard Zinn
The Black Commentator
January 26, 2012
Art: Homage to the Tuskegee Airmen
Kadir Nelson San Diego CA
January 19, 2012
Quote to Ponder: “Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.” – Bertrand Russell
The Black Commentator
January 19, 2012
Art: OWS
Shepard Fairey Los Angeles CA
January 12, 2012
![Quote to Ponder: “Wall Street owns the country.. . .Money rules.. . .The [political] parties lie to us and the political speakers mislead us.” - Mary Elizabeth Lease (1890)](https://blackcommentator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/454_quote_money_rules_lease_up-1.gif)
Quote to Ponder: “Wall Street owns the country.. . .Money rules.. . .The [political] parties lie to us and the political speakers mislead us.” – Mary Elizabeth Lease (1890)
The Black Commentator
January 12, 2012
Art: Dance Class
Jim Alexander Photography Atlanta GA
January 5, 2012
Quote to Ponder: “We continually set before us the successful rich man as more typical of what America means than the student or the philanthropist or the unselfish man of small income and simple tastes.” – W.E.B. Du Bois
The Black Commentator
January 5, 2012
Art: Life is a Song
Margaret Warfield Atlanta GA
December 15, 2011
Quote to Ponder: “If building more prisons for those of us who are unlike yourselves …” – Leonard Peltier
The Black Commentator
December 15, 2011
![Quote to Ponder: "I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing..." - Malcolm X [el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz]](https://blackcommentator.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/451_quote_opressed_clash_malcolm_up.gif)
Quote to Ponder: “I believe that there will ultimately be a clash between the oppressed and those who do the oppressing…” – Malcolm X [el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz]
The Black Commentator
December 8, 2011
Art – Corporation
Doug Minkler Berkeley CA
December 1, 2011
Quote to Ponder: “Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.” – Abrose Bierce
The Black Commentator
December 1, 2011
Quote to Ponder: “We return thanks to our mother, the earth, which sustains us…” – Iroquois Prayer of Thanksgiving
The Black Commentator
November 24, 2011
Art: Sacred Path
Joseph Chamberlain Native American Artist, South Dakota
November 24, 2011
Art: Michael
Kadir Nelson San Diego CA
November 10, 2011
Quote to Ponder: “The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe.” – Che Guevara
The Black Commentator
November 10, 2011
Art: Art As A Weapon – Video
The Black Commentator
November 3, 2011
Quote to Ponder: “The white man knows how to make everything, but…” – Sitting Bull (Tatanka Iyotake)
The Black Commentator
November 3, 2011
Art: Day Dream
Kadir Nelson San Diego CA
October 20, 2011
Quote to Ponder: “Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.” – Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture)
The Black Commentator
October 20, 2011
Art: Documentary Portrait Photography – Pete Seeger
George Keswick Documentary and Portrait Photography
October 13, 2011
Quote to Ponder: “A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person…” – A. Philip Randolph
The Black Commentator
October 13, 2011