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: “Every great dream begins with a dreamer…” – Harriet Tubman
The Black Commentator
October 16, 2008
Art: All Stars
Jim Alexander Atlanta GA
October 16, 2008
Art: Survivors – Katrina Series
Larry Richardson Valencia CA
October 9, 2008
Quote to Ponder: “The cause of war is preparation for war.” – W.E.B. Dubois
The Black Commentator
October 2, 2008
Art: African Drummers
London Ladd Syracuse NY
October 2, 2008
Quote to Ponder: “Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings…” – Angela Davis
The Black Commentator
September 25, 2008
Art: Free to be Me
Margaret Warfield Atlanta GA
September 25, 2008
Art: MLK Memorial – Documentary Photography
Jim Alexander Atlanta GA
September 18, 2008
Quote to Ponder: “I do not expect the white media…” – Huey Newton
The Black Commentator
September 18, 2008
Art: Vulnerability a Woman in Darfur
Larry Richardson Valencia CA
September 11, 2008
Quote to Ponder: The people find out that …exploitation can wear a black face… – Frantz Fanon
The Black Commentator
September 11, 2008
Quote to Ponder: “People pay for what they do…” James Baldwin
The Black Commentator
September 4, 2008
Art: Barack Obama Portrait
The Black Commentator
September 4, 2008
Quote to Ponder: “As a strategy of colonization, encouraging enslaved blacks…” – bell hooks
The Black Commentator
August 28, 2008
Art: A Time to Remember
Margaret Warfield Atlanta GA
August 28, 2008
Quote to Ponder: “If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don’t ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.” – Nelson Mandela
The Black Commentator
July 17, 2008
Art: Sister Love – Documentary Photography
Jim Alexander Atlanta GA
July 17, 2008
Quote to Ponder: “For the black man with the attaché case, or for the black boy on the needle, it has always been the intention of the Republic to promulgate and guarantee his dependence on this Republic.” – James Baldwin
The Black Commentator
July 10, 2008
Art: Fallouja Wall
Larry Richardson Valencia CA
July 10, 2008
Art: Frederick Douglass
London Ladd Syracuse NY
July 3, 2008
Quote to Ponder: “What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sound of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants brass fronted impudence; your shout of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanks-givings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy — a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour. – Frederick Douglass
The Black Commentator
July 3, 2008
Quote to Ponder: “What, to the American slave, is your 4th of July?…” – Frederick Douglass
The Black Commentator
July 3, 2008
Quote to Ponder: “Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity. – George Carlin
The Black Commentator
June 26, 2008
Art: I Am Free
Margaret Warfield Atlanta GA
June 26, 2008