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: “When the government violates the people’s rights, insurrection is…” – Marquis De Lafayette
The Black Commentator
December 6, 2012
Art: Kadir Nelson, San Diego CA
The Black Commentator
November 15, 2012
Quote to Ponder: “Democracy will not come…” – Langston Hughes
The Black Commentator
November 15, 2012
Quote to Ponder: “The next time they give you all that civic bullshit about voting…” – George Carlin
The Black Commentator
November 9, 2012
Art: Votes for Women Photograph, U.S. Women’s Suffrage
The Black Commentator
November 1, 2012
Quote to Ponder: “I knew that I could vote and that it wasn’t a privilege; it was my right…” – Stokely Carmichael
The Black Commentator
November 1, 2012
Art: “The First Vote”
A.R. Waud Wood engraving 1867, Courtesy of the Library of Congress
November 1, 2012
Quote to Ponder: “Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
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October 25, 2012
Quote to Ponder: “As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too…” – Gore Vidal
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October 18, 2012
Art: Voting Rights History – Two Centuries of Struggle, Courtesy of Civil Rights Movement Veterans Website
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October 11, 2012
Quote to Ponder: “As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too…” – Gore Vidal
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October 11, 2012
Quote to Ponder: The Scab – Jack London
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October 4, 2012
Art: Fire Hydrant
Ray Ferrer - Urban Wall Art & Murals New York NY
October 4, 2012
Quote to Ponder: “We have been basically persuaded that we should not talk about racism.” – Angela Davis
The Black Commentator
September 27, 2012
Art: Dance With Me
Margaret Warfield Atlanta GA
September 20, 2012
Quote to Ponder: “Ignorance is a cure for nothing. – W.E.B. Du Bois
The Black Commentator
September 20, 2012
Art – Lioness
Kadir Nelson San Diego CA
September 13, 2012
Quote to Ponder: “I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a monied aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power (of money) should be taken away from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.” – Thomas Jefferson, 3rd U.S. President
The Black Commentator
September 13, 2012
Quote to Ponder: “I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that’s the America millions of Americans believe in. That’s the America I love.” – Mitt Romney (January 2012)
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September 6, 2012
Ten Years of BC: A Contemporary History
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August 2, 2012
Art: Dancers
Jim Alexander Photography Atlanta GA
July 26, 2012
Quote to Ponder: “By our readiness to allow arms to be purchased at will and fired at whim…” – Martin Luther King, Jr
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July 26, 2012
Art: Anticipation
Margaret Warfield Atlanta GA
July 19, 2012
Quote to Ponder: “Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done or ever will do good.” – John Adams, 2nd US President
The Black Commentator
July 19, 2012