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.
Art: Best Friends Forever
Margaret Warfield Atlanta GA
April 19, 2012
Quote to Ponder: “Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them.” – Frederick Douglass
The Black Commentator
April 19, 2012
Art: Eat the Rich
Shepard Fairey Los Angeles CA
April 12, 2012
Quote to Ponder: “Colin Powell is the most powerful and damaging black to rise to influence in the world in my lifetime.” – TransAfrica founder Randall Robinson
The Black Commentator
April 12, 2012
Common Threads Wall Mural
The Black Commentator
April 5, 2012
Art – Marvin Gaye
Kadir Nelson San Diego CA
April 5, 2012
Quote to Ponder: “I think I’ve got a real thing going. I love people. I love life and I love nature, and I can’t see why other people can’t be like that.” – Marvin Gaye
The Black Commentator
April 5, 2012
Art – Skitt:9mm
Chuck Siler Carrollton TX
March 29, 2012
![Quote to Ponder: "Violence is a part of America's culture. It is as American as cherry pie." - H. Rap Brown [Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin]](https://blackcommentator.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/465_quote_violence_h_rap_brown_up-2.gif)
Quote to Ponder: “Violence is a part of America’s culture. It is as American as cherry pie.” – H. Rap Brown [Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin]
The Black Commentator
March 29, 2012
Art: Weapons Of Mouse Destruction
Shepard Fairey Los Angeles CA
March 22, 2012
Quote to Ponder: “If women want any rights more than they’s got, why don’t they just take them, and not be talking about it
The Black Commentator
March 22, 2012
Shirley Chisholm
Kadir Nelson San Diego CA
March 15, 2012
Quote to Ponder: “I want history to remember me not just as the first black woman to be elected to Congress, not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of the United States, but as a black woman who lived in the 20th century and dared to be herself.” – Congressperson Shirley Chisholm
The Black Commentator
March 15, 2012
Art: “Dream of Passion”
Larry Richardson Valencia CA
March 8, 2012
Quote to Ponder: “Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!” – Bob Marley
The Black Commentator
March 8, 2012
Art: War by Numbers
Shepard Fairey Los Angeles CA
March 1, 2012
Quote to Ponder: “I have found white people that usually are very intelligent, until you get them to talking about the race problem. Then they get blind as a bat and want you to see what they know is the exact opposite of the truth.” – El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, (Malcolm X)
The Black Commentator
March 1, 2012
Art: Confrontation
Jim Alexander Photography Atlanta GA
February 23, 2012
Quote to Ponder: “A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.” – Marcus Garvey
The Black Commentator
February 23, 2012
Art: Lantern of Liberty – Harriet Tubman Wall Mural Photograph
The Black Commentator
February 16, 2012
Quote to Ponder: “We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history…” – Carter Woodson
The Black Commentator
February 16, 2012
Art: Possibilities
Larry Richardson Valencia CA
February 9, 2012
Quote to Ponder: “I want to live in a country where freedom means something.” – Assata Shakur
The Black Commentator
February 9, 2012
Art: High Stepping
Margaret Warfield Atlanta GA
February 1, 2012