Feelings Unspoken Are Unforgettable. Nostalghia (1983) Directed By Andrei Tarkovsky

Glass bottle shaped like a date, Greek and Roman Art

Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Glass

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Statues of Endre Ady and Miklos Radnoti. Budapest, Hungary. June 2019,

Tatiana Samoilova in The Cranes Are Flying 1957 dir. Mikhail Kalatozov

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Édouard Boubat (1923-1999 French) • L’arbre et la Poule 1950

The Black Panthers fed more hungry kids than the state of California

It wasn’t all young men and guns: the Black Panther Party’s programs fed more hungry kids than the state of California

The Black Panther’s Free Breakfast for Children Program is probably their best-known initiative, the press finding an intriguing story juxtaposing the Panther’s tough-guy-in-leather-jacket image with the act of serving small children plates of hot food. Importantly, it was mostly women who led these survival programmes, and women made up a majority of the Panther membership. They served in leadership roles from ‘Officer of the Day’ (essentially the office – and people – manager for each branch), to organising the many details of a location’s breakfast programme to initiating and leading food justice, healthcare and housing programmes within neighbourhoods.

So why does the image of the Panthers as a masculinist and violent organisation persist? The answer lies in part with media distortion, influenced both by the sexism and racism that misrepresented the Panthers. There was also a misinformation campaign by the FBI, led by J Edgar Hoover, waged against the increasingly popular Panthers, which had an enduring impact on how people saw them.

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Jean Cocteau by Germaine Krull

Pierre Boucher, Femme-fleur, inversion négatif-positif, solarisation et photogramme, 1937

audience members at Umm Kolthoum’s concert in Egypt, 1962