Category: Performing Arts

• Prayer Loop Song – by Crow-Hop artist SupaMan

  Crow is as Crow does. An MTV Artist of the week,  SupaMan, is an Apsáalooke fancy dancer, drummer, singer and Crow-Hop Hip-Hop artist from Crow Nation Reservation. Check out more on SupaMan on PolicyMic.com and MTVIggy.com. Proof that artists build nations. [drops mic]

  Simone Monique Barnes

  March 27, 2014

  Americana, Arts, Cultural Integrity, Ethnic, Regional and National Identity, Nation Building, Native American, Performing Arts

  Apsáalooke, Crow Nation, Crow-Hop, drummer, fancy dancer, hip-hop, Montana, Nation Building, Native American, NDN, Rez

• 40 Days of Black Art. Day 2: Mark Dukes, Saint John Coltrane

  Day 2: Mark Dukes The paintings of iconographer Deacon Mark Duke of St. John Coltrane African Orthodox Church live at the intersection of jazz, visual art, and spirituality. Prints of Duke’s iconography are available for sale online in the St John Coltrane Church gallery. Three things: Mark Dukes is an ordained deacon and the official icon painter of…

  Simone Monique Barnes

  March 6, 2014

  Americana, Arts, Black History and Culture, Church, Nation Building, Performing Arts, Visual Arts

  40 Days of Black Art, African Orthodox Church, California, God, iconography, jazz, John coltrane, Love Supreme, Mark Dukes, Oakland, painter, saint, San Francisco

• Lupita Nyong’o

  Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds — Bob Marley, Redemption Song (lyrics adapted from a speech by the Honorable Marcus Garvey) While none but ourselves can free our minds, sometimes an image or a verse helps with the calibration process. Lupita Nyong’o’s tearful speech defining beauty at Essence’s 7th…

  Simone Monique Barnes

  March 3, 2014

  Arts, Black History and Culture, Cultural Integrity, Ethnic, Regional and National Identity, Nation Building, Performing Arts

  Actor, Fashion, Film, Kenya, Lupita Nyong’, Mexico, Oscars, Style, Women