12 Aug
ONE-MAN MOVIE: MONDAYS
Here’s a video I made for my daughter: Mondays from Darien Sills-Evans on Vimeo.
Here’s a video I made for my daughter: Mondays from Darien Sills-Evans on Vimeo.
In the same week that Renisha McBride got justice for her senseless murder at the hands of Theodore Wafer, another young, unarmed, black person has been shot dead. This time in Missouri. The shooter, a white police officer. Michael Brown: Another case of a young black kid who didn’t know his place. Saturday afternoon, Michael
It was HOMICIDE. That was the principle finding by the New York Medical Examiner in the Eric Garner police brutality case. On Friday, news broke that the illegal chokehold used on Mr. Garner during his arrest, was directly responsible for his death. It was murder. It was a lynching. And now, we wait to see
This week we learned that black Hollywood is just as guilty of perpetuating negative images. If you haven’t seen the now infamous NWA movie casting call, here it is: See all that Tyler Perry hate is terribly misplaced. It’s not just that black women (whom are already objectified and sexualized in hip-hop) are graded based
At the start of every New Year, I have to admit I have I strangely morbid thought. It slides right in as I think on my resolutions for the year and how much money I hope to save. Every year I wonder how many black people will become famous for all the wrong reasons. By
Yaya M., has her hand out. However, all she’s asking for is the same thing that seems to have driven some of the most successful people for hundreds of years in America – “White Privilege”. To reach her financial goal of being able to successfully attain the vaunted privilege of um… the whites, she’s set
Dear Sports Fans, They don’t really love you. I know it seems like they care – when “shouting out” to the city they play for or signing autographs (sometimes even for free!) – but they don’t care. They play for millions. Both in dollars and in the adoring cheers of the fans. That’s pretty much
Anthony Cumia discovered that photographing women in public against their will, is likely to get you your ass kicked. He might have had the sympathy of the city and the nation, if immediately after his attack he didn’t reveal himself to be an absolutely horrible, racist, misogynist, bully. In the end it cost him his
It’s been six years since President Obama was first elected to office. In that time, sadly, we’ve had to watch his once inspiring aura of cool and edge fade away as he’s had to fight off attacks from pundits, Republicans, and the Tea Party. Being the first black President has brought out the worst in
He was a tower of a man. In his hands, a baseball bat looked something like a twig. There was rarely an at bat that wasn’t textbook. He was a real life superhero, and for me, even more so, because he was a baseball player and he was black. Tony Gwynn. I was never really