Podcast appearances and mentions of leonard freed

In een boek van de Amerikaanse fotograaf Leonard Freed komt Fabian een foto tegen. Een foto van een klein kindje in een lange gang. Het kindje laat Fabian niet meer los en hij gaat op zoek naar het verhaal achter de foto. Alleen Freed is allang overleden en de foto is 65 jaar oud. IEMANDS KIND is gemaakt door Fabian Sapthu. Renée Kapitein: regie en montage Karlijn Landman: creatief producent Vita Pical: research Wederik de Backer: eindmontage en sound design Wouter Verhulst: mixage en voice-over opname, Sim Fane: muziek Met dank aan de gemeente Amsterdam, het vfonds, het Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst, FondsZOZ en Wereldmuseum Amsterdam (het voormalig Tropenmuseum).

In this episode, our host Stephanie Fortunato speaks with Paul Farber, Director and Co-Founder of Monument Lab. They discuss the origins of Monument Lab and the value of understanding, setting, and respecting boundaries for healthy collaboration. The two also discuss Monument Lab's Pulling Together – an upcoming public art exhibition taking place from August 18th – September 18th, 2023 – which will bring forward new perspectives on Washington D.C.'s National Mall.External references: Monument Lab's Website: https://monumentlab.com/ Marian Anderson and the Easter Sunday Concert, April 9, 1939: https://youtu.be/XF9Quk0QhSE More about Marian Anderson, and how she came to perform on the Lincoln Memorial steps: https://rediscovering-black-history.blogs.archives.gov/2014/05/20/marian-anderson-and-the-easter-sunday-concert-april-9-1939/ Monument Lab's exhibition, Pulling Together: https://monumentlab.com/projects/national-mall-project Pulling Together Artist Derrick Adams: https://monumentlab.com/projects/pulling-together-artist-derrick-adams Pulling Together Artist Tiffany Chung: https://monumentlab.com/projects/pulling-together-artist-tiffany-chung Pulling Together Artist Ashon T. Crawley: https://monumentlab.com/projects/pulling-together-artist-ashon-t-crawley Pulling Together Artist Vanessa German: https://monumentlab.com/projects/pulling-together-artist-vanessa-german Pulling Together Artist Paul Ramírez Jonas: https://monumentlab.com/projects/pulling-together-artist-paul-ramirez-jonas Pulling Together Artist Wendy Red Star: https://monumentlab.com/projects/pulling-together-artist-wendy-red-star What lies underneath the Lincoln Memorial: https://www.moon.com/travel/arts-culture/secrets-of-the-lincoln-memorial/#:~:text=Hanging%20from%20the%20ceiling%20beneath,started%20when%20it%20was%20built. Rhode Island Black Storytellers: https://ribsfest.org/ Paul Farber's bio:Paul M. Farber (he or they) is Director and Co-Founder of Monument Lab. He is the host of The Statue, a podcast series from WHYY. Farber also serves as Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Public Art & Space at the University of Pennsylvania.  Farber and the team at Monument Lab were the inaugural grantees of the Mellon Foundation's “Monuments Project,” a $250 million initiative to “transform the way our country's histories are told in public spaces,” including Monument Lab's National Monument Audit and the opening of research field offices throughout the United States. Farber has co-curated Monument Lab projects including its original Philadelphia City Hall discovery exhibition (Philadelphia, 2015), citywide public art and history exhibition (Philadelphia, 2017), A Call to Peace (Military Park Newark, 2019), Public Iconographies (Pulitzer Foundation, 2019-2020), and Staying Power (Village of Arts and Humanities, 2021). Farber's research and curatorial projects explore transnational urban history, cultural memory, and creative approaches to civic engagement. He is author of A Wall of Our Own: An American History of the Berlin Wall (University of North Carolina Press, 2020) which tells the untold story of a group of American artists and writers (Leonard Freed, Angela Davis, Shinkichi Tajiri, and Audre Lorde) who found refuge along the Berlin Wall and in Cold War Germany in order to confront political divisions back home in the United States. He is also co-editor with Ken Lum of Monument Lab: Creative Speculations for Philadelphia (Temple University Press, 2019), a public art and history handbook designed to generate new critical ways of thinking about and building monuments. In addition to his work with Monument Lab, Farber served as curator for the inaugural Artist-in-Residence Program at the Office of the District Attorney of Philadelphia (2020), keynote speaker for the Americans for the Arts national conference (2020), and Scholar in Residence at Mural Arts Philadelphia (2015–2017). He serves as an advisor to numerous monument and memorial projects including for the City of Newark and the Emmett Till Interpretive Center. His work on culture has also previously appeared in The Guardian, Brooklyn Rail, Al Jazeera, Museums & Social Issues, Diplomatic History, Art & the Public Sphere, Vibe, and on NPR.  Farber earned a PhD and MA in American Culture from the University of Michigan and a BA in Urban Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.

Thank you for listening to The Exposed Negative Podcast. Running this podcast takes a lot of time and effort, and we hope you have found it helpful and interesting. If you would like to support us by buying us a beer or coffee, or by helping with the running costs of the show, we would greatly appreciate it. Please consider signing up for our Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/exposednegati...) or making a one-time donation through PayPal (https://www.paypal.me/exposednegative).  Thank you for your support! Below are the show notes. Mola light modifiers: https://www.mola-light.com/ United Nations of Photography: https://unitednationsofphotography.com/category/audio-2/podcasts-a-photographic-life/ Miles Aldrige: https://milesaldridge.com/ Platon: http://www.platonphoto.com/ Jake Chessum: https://jakechessum.com/ Mark Mattock: https://www.instagram.com/mark_mattock/?hl=en Oliviero Toscani: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliviero_Toscani William Klein: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Klein_(photographer) Don McCullin: https://donmccullin.com/don-mccullin/ Bruce Webber: http://www.bruceweber.com/ Herb Ritts: https://www.herbritts.com/ Helmut Newton: https://helmut-newton-foundation.org/en/ Corrine Day: https://www.corinneday.com/home/ Leonard Freed: https://www.magnumphotos.com/photographer/leonard-freed/ John Swannell: http://www.johnswannell.com/about-john-swannell/ Terry O'Neil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_O'Neill_(photographer) Edward Westons Day Books: https://amzn.to/3VG8Jc7 Russell Miller, Magnum book: https://www.wob.com/en-gb/books/russell-miller/magnum/9780436203732?cq_src=google_ads&cq_cmp=18059580451&cq_con=&cq_med=pla&cq_plac=&cq_net=x#GOR003449848 David Eustice: https://www.davideustace.com/ Dennis Stock James Dean photos: https://www.magnumphotos.com/arts-culture/cinema/james-dean-photographed-by-dennis-stock/ Frank Ockenfels III: https://fwo3.com/ On being a photographer: Bill Jay and David Hurn: https://amzn.to/42qGLU0 Landry Major episode of a Photographic Life: https://unitednationsofphotography.com/2023/03/08/podcast-a-photographic-life-episode-plus-photographer-landry-major/ Daniel Meadows the Ten rules of being a photographer: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-photographic-life-121-plus-daniel-meadows/id1380344701?i=1000488539660 Bill Jay film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd47549knOU And the website for the film is www.donotbendfilm.com A photographic Life on twitter: https://twitter.com/PhotoLifePod A photographic Life on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/photolifepod/ Desert Island Camera iPhone Desert Island Book The Best of Life magazine: https://amzn.to/44yxIlU

In episode 199 UNP founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on creativity, working as a photographer, and if NFTs are the result of a perfect storm or just a passing squall. Plus this week photographer Mike Abrahams takes on the challenge of supplying Grant with an audio file no longer than 5 minutes in length in which he answer's the question ‘What Does Photography Mean to You?' Born in 1952 in South Africa Abrahams moved to Liverpool in 1955 and grew up there. Aged 12, he discovered the magic of the darkroom under the stairs in a friend's house and became hooked on photography. In 1970 after failing to get into medical school he enrolled on a dentistry course in the hope that he could switch to medicine but he was expelled after just two terms. In 1972 he enrolled on a photography course at the Polytechnic of Central London and discovered Henri Cartier Bresson, Don McCullin, Leonard Freed, Robert Capa and Marc Riboud who had visited the course to show his work which Abrahams found transforming. In 1975 he began working as a freelance photographer with the Times, Sunday Times, Sunday Times Magazine, The Telegraph, The Observer Magazine, and started to work with international magazines and newspapers, covering stories in Southern Africa, Gaza, Cyprus, Israel, Eastern Europe, Northern Ireland, the UK as well as portraits of those in the arts and literature. In 1981 he was a co-founder of Network Photographers the internationally renowned picture agency. His work on Faith - A Journey with Those Who Believe, published in 2000, was the culmination of five years work, documenting the extremes and passion of Christian devotion throughout fourteen countries. Other important assignments have included coverage of the division of Cyprus, the Intifada in the Occupied Territories, the Berlin Wall, the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe, the rise in the influence of the religious in Israeli politics, the Cult of Assad in Syria, The Jews of Damascus and Bradford's Muslims and The Troubles in Northern Ireland. Awards for this work included the World Press Photo Award in 2000, the book Faith was a finalist in the Design Week Awards and the work has been widely exhibited throughout the UK and Europe. Cafe Royal Books have published six books of his work in 2022 and his work from Northern Ireland was published as Still War - Photographs From The North of Ireland in 1989. His work has been widely exhibited and is held in the Museum of London and Science and Media Museum, London. Abrahams current landscape work has been exploring the relationship between structures and their environment and he is based in London. www.mikeabrahams.com Dr. Grant Scott is the founder/curator of United Nations of Photography, a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, a working photographer, documentary filmmaker, BBC Radio contributor and the author of Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Routledge 2014), The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Routledge 2015), New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography (Routledge 2019). Grant's book What Does Photography Mean to You? including 89 photographers who have contributed to the A Photographic Life podcast is on sale now £9.99 https://bluecoatpress.co.uk/product/what-does-photography-mean-to-you/ © Grant Scott 2022

Passend zu den Sommerferien geht Radio Folkwang auf Reisen: Wir folgen Künstlern wie Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse und Lothar Baumgarten in die Südsee, nach Nordafrika und in den Amazonas. Abenteuerlust und Entdeckerfreude stehen in einem spannungsreichen Verhältnis zu kolonialen Sichtweisen und der Gefahr der Exotisierung. Doch wir schlagen in der Folge auch unbekanntere Wege ein und sprechen über die Reisen von Leonard Freed, der als US-Amerikaner die Bundesrepublik der Nachkriegszeit fotografierte, und Françoise Saur, die auf Reisen nach Algerien an den Ort ihrer Kindheit zurückkehrt. Studiogast Christoph Westermeier berichtet von künstlerischen Impulsen für seine Arbeit aus China und dem Allgäu.

Walter Guadagnini"L'Italia di Magnum"Da Robert Capa a Paolo Pellegrin6 maggio – 18 luglio 2021Loggia degli Abati, Palazzo Ducale, Genovahttps://palazzoducale.genova.it/A cura di Walter Guadagnini con Arianna VisaniOrganizzata da SUAZES, CAMERA Centro Italiano per la fotografia e Magnum PhotosPalazzo Ducale presenta la mostra L'Italia di Magnum. Da Robert Capa a Paolo Pellegrin, una straordinaria carrellata di oltre duecento immagini che raccontano la cronaca, la storia e il costume del nostro paese negli ultimi 70 anni. L'esposizione è curata da Walter Guadagnini con la collaborazione di Arianna Visani ed organizzata da SUAZES in collaborazione con CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia e Magnum Photos. Venti sono gli autori chiamati a raccontare eventi grandi e piccoli, personaggi e luoghi dell'Italia dal dopoguerra a oggi, in un affascinante intreccio di fotografie celeberrime e di altre meno note, di luoghi conosciuti in tutto il mondo e di semplici cittadini, che compongono il tessuto sociale e visivo del nostro paese. Introdotta da un omaggio ad Henri Cartier-Bresson e al suo viaggio in Italia negli anni Trenta, la mostra prende avvio con due serie strepitose, una di Robert Capa, dedicata alla fine della Seconda Guerra Mondiale, che mostra un paese in rovina, distrutto da cinque anni di conflitto, e una di David Seymour, che nel 1947 riprende invece i turisti che tornano a visitare la Cappella Sistina: l'eterna bellezza dell'arte italiana che appare come il segno della rinascita di un'intera nazione.La mostra, organizzata per decenni, prosegue con le immagini di Elliott Erwitt, René Burri e di Herbert List: il primo racconta Roma, le sue bellezze e le sue contraddizioni con lo sguardo affettuosamente ironico che lo ha reso famoso; il secondo ci porta all'interno della storica mostra di Picasso del 1953 a Milano, un evento indimenticabile per la cultura italiana, che tornava a confrontarsi con i grandi miti della contemporaneità; il terzo infine, con una serie di scatti strepitosi, porta lo spettatore all'interno di Cinecittà, dove stava nascendo la “Hollywood sul Tevere”, che tanta fama porterà all'Italia nel decennio successivo. Un decennio che in mostra è raccontato da tre figure forse meno conosciute ma non per questo meno interessanti della storia della fotografia e di Magnum: Thomas Hoepker, che presenta tre immagini del trionfo di Cassius Clay (poi Mohamed Alì) alle Olimpiadi di Roma del 1960, Bruno Barbey, che documenta i funerali di Togliatti, figura centrale della politica italiana, e non solo, figura amata dal popolo al di là del giudizio che ne darà poi la storia, e Erich Lessing, con un servizio che riporta direttamente ai tempi del “boom” economico, con una carrellata sulla spiaggia di Cesenatico, con i suoi riti e i suoi miti. Cambia il clima negli anni Settanta e Ferdinando Scianna racconta il passaggio tra i due decenni attraverso le immagini di una Sicilia sempre uguale e sempre mutevole, Leonard Freed riprende frammenti dello storico referendum sul divorzio che cambiò per sempre la società italiana, mentre Raymond Depardon presenta una delle sue serie più struggenti, quella sui manicomi, realizzata nel momento in cui la Legge Basaglia, che ne prevedeva la chiusura, segnava un altro grande passo del costume nazionale. Una decina di fotografie ancora realizzate da Scianna aprono gli anni Ottanta: sono le immagini di un Berlusconi in versione imprenditore di successo, appena prima della discesa in politica, immagini illuminanti sul rapporto tra potere e immagine a partire da quel momento storico. Ma il decennio è anche quello della definitiva affermazione del turismo di massa nel nostro paese: le grandi fotografie di Martin Parr colgono genialmente il contrasto tra la bellezza dei luoghi e il cattivo gusto dei nuovi visitatori, con effetti di mirabile comicità. Patrick Zachmann invece racconta la Napoli della camorra, prima di “Gomorra” ma con la stessa intensità: un documento crudo, la faccia nascosta (nemmeno troppo) dell'Italia da bere del decennio.Alla fine del percorso si arriva alla contemporaneità: gli anni Novanta e Duemila sono come un viaggio tra i nostri ricordi più recenti e le nostre vicende attuali: Alex Majoli racconta le discoteche romagnole di allora e di oggi, in un lavoro concepito appositamente per questa occasione; Thomas Dworzak ci riporta alle drammatiche giornate del G8 di Genova, Peter Marlow all'ancor più tragica vicenda della guerra nella ex Jugoslavia, narrata dagli occhi dei soldati americani su una portaerei al largo delle coste italiane; Chris Steele-Perkins torna invece in Vaticano – presenza costante nella mostra in quanto presenza costante nella storia e nella cronaca d'Italia – per raccontare questa volta un aspetto letteralmente giocoso, il torneo di calcio tra religiosi “Clericus Cup”, quasi un'anticipazione delle immagini surreali di “The Young Pope”. Paolo Pellegrin chiude il decennio, con le immagini della folla assiepata in Piazza San Pietro nella veglia per la morte di Papa Giovanni Paolo II e con quelle di un'altra folla, quella dei migranti su un barcone, tragico segnale dell'attualità. Uscendo il visitatore incontra infine la grande, straordinaria sequenza di immagini di Mark Power dedicate ai luoghi simbolo della cultura italiana, da Piazza San Marco alla Basilica di San Petronio a Bologna, dal Museo del Cinema di Torino al Duomo di Milano, appartenenti alla collezione di Intesa Sanpaolo, capolavori dell'architettura e dell'ingegno italiano, che costituiscono l'identità primaria del nostro paese, che a loro volta diventano soggetto per la realizzazione di autentici capolavori fotografici.IL POSTO DELLE PAROLEascoltare fa pensarehttps://ilpostodelleparole.it/

Photographer Jamel Shabazz joins Sean and Dan for a look at Leonard Freed's 'Black in White America,' a classic collection of kinetic civil-rights era photography.

Today’s guest on the show is documentary photographer Jamel Shabazz. Jamel’s contributions to documentary photography are applauded the all over the world and in my humble opinion Brother Shabazz the is the Gordon Parks of my generation. I marveled at his work way before I knew his name. You have no idea how happy it made me feel to sit at a chess table in the middle of Brooklyn and kick it with some who has and still inspires me to do my best with my skill set every single day. We met up in Dr. Ronald McNair Park across from the Brooklyn Museum to talk about growing up in Brooklyn, self publishing vs traditional publishing, his experience in the military, the summer of 1980, striving to capture images that say something profound, the importance of empathy, the crack era, giving back to the community and much much more. As you are listening to this conversation, I highly recommend you pull up Jamel’s Instagram, website or flip through one of his many photography books as you listen. It will be a great reference to what we are talking about. I’ve provided links to it all at NewYorkSaid.com  Side note, we are in the middle of Brooklyn. So, there will be sirens, there will be interruptions and that’s what you get when you record outside in New York, it tends to want to be present right there with you. That’s enough intro for one show, please enjoy. More About Jamel Shabazz Official Site - http://www.jamelshabazz.com Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/jamelshabazz/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Jamel-Shabazz-16841597946/ Shop for Books by Jamel Shabazz Back in the Days - http://amzn.to/2f2MxIc The Last Sunday June - http://amzn.to/2gcrRJJ A Time Before Crack - http://amzn.to/2fNVx2W Seconds of my Life - http://amzn.to/2gy0i1I Pieces of a Man: Photography of Jamel Shabazz: 1980-2015 - http://www.artvoicesartbooks.com/shop/51k7s88fwm6869fxpfenq2lmkhj9yd Links to the Stuff they Talked About West Indian Parade - http://wiadcacarnival.org Eastern Parkway - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Parkway Brooklyn Museum - https://www.brooklynmuseum.org Brooklyn Botanical Gardens - http://www.bbg.org Powerhouse Books - http://www.powerhousebooks.com Black In White America, a book by photojournalist Leonard Freed - http://n.pr/2fBF0fK Alex Haley: The Playboy Interviews - http://amzn.to/2fBzdXB Platoon (1986) - Rotten Tomatoes - http://bit.ly/2flyJna Marvin Gaye (Song) - What's Happening Brother - http://bit.ly/2gi63Oe Luke Cage - http://bit.ly/2fZ2Jal Puma - http://bit.ly/2fBArBT Delancey Street - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delancey_Street Riders Island - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delancey_Street Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson - http://bit.ly/2gi5R1x Short Eyes (Film) - http://bit.ly/2fnwIKR Attica Correctional Facility - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attica_Correctional_Facility Crack Cocaine - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crack_cocaine Self Destruction (Song) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxyYP_bS_6s The Central Park Five - http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/centralparkfive/ Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come (Official Lyric Video) - http://bit.ly/2fnInZN Book of Eli - http://bit.ly/2ge0xyl Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture - https://nmaahc.si.edu This episode is sponsored by Gorilla Coffee.

Welcome back to robinlofton.com!  This is the place where we are remembering history and the place where we are making it. March is an interesting month: winter melts into spring, schools take a long—and much-needed break and many of us are still on a high from last month’s Black history month celebrations and remembrances. With all the great stories, achievements, and contributions, Black history month is a very hard act to follow. But March does have its strengths.  This month, the theme will be marches. You know, when people get out and march, protest and make demands on the government for changes, improvements and justice.  I’m talking about that important and powerful form of protest: marching.    Yes, in March, we will discuss marches. We’ll discuss famous marches. We’ll discuss not-so-famous marches.  We will also examine why we march.  And, during March month—and every month—I would love to hear from you if you’ve ever been involved in a march. What was it like? What were you marching about?  What do you think of marching? Was it effective?  In short, I want to hear from you about your marching experiences.   I can begin with one of my marching experiences. I was an undergrad at UCLA.  During the 1980s (yes, I’m revealing my age bracket here), the United States was one of the last countries to maintain economic ties with South Africa. This was during the time when South Africa was in the grip of apartheid. The Black Students Association (or BSA as it is known by people in the know) organized several large marches on campus to demand that the UC Regents divest our funds from South Africa. We also demanded a full economic boycott against South Africa while it maintained the system of apartheid and while Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu and other members of the ANC remained in prison. Today, we know how the story ended:  Apartheid was dismantled. South Africa became an isolated symbol of racism throughout the world. And Nelson Mandela was freed from prison and became the first Black African president of South Africa. We know that he was much more than that—his legacy of power, peace, equality, and justice endure today, long after his death. And the other political prisoners were released.  Did the Black Student marches accomplish all that?  Probably not—at least not alone. But these marches were happening all over the country and I think that we all contributed to dismantling apartheid and making South Africa into a free and democratic country.  The marches at UCLA—all non-violent I should add—were events that brought us together as a community working towards a single and just cause.  We felt empowered and strong. We felt unity (remember Umoja (in Swahili) from the first day of Kwanzaa?) and a collective passion to join the struggle with people thousands of miles away who desired equality, justice and freedom.  To answer my own questions: Were our marches effective? Absolutely. Would I do it again?  I already have!  But that’s for another podcast.   Let’s back up and do a bit of housecleaning before we begin part 1 of the marches podcast series.   I hope that you enjoyed the Black History month wiki history podcasts where we answered basic questions about Black History Month: What is it?  Who started it and why?  And one of the most relevant questions (which also happened to be the most popular podcast of the month): do we still need Black History month?  That presented a great question and really made people think about why, with a Black president, we continue to need Black history month. In fact, I remember seeing the hashtag #28daysisnotenough.  It really isn’t so I will continue to learn, remember and honor Black history.  If you haven’t listened to the Black history month wiki podcasts, please take a bit of time to go back to them. They are not long. Remember that they’re wiki lectures. That means (in the Hawaiian language), that you can learn a lot really fast.       One more thing before I forget and before we start discussing famous marches:  robinlofton.com is taking a new name. This website, podcast, and blog will be called rememberinghistory.com.  I will still be the host and the front person but the name will change to reflect more closely my real goal. To remember history. To honor history. To learn from and be inspired by history. And, ultimately, to make history.  So, rememberinghistory.com.  There’s nothing that you need to do.  You can go to robinlofton.com where you’ll be forwarded to rememberinghistory.com. Or you can, of course, just visit rememberinghistory.com. Looking forward to seeing you there.   Now for the marches.               I know as I begin this podcast, you might be thinking about the blockbuster historical movie, Selma.  That’s great. I love historical movies because they help to bring history to life and remind us of the important events in history—even if they were not so long ago. And Selma, Alabama was the scene of an important march on what has come to be known as Bloody Sunday. It was March 7, 1965. There were other marches that took place around the same time, lasting for another 18 days. The Turnaround March, for example.  This was one of the most famous marches in U.S. history.  What was the march about? Voting rights for African Americans. The marchers were demanding the passage of a Voting Rights law that prohibited discrimination in the right and practice of voting. As the bloody Sunday name suggests, this non-violent march ended with police and state troopers attacking the unarmed marchers. Many were injured. Some were killed.  This march was effective: President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law just five months later, on August 6, 1965. There is lots more about the Voting Rights Act—it is a fundamental and revolutionary document that is constantly under attack—and I have a wiki history podcast that discusses it called Civil Rights Movement: The Laws & Supreme Court cases.  Back to the Selma march, the march was also a response to the killing of Jimmie Lee Jackson by an Alabama State trooper. Mr. Jackson was killed while fleeing violence that had erupted at a voting rights rally. The Selma march was also a response to the killing of Rev. James Reeb by four members of the Ku Klux Klan who objected to Rev. Reeb dining at an integrated restaurant. Well, if you want to know more about the Selma march, I encourage you to see the movie or listen to my podcast called The Civil Rights Movement: Marches and Protests. Actually, you can do both if you like!   One of the most famous and largest marches, not just in U.S. history, but in world history was the March on Washington, which was held on August 28, 1963. Did you know that full name was the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom?  Yes, that really tells it all. It was the largest march ever held for economic and social rights for African Americans. 250,000 people attended the march, including 60,000 whites. It was absolutely an integrated (or multicultural in modern lingo) movement—and that was very rare at the time. This is when and where SCLC president Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech.   In fact, there was a long list of speakers including A. Philip Randolph who gave the opening remarks, SNCC Chairman John Lewis (who would be a central figure at the Selma march 2 years later), National Urban League director Whitney Young, and NAACP Executive Secretary Roy Wilkens who led a moment of silence for WEB Dubois had died in Ghana on the previous night.  There was also a long list of performers like Mahalia Jackson, Marion Anderson, Joan Baez and Bob Dylan. How effective was the March on Washington? That is open to a lot of debate.  There was criticism on all sides: Some people, including Malcolm X, thought that the issue and goal of the march were too diluted as a result of multicultural support and conflicting agendas. Some people in the Kennedy Administration felt that the march was too radical and inflammatory because many speakers were questioning the effectiveness of the current civil rights bill. Still, others (particularly white segregationists) were angered that Black people and civil rights issues had been provided with so much power and coverage. Most of the participants felt that the march was an historic and life-changing experience. To me (no I wasn’t there), that historic and life-changing feeling by itself shows that the march was effective and powerful.  Following the march, President Kennedy did actually meet with civil rights leaders—that was a huge step on its own—but he had not signed the civil rights bill before his assassination. Eleven months later, his successor Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law.   So, those are two of the most famous marches.  There is a lot more to say about them but I encourage you read about them for yourself.  Two good books are This is the Day: The March on Washington by Leonard Freed and March from Selma to Montgomery by Michael Uschan (by the way, Michael Uschan has written a lot about African American history and his books are very readable and informative.) If you’re more the visual type, go see Selma if it’s still in the theaters. If not, then a great DVD is Selma, Lord, Selma. And a good DVD about the March on Washington is called The March, which is a documentary with Denzel Washington. I just mention these books and DVDs but you can find them all and others (with reviews) on robinlofton.com and rememberinghistory.com. Look in the store section on Marches. You can’t miss it!       And, while you’re at the website, please give me your comments about the marches, the books, the movies, or anything else that it is on your mind. I love to hear from my listeners. Remember we are part of a community and I definitely believe in freedom of speech and expression.  If you actually attended one of these marches—or another march—tell me your experiences, thoughts, and beliefs about the marches.    In the next wiki podcast, we are going to discuss some of the lesser-known marches.  These marches are not unknown, but they certainly were not on the scale of the March on Washington or the Selma to Montgomery march in terms of participation and numbers. But you might just find that they were powerful, effective and memorable in their own right. And to make it even more interesting, I am going to focus on a single city for the wiki history podcast on these lesser-known marches. I will not tell you the name of the city but here’s a hint: This city has been described as a “hotbed of radical activism.” That’s a quote. Well, think about it and tune in next time for the name of this “hotbed of radical activism” and the marches that have occurred there.  Just to jump ahead, the final podcast in the marches series will discuss why we march and examine the march as an effective tool for change. We will examine specific and modern marches so it will be quite interesting.  There is a reason that Gandhi marched and that we continue to march.   Finally, every time someone listens to these podcasts, I will donate $1 to the ASALH, the Association for the Study of African American Life & History.  This organization, founded by Carter G. Woodson, is celebrating its centennial anniversary this year and is a great organization that keeps African American history alive, growing and respected. Feel free to visit them at asalh.org.   And feel free to visit robinlofton.com and rememberinghistory.com. Hope that you enjoyed this “march” down memory lane (sorry, but I couldn’t resist that one), I hope to hear your comments and experiences, and I hope that you will join me at the next marches podcast where we are remembering history and we’re making history.   Bye for now!

This week, a memo written by David Mamet sparks a discussion around the meaning and importance we give the things we make. Also a follow up on the Norman Seef video and how, for some photographers, the connection with the subject is the point and the photographs are merely a byproduct of the experience. Leonard Freed is our Photographer of the Week.

This week, a memo written by David Mamet sparks a discussion around the meaning and importance we give the things we make. Also a follow up on the Norman Seef video and how, for some photographers, the connection with the subject is the point and the photographs are merely a byproduct of the experience. Leonard Freed is our Photographer of the Week.

Jan. 13, 2014. A group of eminent photographers -- including Bob Adelman, Theresa Lynn Carter (daughter of Roosevelt Carter), Brigitte Freed (widow of Leonard Freed), and David Johnson -- remember the 1963 March on Washington in commemoration of its 50th anniversary. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6281

The works of photographer Leonard Freed, specifically the photo essay "This Is the Day" about the 1963 March on Washington, is the subject of a lecture and discussion. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5866.