My artistic padlet by Harkirat Nehal

Week 4 #1

harkiratnehal — 2025-06-03 23:32:18 UTC

The article says Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction is really about a workers’ movement that got cut short. It shows how Black and white workers tried to team up but were blocked by powerful business interests, and argues that Du Bois’s idea of “abolition democracy” still helps us connect race and class today.

Week 4 #2

harkiratnehal — 2025-06-03 23:33:30 UTC

The article states that the Freedmen’s Bureau established schools and provided legal assistance, but ultimately failed to deliver the promised “40 acres and a mule” to Black families due to President Andrew Johnson's obstruction. It ties that land loss after the Civil War to today’s talks about reparations, echoing themes in Gates’s documentary.

Week 5 #1

harkiratnehal — 2025-06-04 00:12:10 UTC

This piece walks through Morrison’s 1993 Nobel lecture, explaining how she uses a fable about an old blind woman to argue that words carry moral power. It shows why the speech still matters for anyone reading her fiction today.

Week 5 #2

harkiratnehal — 2025-06-04 00:13:17 UTC

The reviewer says the film mixes interviews, art, and Morrison’s own voice to paint a warm, fearless portrait of the author’s life and ideas. It highlights how Morrison centered Black experience and why her legacy reaches far beyond literature.

Week 5 #3

harkiratnehal — 2025-06-04 00:14:17 UTC

This recent academic article analyzes Beloved, Sula, and The Bluest Eye to show how Morrison uses memory and community to challenge racism and sexism. It argues that her stories remain a guide for today’s struggles over Black women’s rights.

Week 6 #1

harkiratnehal — 2025-06-04 00:18:23 UTC

Explains how frustration with slow integration birthed the slogan “Black Power,” urging Black political, economic, and cultural self-determination that set the stage for the late-1960s movement.

Week 6 #2

harkiratnehal — 2025-06-04 00:19:01 UTC

Shows that the Panthers’ community programs and armed police-watch patrols pioneered tactics now echoed by Black Lives Matter and other mutual-aid networks.

Week 6 #3

harkiratnehal — 2025-06-04 00:19:55 UTC

Uses first-person stories of “Panther cubs” to reveal how the children of party leaders carry both trauma and determination into today’s social-justice work.

Week 7 #1

harkiratnehal — 2025-06-04 00:25:42 UTC

Traces how the movement fused jazz-driven poetry, community theatres, and fiercely Black aesthetics to broadcast cultural pride and political self-determination in step with Black Power.

Week 7 #2

harkiratnehal — 2025-06-04 00:26:13 UTC

Baraka explains that a poem should “work like a weapon” yet remain musical, showing how he welded art and activism without apology.

Week 7 #3

harkiratnehal — 2025-06-04 00:28:01 UTC

Connects BAM’s fiery literature, theatre, and visual art to grassroots civil-rights organizing, arguing that its cultural nationalism still energizes today’s liberation politics.

Week 8 #1

harkiratnehal — 2025-06-04 00:37:15 UTC

This profile traces how Joseph’s visually lush films "from Lemonade to Fly Paper" blend commercial flair with personal archive to frame Black history as everyday grandeur.

Week 8 #2

harkiratnehal — 2025-06-04 00:37:59 UTC

Reviewing Joseph’s two-channel news montage, the piece explains how nonstop clips, headlines, and home videos create a living, non-didactic portrait of Black America.

Week 9 #1

harkiratnehal — 2025-06-04 00:46:10 UTC

Film Comment hails BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions as “a refuge and charging station for resistance,” arguing its split-screen form turns viewers into active editors of Black history in real time.

Week 9 #2

harkiratnehal — 2025-06-04 00:47:33 UTC

Calling the film a “kaleidoscopic, vigorous, engrossing journey,” the review says Joseph stitches family memories, TikToks, and Du Bois quotes into a looping news feed that feels as alive as the culture it documents.

Week 9 #3

harkiratnehal — 2025-06-04 00:48:36 UTC

Screen Daily praises Joseph’s feature-length remix of his two-screen installation as a blistering news collage where viral clips, archival footage, and hip-hop beats reposition Black life at the center of the headline.