Rapinoe said her hope for that game is that it will be “just an absolute, like, media circus,” she said, grinning. “I hope it’s huge and crazy. That’s what it should be. This is the best game. This is what everybody wanted.”
https://www.theguardian.com/football/live/2019/jun/24/usa-spain-womens-world-cup-last-16-live-score
Watching the match on the Spanish language station I could not follow the commentary. Visuals made it clear the atmosphere on the pitch was very hostile. Cameroon was deprived of a goal for the most technical of reasons. It had nothing to do with the Referee on the field. It was the work of the controversial VAR system which most infuriated the Cameroon team and led to the breakdown of decorum into anarchy on the pitch.
The Guardian 6.23.2019
Deutsche Welle 6.23.2019
‘I’ve never seen circumstances like that on a football pitch’
Brit Coach Neville confirms that player Toni Duggan was deliberately spat on
On an evening when Phil Neville accused Cameroon’s coach of allowing his team to “shame football”, England’s progress to the last eight and a quarter-final in Le Havre against Norway on Thursday was almost reduced to a footnote.
After Cameroon took advantage of a poor clearance from England goalkeeper Karen Bardsley to begin the second half Ajara Nchout finished clinically.
But Cameroon’s abortive first goal was ruled out after the video assistant’s calibrated lines identified a fractionally offside position in the build-up. The decision was, theoretically speaking, correct, but that was of no consolation to Nchout, the 26-year-old bursting into tears in the arms of head coach Alain Djeumfa.
As the Cameroon players and staff gesticulated wildly in the direction of the big screens inside the stadium, play was delayed again. Referee Qin Liang had lost control, and England almost lost their composure.
England emerged with a 3-0 win but plenty of bruises. Steph Houghton, the captain, was said to be in “severe pain” while receiving post-match treatment after a blatant cynical stamp on an ankle from a Cameroon player. Houghton is now a serious doubt for the Norway game but England’s coach, who revealed that there had been “fighting” involving the Cameroonian entourage at the hotel the two teams are sharing in Valenciennes, seemed even more worried about the wider damage.
“I came to this World Cup to be successful but also to play a part in making women’s football globally more visible, to put on a show that highlights how women’s football is improving,” English Coach Neville said. “But I sat through 90 minutes today and felt ashamed. I’m completely and utterly ashamed of the opposition and their behaviour. I’ve never seen circumstances like that on a football pitch and I think that kind of behaviour is pretty sad. Think of all those young girls and boys watching.”
Neville also confirmed that Toni Duggan had been deliberately spat on in the first half. “That’s pretty clear, that’s one of the worst things you can see on a football pitch,” England’s coach said. “I’m very proud of Toni, she just wiped it off and played on. I’m so proud of my players’ behaviour.
“I’ve got to tell the truth and say that I’ve never seen behaviour as bad as Cameroon’s on a football pitch before. It was like being a kid when you lost and you went home, crying, with the ball. I didn’t enjoy the 90 minutes, I just felt sad. I can’t gloss over it and fudge it, I have to tell the truth.”
He had little sympathy for Djeumfa and his risible claim that the referee had wanted England to win. “Arsène Wenger told me teams mirror their managers,” Neville said. “England players would never behave like that but if they did, they would never, ever play for England again. I would say to Cameroon get your ship in order first before you start throwing stones.”
In the second half the Lionesses should have had a penalty and Cameroon a couple of players sent off but the referee, diplomatically, refrained from making those decisions due to genuine fears the match would descend into total anarchy. By the end she genuinely seemed to fear for her physical safety.
The Local Germany 6.22.2019
Once described as “poor but sexy”, Berlin has seen its housing costs double over the last decade as employees lured by the strong job market move into the city.
The sharp rent hikes have led some residents to ponder radical solutions, including pushing for the seizure of housing stock from powerful landlords.
Alarmed by the trend, Berlin’s city government agreed to the outlines of a draft law that would include a temporary freeze on rents for five years from 2020.
Photo – Lee Heidhues, Kreuzberg Neighborhood Berlin May 2017
Under the plan that could affect 1.4 million properties, landlords who seek to raise rates because of renovation work will also have to seek official approval for any increases above 50 cents per square metre.
Only social housing and private property that has not been let out would be exempt.
The move, by Berlin’s coalition government of the centre-left SPD, the Greens and far-left Linke party, is being closely watched across Germany, where a backlash is growing over fears that residents are being priced out of key cities.
In an indication that the Berlin example could snowball into something wider, the SPD, which is also the junior coalition partner in Chancellor Angela Merkel’s federal coalition, has pledged to champion such rent controls nationwide.
“We need a rent price cap for all of Germany,” said Thorsten Schäfer-Guembel, one of the three interim SPD leaders.
He argued that the measure would help “win time to build, build and build”.
The SPD’s stance however puts it on a collision course with Merkel’s centre-right bloc, putting more pressure on their already fragile partnership.
Merkel herself has voiced scepticism about such caps, warning that “we must also provide an environment for people to want to build.
“It must remain advantageous and attractive to invest in residential property.”
While the political climate in Berlin is turning against landlords, the influential property-owners association Haus und Grund has said it would not be cowed.
In a clear call for pre-emptive action, the association urged members to raise rents by Monday night (June 17th).
Haus und Grund chairman Carsten Brückner told public broadcaster Inforadio
that the planned policy “makes no distinction between very large landlords and small private property owners who do not behave irresponsibly with rents and modernisation”.
The situation in the German capital has become all the more acute since the end of the Cold War and reunification, becoming a tourism and party hotspot as well as an investment magnet.
Although there are still huge swathes of unbuilt land and new construction mushrooming across the city, much of what is coming onto the market is out of reach for low-income locals.
The rates in Berlin are still below the rates in key capitals around the world. But average rent prices in Berlin have pushed past 10 euros per square metre per month, according to a recent study by a real estate group CBRE Berlin and German mortgage bank Berlin Hyp AG.
The rental freeze debate comes as residents are trying to seize the initiative by pushing for a referendum to seize buildings from landlords with more than 3,000 apartments.
On Friday, the initiators of the citizens’ vote said they had cleared the first hurdle by obtaining 77,001 signatures — more than three times higher than the 20,000 needed to launch such a referendum.
For the Tagesspiegel daily, the trend of runaway rents and growing revolt grew out of from the government’s failure to tackle the problem.
“If the rental cap splits the government, then that’s something that it brought upon itself: because for far too long, far too little has been built. But the call for new construction alone won’t help.”
https://www.thelocal.de/20190618/berlin-poised-to-freeze-rents-for-five-years-amid-rocketing-costs
Boris Johnson already has the reputation for being difficult and rowdy. Here is more grist for the English tabloid mill.
The Guardian 6.22.2019
Neighbour records shouting and banging at flat pro -Brexit MP Boris Johnson shares with Carrie Symonds (Shown above).
Police were called to the home of Boris Johnson and his partner, Carrie Symonds, in the early hours of Friday morning after neighbours heard a loud altercation involving screaming, shouting and banging.
The argument could be heard outside the property where the potential future prime minister is living with Symonds, a former Conservative party head of press.
A neighbour told the Guardian they heard a woman screaming followed by “slamming and banging”. At one point Symonds could be heard telling Johnson to “get off me” and “get out of my flat”.
The neighbour said that after becoming concerned they knocked on the door but received no response. “I [was] hoping that someone would answer the door and say ‘We’re okay’. I knocked three times and no one came to the door.”
The neighbour decided to call 999. Two police cars and a van arrived within minutes, shortly after midnight, but left after receiving reassurances from both the individuals in the flat that they were safe.
When contacted by the Guardian on Friday, police initially said they had no record of a domestic incident at the address. But when given the case number and reference number, as well as identification markings of the vehicles that were called out, police issued a statement saying: “At 00:24hrs on Friday, 21 June, police responded to a call from a local resident in [south London]. The caller was concerned for the welfare of a female neighbour.
“Police attended and spoke to all occupants of the address, who were all safe and well. There were no offences or concerns apparent to the officers and there was no cause for police action.”
Johnson and Symonds have increasingly appeared together at public events in recent weeks. The former mayor of London topped Thursday’s ballot of Conservative MPs in the party leadership contest and is now the favourite against Jeremy Hunt to be the next prime minister.
The neighbour said they recorded the altercation from inside their flat out of concern for Symonds. On the recording, heard by the Guardian, Johnson can be heard refusing to leave the flat and telling Symonds to “get off my fucking laptop” before there is a loud crashing noise.
Symonds is heard saying Johnson had ruined a sofa with red wine: “You just don’t care for anything because you’re spoilt. You have no care for money or anything.
”The neighbour said: “There was a smashing sound of what sounded like plates. There was a couple of very loud screams that I’m certain were Carrie and she was shouting to ‘get out’ a lot. She was saying ‘get out of my flat’ and he was saying no. And then there was silence after the screaming. My partner, who was in bed half asleep, had heard a loud bang and the house shook.
”Johnson left his wife, Marina Wheeler, last year and began a relationship with Symonds, who has been credited with revitalising his appearance and approach to politics. She was part of his team when he publicly launched his campaign for the Tory leadership earlier this month.
In recent weeks the couple have been sharing a flat in a converted Victorian house. It has been reported that they intend to move into Downing Street together if he is elected leader.
Johnson’s office was contacted earlier on Friday for comment but had not responded by the time of publication.
A woman who was knocked unconscious by a cyclist will be awarded compensation, despite a judge finding she had stepped into the road while looking at her phone.
Robert Hazeldean, a garden designer, who was also knocked out by the collision, will pay thousands in damages and court fees to Gemma Brushett, who works for a finance firm in the City of London and runs yoga retreats.
Hazeldean was returning from work in July 2015 when he crashed into Brushett as she crossed a busy junction near London Bridge. She launched a legal claim for compensation after sustaining a minor head injury.
Judge Shanti Mauger, at Central London county court, said the cyclist was “a calm and reasonable road user” and that Brushett was looking at her phone when she walked into the road in front of him.
The court heard that Brushett was one of a “throng” of people trying to cross the road at the start of rush-hour. She was looking at her mobile phone when crossing the road, and only noticed Hazeldean approaching at the last moment, despite the traffic lights showing green.
The court was told she panicked and tried to step back, but the cyclist, who had been travelling at 10-15mph, swerved in the same direction and hit her.
Judge Mauger said: “When I stand back and ask: ‘How did the accident happen?’ it seems to me that Mr Hazeldean owed a duty to other road users to drive with reasonable care and skill,” she said.
“Even where a motorist or cyclist had the right of way, pedestrians who are established on the road have right of way. Mr Hazeldean did fall below the level to be expected of a reasonably competent cyclist in that he did proceed when the road was not completely clear.”
Mauger said Brushett‘s conduct as a pedestrian must have contributed to the accident. “Ms Brushett must clearly have equal responsibility if she is crossing the road without looking – and if she is looking at her phone, even more so,” she said.
The judge’s ruling found that the parties shared responsibility, so while Brushett is guaranteed a payout, she will get only half of the full value of her claim.
The case will return to court at a later date for costs and damages figures to be fixed.
The Supreme Court made a correct and logical ruling in striking down racial bias in Jury selection. Regrettably and predictably, Clarence Thomas weighed in with a misguided and extreme Opinion which would have allowed this type of prosecutorial behavior to continue unabated.
Wall Street Journal 6.21.2019
WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court on Friday reaffirmed its strict prohibition against racial bias in jury selection, voting 7-2 to overturn a black defendant’s murder conviction by a Mississippi court after a prosecutor dismissed 41 of 43 African Americans over the course of six trials for the same killings.
Writing for the court, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said it was unnecessary to break new legal ground. But the “extraordinary facts of this case” required the court’s intervention.
Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Justice Neil Gorsuch, dissented.
Justice Thomas, in dissent, accused the majority of pandering to news media interest in the Flowers case and acting on its own bias against state courts in the South. Justice Thomas contended there were race-neutral reasons for striking nearly every black juror and that the conviction should stand.
Most trial courts allow lawyers to exercise a number of peremptory challenges during jury selection—that is, dismissing potential jurors without providing a reason. But in a 1986 case, Batson v. Kentucky, the Supreme Court held it was unconstitutional to do so based on race.
The Supreme Court has expanded the Batson principle since 1986 and now forbids sex-based use of peremptory challenges. But in his Batson concurring opinion, Justice Thurgood Marshall, the court’s first black member, said peremptory challenges should be banned altogether.
Starting in 1997, Doug Evans, the district attorney in Winona, Miss., prosecuted Curtis Flowers six times for the same crime. Two trials ended with hung juries, while three convictions with death sentences were overturned by the Mississippi Supreme Court for prosecutorial misconduct or racial bias in jury selection. The fourth conviction and death sentence—in 2010, by a jury with 11 whites and one black—was upheld by the state courts.
“Equal justice under law requires a criminal trial free of racial discrimination in the jury selection process,” Justice Kavanaugh wrote Friday.
He added, “Enforcing that constitutional principle, Batson ended the widespread practice in which prosecutors could (and often would) routinely strike all black prospective jurors in cases involving black defendants.”
“In the decades since Batson, this Court’s cases have vigorously enforced and reinforced the decision, and guarded against any backsliding,” Justice Kavanaugh also wrote. He was joined in the majority opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.
Mr. Flowers was convicted of the 1996 killings at the Tardy Furniture Store in Winona. The victims included the owner, Bertha Tardy, 59 years old, and three employees, Carmen Rigby, 45; Robert Golden, 42; and Derrick Stewart, 16.
Mr. Flowers, then 26, had worked at the store, but no physical evidence tied him to the crime scene. Prosecutors argued he killed the victims in revenge for being fired.
Winona already merited a footnote in civil rights history. In 1963, civil-rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer was arrested while her intercity bus made a rest stop. At the 1964 Democratic National Convention, she recounted being beaten and taken to jail. “We are going to make you wish you was dead,” she said an officer told her.
Today, Winona’s population of 4,500 is 44% white and 48% black, census data show. Mr. Evans has held the office of district attorney since the early 1990s.
It was clear during the oral arguments in March that most justices found the case troubling. Justice Elena Kagan observed that Mr. Evans examined black jurors more aggressively than whites, with more questions and to different ends.
“This prosecutor would question a white person who said that he or she had reservations about the death penalty,” she said, with the questions designed to elicit a promise to follow the law regardless.
“But if an African American said that he or she had qualms about the death penalty, the prosecutor would say the exact opposite,” Justice Kagan said, “like, ‘Well, it would be really hard for you to apply the death penalty then, wouldn’t it?’”
“The district attorney offered valid race-neutral reasons for each strike,” said Jason Davis, who represented the state of Mississippi.
“Any prosecutor can easily assert facially neutral reasons for striking a juror, and trial courts are ill-equipped to second-guess those reasons,” he wrote in 1986, adding that some racial bias could even be subconscious. The only complete solution, he said, was “banning peremptories entirely.”
Write to Jess Bravin at jess.bravin@wsj.com
New York Times 6.20.2019
WASHINGTON — President Trump approved military strikes against Iran in retaliation for downing an American surveillance drone, but pulled back from launching them on Thursday night after a day of escalating tensions.
As late as 7 p.m. Thursday, military and diplomatic officials were expecting a strike, after intense discussions and debate at the White House among the president’s top national security officials and congressional leaders, according to multiple senior administration officials involved in or briefed on the deliberations.
Officials said the president had initially approved attacks on a handful of Iranian targets, like radar and missile batteries.
The operation was underway in its early stages when it was called off, a senior administration official said. Planes were in the air and ships were in position, but no missiles had been fired when word came to stand down, the official said.
Top Photo – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani
LE HAVRE, France—The signs were mildly menacing for the U.S. women’s soccer team’s World Cup game Thursday against Sweden. Swedish players had spoken of the U.S. looking past the game. Both teams had already qualified for the round of 16. Yellow-and-blue-clad fans filled large sections of Stade Océane at a tournament where U.S. fans have overwhelmed others.
Then the game started.
In the third minute, Megan Rapinoe fired a corner kick through traffic to Lindsey Horan, who poked the ball past Swedish goalkeeper Hedvig Lindahl. Horan’s goal was the fastest of this World Cup.
The message was loud, and amplified by the crowd of 22,418 that still packed in plenty of Americans: The U.S. wasn’t messing around. It cruised to a 2-0 victory over Sweden to win Group F and signal to future opponents that its first two games weren’t just résumé padding.
The defending World Cup champions and No. 1 team, having dispensed with the world No. 9 team, look ready to take on other top contenders.
“I think we’re hitting our peak at the right time,” U.S. midfielder Rose Lavelle said.
Minutes into the second half, Rapinoe passed from the left side across the middle and Heath settled the ball in the right corner.
Then Tobin Heath dribbled around her defender deep into the right corner. She fired, and the ball bounced off Sweden defender Jonna Andersson and into the left corner. It later was ruled an own goal, and it put the U.S. up, 2-0.
“I was obviously itching to play because I didn’t play the last match,” Heath said of coach Jill Ellis’s decision to start a lineup of mostly backups against Chile. “And it’s the World Cup so you kind of want to bring your best and perform.”
The U.S. broke a record for goals scored in a World Cup group stage, with 18.
U.S. goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher, the biggest question coming into this tournament because she hadn’t played a single World Cup minute, stood up to several stout shots after facing almost no pressure against overwhelmed Thailand and Chile. So far in the World Cup, U.S. opponents are scoreless.
“Alyssa was fantastic today,” Heath said.
Thursday was the sixth meeting between the U.S. and Sweden in the World Cup, making it the most common matchup in the tournament’s history. The U.S. now has a 4-1-1 record against the Swedes at the World Cup, the lone loss coming in 2011.
San Francisco Examiner 6.19.2019
From Klay games to the Death Lineup, one can’t tell the story of the dynasty without these games
By Cyril Penn
Special to S.F. Examiner
The Golden State Warriors journey from lovable afterthought to villainous basketball tyrant may be finished. With the summer of 2019 expected to shake the foundations of the NBA, an exhausted team coming off five consecutive NBA Finals appearances is expected to go through myriad changes.
There’s no avoiding the big questions facing Golden State. How will the move across the Bay Bridge from “Roaracle” to San Francisco’s waterfront Chase Center change the home court dynamic? Who will be back among the Warriors’ bevy of star free agent talent? Can Golden State continue to contend, or will the Warriors fall swiftly from grace like other dynasties before them?
These questions will be asked ad naseum throughout the offseason, but rather than try to answer them now, it’s time to reflect on the games that have defined the Warriors’ dynasty, as the NBA approaches a tipping point, and the balance of power begins to shift for the first time in five years.
No. 5: June 1, 2017 — NBA Finals Game 1 vs Cleveland; 113-91 win
If any game truly exemplifies Golden State in peak “this isn’t fair” mode, it’s Game 1 of the 2017 Finals.
In his first Finals game with the Warriors, Kevin Durant led the way with 38 points as his squad built up an eight-point halftime advantage before their customary third quarter surge saw them open the second half on a 13-0 run.
They forced the Cavaliers into 20 turnovers, with LeBron James committing eight. With only four turnovers throughout the entire game, Golden State tied the record for fewest in a Finals contest.
The Warriors became the first team in NBA history to start the playoffs with 13 consecutive wins after sweeping through the Western Conference, ultimately finishing with the best winning percentage (.941) in NBA playoff history as they finished 16-1. While the team was expected to gel even more after another year of playing together, in hindsight, the 2017 playoff run was perhaps the most dictatorial of all-time.
No. 4: June 10, 2019 — NBA Finals Game 5 at Toronto; 106-105 win
This game will be remembered as the one in which Durant ruptured his Achilles tendon — a moment that may end up changing the course of NBA history as we know it.
Durant’s return to the court after a calf strain in the Western Conference Semifinals silenced his haters once and for all regarding the perception that he is “soft.”
He and Kevon Looney both returned from injuries to help their squad stave off elimination, and both showed how tough they were by gutting out gritty performances.
Without the aforementioned pair for most of the game, Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson combined for 73 percent of the team’s total points as the Warriors overcame 10 straight fourth quarter points from Kawhi Leonard to narrowly steal a victory, with Draymond Green barely getting his fingers on Kyle Lowry’s potential game-winning shot.
This game had one of the most bizarre endings in recent memory, with the Warriors turning the ball over multiple times and DeMarcus Cousins nearly goaltending the team into elimination, yet they escaped with a win and forced one last game at Oracle Arena.
No. 3: June 19, 2016 — NBA Finals Game 7 vs Cleveland; 93-89 loss
Perhaps the most devastating loss in Golden State history, with Mike Breen shouting, “Blocked by James!” still haunts the nightmares of Bay Area fans who saw their team’s historic 73-9 season end in dramatic fashion.
After building a 3-1 series lead, Green’s Game 5 suspension began to turn the tide for Cleveland. His incredible Game 7 output of 32 points, 15 rebounds and nine assists brought the Warriors close, but with Curry and Thompson combining to go 12-for-36 from the field and Harrison Barnes shooting 3-for-10, Green’s effort was not quite enough.
“The Block” was followed by a dagger three from Kyrie Irving and Cleveland snatched away the championship.
An hour or so after the game, still fuming at his locker, Green sent a text to Durant.
“See what we’re missing,” Green texted his future teammate, according to Sports Illustrated’s Lee Jenkins. “We need you. Make it happen.” Less than a month later, Durant signed with Golden State.
No. 2: May 28, 2016 — Western Conference Finals Game 6 at Oklahoma City; 108-101 win
Often reffered to as “The Klay Game,” pundits consider this as one of the ultimate “What-If” games in recent NBA history.
Thompson set the record for 3-point makes in a playoff game, going 11-of-18 from beyond the arc on the way to a 41-point outing. Down by eight heading into the fourth quarter with a 3-2 series deficit against the last edition of the Durant-and-Russell-Westbrook-led Oklahoma City Thunder, the Warriors got 22 fourth- quarter points from Thompson, including six 3-pointers.
His eleventh three? A go-ahead dagger from 25 feet that gave the Warriors a 104-101 lead with two minutes left.
The win at Cheasepeake Energy Arena gave Golden State the momentum to take Game 7 at home, and ultimately may have been the biggest factor between Durant leaving the Thunder in free agency in the offseason.
Had Thompson not propelled the Warriors to victory, Golden State likely never evolves into a true dynasty.
No. 1: June 11, 2015 — NBA Finals Game 4 at Cleveland; 103-82 win
The highlights of other games during the Warriors’ otherworldly run may stick out more, but no game has defined Golden State — or changed the course of NBA history — as much as Game 4 of the 2015 Finals.
It is known as the birth of the “Death Lineup,” but this contest also changed modern basketball as we know it, marginalizing the center position to make lumbering big men unplayable in certain playoff situations, while empowering skillful players and quick-footed defenders.
Special assistant to the head coach Nick U’Ren theorized that replacing Andrew Bogut with Andre Iguodala in the starting lineup and sliding Draymond Green to a small-ball center position would limit the impact of Cleveland’s Timofey Mozgov and Tristan Thompson.
Trusting his staff like few head coaches, Steve Kerr took U’Ren’s advice, and the fact that U’Ren now serves as Golden State’s Director of Basketball Operations tells you all you need to know about how well the move went.
Trailing 2-1 in the series, the Warriors blasted the Cavaliers in the final three games, and Iguodala was crowned as Finals MVP for his role in the newfound lineup and ability to slow down James at his peak.
The “Death Lineup,” which eventually evolved into the “The Hamptons Five,” turned throwback centers and back-to-the-basket forwards into relics of the past and birthed a new era of spacing and tempo that has overtaken the NBA landscape.
These Warriors have left a lasting legacy in multiple facets of basketball, but the implementation of the “Death Lineup” shows exactly how much a dynastic era can influence the perception of an entire sport.
https://www.sfexaminer.com/sports/five-games-defined-golden-states-dynasty/
I read a Commentary in the San Francisco Chronicle by Art Critic Charles Desmarais in which he scrutinizes the tenure of the soon to depart Chair of the Trustees Dede Wilsey. In his commentary an upcoming exhibit is discussed as part of Fine Arts Museum managment’s effort to be current with contemporary art, “Soul of a Nation.”
This November, the de Young Museum welcomes the internationally acclaimed exhibition, Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power, 1963–1983, organized by the Tate Modern in London. This powerful and provocative presentation focuses on art made in the pivotal decades between 1963 and 1983, when issues of race and identity dominated and defined both public and private discourse. Rarely has an historical exhibition proved to be so timely—and to provoke so much meaningful discussion among its numerous viewers.
The works in Soul of a Nation were forged in a crucible of institutionalized racism and codified prejudice that had pervaded the entire American nation for centuries. Galvanized to take action, and inspired by the Civil Rights struggle for equality and justice, African American artists determined to use art and culture as catalysts for self-definition, self-empowerment, and self-determination.
The artists represented in Soul of a Nation worked in numerous cities across the United States and in multiple media. The de Young’s presentation of Soul of a Nation will include an expanded group of works by artists who worked in the Bay Area. Their paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, collages, assemblages, and custom clothing contributed to the Black Power movement by promoting personal and cultural pride, collective solidarity and empowerment, political and social activism, and pan-African nationalism. Long marginalized, these revelatory works and the enduring relevance of their messages are now understood to be central to the complex histories of American culture.
https://deyoung.famsf.org/exhibitions/soul-of-a-nation
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