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I read somewhere that someone said society is a choice between complete freedom and complete equality but MLK said no one is free until we’re all free. 

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{On Megabus between Cleveland and Chicago}

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“The Flourishing Business of Murder,” Chicago Tribune, March 26, 1916 link

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Chicago Transit Authority, Grand Avenue Blue Line 'L' station

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I saw “Reaction Film: Black Power” at the Stony Island Arts Bank in Chicago on Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2017. The film features individuals including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Muhammad Ali discussing the meaning of “Black power”. The original 16mm print was digitized by Chicago Film Archives, and currently resides in their collection. You can watch the 15-minute film here: https://goo.gl/l34V5O

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Hyde Park, Chicago (unknown date)

Scanned from slide, edited

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Hence the charm of family albums. Those grey or sepia shadows, phantom-like and almost indecipherable, are no longer traditional family portraits but rather the disturbing presence of lives halted at a set moment in their duration, freed from their destiny; not, however, by the prestige of art but by the power of an impassive mechanical process: for photography does not create eternity, as art does, it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.

André Bazin, “The Ontology of the Photographic Image”

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Reprint of my dad in Cuba (photo taken c. 1958, reprinted August 1967)

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Field recording: Man playing guitar and tambourine at Chicago Blue Line Grand Avenue station (January 9, 2017)

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day 2017 video series at the Stony Island Arts Bank. Programming by Black Cinema House.

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Stony Island Arts Bank, Chicago

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Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X on violence

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The University of Chicago, Swift Hall (unknown date)

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“In the Gloaming,” Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 1894. I scanned this photo from an album belonging to my stepdad, David McDowell, while I was home for Christmas. The photo was taken by his grandfather, Herbert Axford, of his (David’s) grandmother. Cyanotype prints (which get their name from the cyan-blue color of resultant developed images) like this one seem to age much better than e.g. silver gelatin prints. (The word “gloaming” means “to become twilight” or “to grow dark.” Ex: “With the gloaming came the familiar call of the whip-poor-will,” Mirriam-Webster.)

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If the eye were an animal, sight would be its soul.

Aristotle, De Anima