This week, one artist reimagines Michael Jackson's Thriller, another puts the visions of a '70s revolutionary to music and a new film tells the story of a restaurant-running SoCal commune. 5. Panther politics remix Pictures of Huey P. Newton, the activist who co-founded the Black Panther Party in 1 ... More >>
Gary LeonardWhat makes Joan Didion the quintessential writer for Pacific Standard Time isn't just her presence at the defining social movements of the 1960s and 1970s. True, in her forty years of reportage, fiction, and most recently in memoirs, she has examined many of them. Whether she's w ... More >>
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Perhaps it's not as iconic a still life as the cop-shattered storefront window with the big Huey Newton poster in it. But the image of an American Apparel shop's plate glass, smashed because it displayed a pro-gay marriage T-shirt, should give us pause. The incident happened this week at a sub ... More >>
A cache of letters hidden in the basement brings to life a house, a family and the tragedy that would change everything
The improvised gesture
A Deep South in the East Bay
A fortunate son on the old country
Blacks and the blind art of seeing America
Abu Ghraib, The WB’s Superstar USA, Black Panthers
Honk if you love Horace Tapscott
On the Black Panther legacy Tour, history sits in the back of the bus
