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RoCo’s latest exhibit is a real artpocalypse
Rochester Contemporary’s ‘Last Year On Earth’ showcases creative responses to the events of 2020.
Posted inNews & Opinion
Rochester shows love with valentines for girl pepper-sprayed by RPD
A Rochester-wide initiative to collect valentines from community members to the 9-year-old who was pepper sprayed by police is underway.
Posted inCulture
Myra Brown’s call to fight for justice
The Rev. Myra Brown believes in living the Scriptures by standing up for the oppressed and confronting hate.
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Art and social justice series ‘Black House Narratives’ debuts Thursday
21st Century Arts presents an 11-day, robust program of screenings, visual art, performances, and discussions with activists and artists.
Posted inMusic
Full-hearted hip-hop
As Skitzo LuvHartd, Tyshawn Pettway makes vivid hip-hop that boldly addresses the Black experience and his diagnosis of schizophrenia.
Posted inCulture
VSW mirrors the moment with ‘The Power of Protest’
On July 30, Visual Studies Workshop draws from its rich archive of documentary films to address evergreen issues of race, alongside performances by local poets.
Posted inNews & Opinion
Protest organizers: Outsiders didn’t loot our city
Organizers of Rochester’s Black Lives Matter rally reject the narrative that outsiders were to blame for mayhem.
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Group seeks more police accountability
The Rochester Coalition for Police Reform, a social justice group led by the Rev. Lewis Stewart, is calling for abolishing the current Civilian Review Board and replacing it with a new board with much stronger oversight powers. The current board doesn’t have the power to independently investigate complaints, or subpoena testimony or evidence, and has […]
Posted inMovies
Web series ‘Dark Justice’ finds satire in tension
There are any number of ways to bring attention to a hot-button issue, and among the trickiest methods to pull off gracefully is satire. When the subject you’re looking at is the current state of race relations in our country, the stumbling blocks are innumerable. But that didn’t dissuade filmmaker and Rochester native Mike Gerbino […]
Posted inNews & Opinion
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“Fruitvale Station”
Arriving laden with prizes from the usual festivals, “Fruitvale Station” demonstrates once again the relevance of the small, independent films shoehorned into the narrow space amidst the noisy blockbusters, witless comedies, and insipid chick flicks that clog the summer screens. Along with such documentaries as “Capitalism: A Love Story,” and “The Tillman Story,” and a […]
