writer, photographer, and poet from Brooklyn, New York

Jéan-Claude Quintyne
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Beyonce’s Open Letter & the Response to Fatal Police Killings of African Americans

In what has become routine since the killing of Trayvon Martin years ago in Florida, an onslaught of hashtags, articles, news conferences and statements from celebrities have flooded the Web following the killing of Alton Sterling and Philandro Castile by police officers. Beyoncé became the latest celebrity to join the fray, publishing an open letter on her website. While the letter frames the importance of moving to action in the wake of these horrific tragedies by highlighting that we should
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An Apt Explanation of Why “Black-on-Black Crime” Isn’t a Thing

Michael Harriot, editor of NegusWhoRead, a digital magazine, wrote a witty, open letter to white people who can’t help bringing up the nonsensical “black-on-black crime” when in a situation to address race issues in the United States. The letter, published on The Root, puts the phrase and some of the factors that contribute to its existence into perspective, highlighting an important statistic and the culture surrounding it. “Almost every day, an advocate of the alt-right (pronounced ‘nee-yo n
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James Baldwin Documentary “I Am Not Your Negro” Set to Make World Premiere This Month

The first pointed documentary about James Baldwin, I Am Not Your Negro, is set to premiere this month at the Toronto International Film Festival. Directed by Hatian filmmaker, Raoul Peck, the piece explores thirty pages of notes Baldwin composed that set the framework for a book about Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr., all of whom were close friends of Baldwin. Peck learned of this project after going through exchanges through letters between the author and his agent. “Baldwi
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‘Emancipating the Past: Kara Walker’s Tales of Slavery and Power’ Exhibiting at Bellevue Arts Museum

Emancipating the Past: Kara Walker’s Tales of Slavery and Power, the latest exhibition from artist Kara Walker, presents three narrative portfolio series that confront conventional views of America’s Antebellum and Reconstruction-era history and aesthetic. The series features The Emancipation Approximation (1999-2000), which strongly exhibits Walker’s cut-paper work, Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War: Annotated (2005), a printmaking series in which she annotated Harper’s Pictorial His
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3.1 PHILLIP LIM FASHION STORY "SUNDAY MORNING"

Sunday Morning There’s the anxiety-riddled reflection singed into Sunday morning that requires her to examine the triumphs and failures of the week. Moments where she was so lost in that novel that she forgot to let the passengers off the train. An exchange with a colleague where she said something a touch too narcissistic. And how she made up for that social awkwardness by helping that mother up the steps with her stroller, clinging onto that moment until the
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It’s Long Past Time to Un-Blacken Poverty

The last line in an op-ed on Blavity, “To address poverty, we must first understand how impressive the ways we describe it are,” targets the source of the issue the piace focuses on: un-blackening poverty. The stigma that black folks are the poster child for poverty and the subsequent, false reinforcement of that in politics, film, and television has long afflicted the efficient tackling of the issue. Now, during a time when LGBTQ, female, and Black empowerment are prominent topics in the nation
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The Sopranos’ Steve Schirripa and His “Hot Dog” | Pet Lifestyles Magazine

Dogs have a gift, many actually, but what makes them so extraordinary is how they show us, each in their own unique way, how special they are. Though we may see Steve Schirripa as a tough guy, he’s got a tender heart when it comes to his dog, Willie, the dachshund. Remember Schirripa as Bobby “Bacala” Baccalieri in the hit series, “The Sopranos”? The “sweetest” mobster on the show until Tony Soprano forced him into brutality. Now he’s thrilled to be in “Blue Bloods” as no-nonsense Detective Anth
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MIU MIU "ROOM303" BY Alasdair McLellan

By emulating an all familiar, oversaturated photographic aesthetic—those snaps of friends in the club, a family packed in a restaurant booth, an evening traversing the city, or an illuminated sea of hands with glittering accessories and glowing drinks—the new Automne 2017 Miu Miu advertising campaign, shot by Alasdair McLellan, seeks to meditate on the “transience of youth.” It is the campaign’s candid, oft amateurish method in which the photos are taken that reminds us of the not quite non-exta