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A Different Perspective – Remembering James Dean, Founder of the NASA Art Program

In March 1962, NASA Administrator James Webb addressed a two-paragraph memorandum to NASA Public Affairs Director Hiden T. Cox about the possibility of bringing in artists to highlight the agency’s achievements in a new way. In it, he wrote, “We should consider in a deliberate way just what NASA should do in the field of fine arts to commemorate the … historic...

Matt James, Black masculinity, and the Captive Maternal – Scalawag

“I see the expansion of heart and compassion. I don’t see a counter to organized terror.” — Joy James, “The Architects of Abolitionism: George Jackson, Angela Davis, and the Deradicalization of Prison Struggles” “[A]ny desire to save oneself from social death is already proof that the sacrificer is socially dead.” — David...