Tag: history

New ‘Penny Dreadful’ Teaser Teaches a History of the Occult

From Dreadcentral.com:

In the upcoming season Vanessa (Eva Green) and Ethan (Josh Hartnett) form a deeper bond as the group, including Sir Malcolm (Timothy Dalton), Dr. Frankenstein (Harry Treadaway), and Sembene (Danny Sapani), unite to banish the evil forces that threaten to destroy them. Meanwhile, Dorian Gray (Reeve Carney), the Creature (Rory Kinnear), and Brona (Billie Piper) are all waging battles of their own.

Read more at the Dreadcentral.com site.

Analyzing 90 Years of Arab Comics

Features a great art sample by Fouad Mezher

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The Illustrated Story of Persian Polymath Ibn Sina

How He Shaped the Course of Medicine

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1st successful American-born magician was a black man

Abracadabra!

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Black Women of 1970’s-1980’s Horror Cinema

Upcoming New Documentary Will Highlight Them!

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Educational Video Game Simulating US Slave Experience Leaves Many Divided

Read about Mission US: Flight to Freedom at Atlanta Blackstar’s “blerds.”

Other games in the series: Mission US: For Crown or Colony?, Mission US: A Cheyenne Odyssey, and Mission US: City of Immigrants.

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Check Out This Week’s MECCA Con interview: John I. Jennings, Artist & Associate Professor!

Go here to read about this hip-hop historian, art curator and con organizer.

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“Strange Fruit”: Looking at Racism Through Comics

Jones & Waid on Examining Racism, Cultural Legacy

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The Surprisingly Diverse History of Skinhead Culture, in All Its Controversial Forms

“By showing the ways in which minority subgroups — gay skinheads, black skinheads, female skinheads, even SHARPs (Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice) — communicated their messages, Skinhead: An Archive achieves something entirely different . . .”

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