On November 24th, 2006, I traveled to the 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica, California, to observe and document how people were spending their time on “the busiest shopping day of the year,” the day after Thanksgiving. To narrow down the focus of my documentary, I decided to use photos of people and the bag or bags that they were carrying. The bag a person carries can lead to many assumptions about the person carrying the bag. In some cases, the owner of the bag may not be the person who carries the bag, though I believe the bags shown in Baggage are all carried by their new or longtime owners.
Birthday Tribute for Tupac Shakur Organized by Political Prisoner, Dr. Mutulu Shakur (tags)
Organized by Dr. Mutulu Shakur from behind prison walls, a bicoastal birthday tribute to his son, slain Hip Hop legend Tupac Amaru Shakur. Big name artisits scheduled to perform and attend in LA and NY, where the events are bieng held on June 14th (LA) and June 15th(NY).
SIMONE! By Mumia Abu-Jamal (tags)
"She sang songs with bite, and grit, and pride and longing... and rage. Deep, down, boneset rage, at how cheaply life was lived for Africans in America. "