“Jazz. Covers. Politics: Album Art in an Age of Activism” is an
exhibition at The Nathan Cummings Foundation in New York City featuring
more than 175 jazz album covers, actual covers along with some
reproductions, that “make the politics visible.” Here, writer Clarence Reynolds reviews the exhibit.
Angela Davis, in reality, has been free from jail since 1972. But that
was a generation ago and filmmaker Shola Lynch in her riveting
documentary “Free Angela Davis (And All Political Prisoners)” recounts
those turbulent times when Davis was hunted, captured, and tried for her
alleged involvement in a shootout in a courtroom in San Rafael,
California, in 1970.
For many people, money woes stem from lifestyle choices that their salaries cannot support, not a lack of income. Make 2013 the year that you will start living within your means.
