Andrew Jackson

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Photographer Montréal, Canada. Assoc. Lecturer: @@unioftheartslondon.bsky.social www.andrewjackson.art/ https://writtenbylight.substack.com/ https://www.instagram.com/andrewjackson_art?igsh=d3BqMXJ1NHdpZjhw

OTD 1964, the bBodies of James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman found in Philadelphia, Miss. Lynched by KKK assisted by local sheriff's deputies, after they arrived to help investigate the burning of church/freedom school. www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ci...

Aug. 4, 1964: Civil Rights Workers Bodies Found

The bodies of three lynched civil rights workers (James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman) were found in Neshoba County, Mississippi.

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Gaiters. Normandy, June 2024 On the 80th anniversary of V.E.Day. 80 years after America helped rescue Europe from fascism it's increasingly becoming difficult not to think who now will rescue us from America. From the series: Such is the Pathway

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French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

"Hello, are you a disgruntled American intelligence or military officer who has just been booted out by the current administration. Call 1-800-HELP-CHINA to find out how to pay your mortgage." This isn't going to end well. *Gets coat*

I really need to do better about posting things here! I’m also a photographer who doesn’t seem to share any photographs. Today, I just want to share some 2025 goals for accountability purposes. We all have newsletters right? Here’s a post from mine. buttondown.com/photographyi...

The road ahead for 2025

Time to get serious… I let myself down last year; I wanted to build and grow this newsletter. I planned on Semi-monthly releases (as if I had that much to...

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Dorothy B. Porter changed libraries 💜 The Dewey Decimal System used to only have two classifications for Black people: 325 (colonization) & 326 (slavery). Each book by a Black person was put into one of these classifications. A book of poetry? Classified as colonization. Enter Dorothy B. Porter 🧵

Dorothy Porter in 1939, at her desk in the Carnegie Library at Howard University. Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Manuscript Division, Howard University

“Recreating the self is a natural product of cultural memory, it is not something that is stored like a permanent cache. Remembering is imagining, so every time one forms a memory, one is just recreating it to form one’s selfhood, to give oneself a narrative.”

A cartoon drawing of a beheaded Sikh soldier whose ghostly head spills from his neck.