JaNay Brown-Wood writes to inspire young readers through her work as an author, speaker and educator, creating children’s books highlighting diversity to help kids find themselves reflected in the books they read.

From the Archives: The Lasting Influence of the Beat Generation

Chuck Jones’ The Dot and the Line Celebrates Geometry & Hard Work: An Oscar-Winning Animation, 1965

Doris Fisher, co-founder of the Gap, dies at 94 in San Francisco

MUSIC HΞΛVΞN: Happy birthday to English composer and legendary electronic musician Delia Derbyshire May 5, 1937—July 3, 2001 ❝I did rebel. I did a lot of things I was told not to do.❞

How AI facial recognition in policing works – and how it can go wrong

Since the seventies, American composer and electronics aficionado Jill Fraser has created her own lane of musical experimentation and creativity.

Lost Ginsberg Recording Resurrected A long forgotten recording of a 1980 European tour performance featuring Allen Ginsberg has been re-discovered by an Austrian researcher and has now been made available to the public for the first time as a vinyl double album.

May 3, 1995: The Go-Nuts, 5,6,7,8's, Highlander II's • Jabberjaw, Los Angeles ᴀʀᴛ ʙʏ ᴄᴏᴏᴘ

New York Abstract Expressionist artist Richard Pousette-Dart, transmitter of invisible energies. “Great art leaves half the creation to the onlooker, gives the key to a creative experience. Draws the spectator into infinite mysteries.” Symphony 1: The Transcendental 1941-42 #RichardPousette-Dart

She’s not wrong. At some point you have to ask… are you part of the machine funding the problem?

He died of AIDS decades ago. His biological kids found him at SFMOMA A newly acquired artwork helped connect two half siblings to the man whose DNA they inherited.

ΛRT HΞΛVΞN: Happy Birthday to American artist Keith Haring May 4, 1958—February 16, 1990 ❝The public needs art — and it is the responsibility of a ‘self-proclaimed artist’ to realize that the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for a few and ignore the masses.❞‬

A rodent-borne illness is suspected of causing an outbreak aboard a cruise ship that has killed three people and sickened others.

BREAKING: Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani is in intensive care with severe food poisoning after fly kicking a trash can and eating the whole roast chicken he found inside

Black American stories of Route 66 reflect disparity of experience

Rep. @justinjpearson.bsky.social : “This is an attempt to stop majority Black communities from being able to elect representatives who look like them. Which was the purpose of the Voting Rights Act.”

May 3, 1948: Supreme Court ruled in Shelley v. Kraemer that federal and state courts could not enforce restrictive convenants which barred persons from owning or occupying property because of their race.

Andy Warhol presents The Plastic Inevitable Show with The Velvet Underground and Nico at The Trip - 8572 Sunset Strip, Hollywood, California • May 3—18, 1966

Happy heavenly birthday to American folk singer and social activist Pete Seeger May 3, 1919—January 27, 2014 🎞 Pete singing 'We Shall Overcome' in Berlin, 1967

DEATH Magazine by artists Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid, 1991-1992 [1/2]

5 Questions Mai Khôi (singer, composer, activist)

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UT Austin's public art program unveils four-story glass piece by pioneering Black artist Howardena Pindell

The Wild, Sad Life of John Cage’s First Lover Donald Sample

'We shower money on generals & on nobles, we keep high-born paupers living on the national charity, we squander wealth with both hands on...palaces; but we grudge every halfpenny that increases the education rate & howl down every proposal to build decent houses for the poor' (Annie Besant, 1893).

Keaton music typewriter, circa 1936. musicprintinghistory.org/about-music-...

The first group of dogs included in the Ridglan Farms agreement left the facility Friday, marking a major step in the plan to move 1,500 beagles from the Blue Mounds breeding and research facility to rescue groups.

May 2, 1969, Peanuts

May 2, 1960: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and Robert Rauschenberg, New York, New York 📷 ʀɪᴄʜᴀʀᴅ ᴀᴠᴇᴅᴏɴ

45-year old Guido Reichstadter is occupying the top of Washington’s Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge to protest the war on Iran.

Nicole Hollander, passed away at age 87. Safe travels, Nicole.

Georgia O’Keeffe is not known for portraiture but she did paint this portrait of fellow US modernist painter Beauford Delaney (1943), who she greatly admired. Delaney was a major figure of the Harlem Renaissance and also gay #Womensart

Seven Days In May starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March, and Ava Gardner, 1964 #FilmSky

International Workers' Day poster, nd

Republican New Hampshire Senate candidate John Sununu says he supports a work requirement for seniors on Medicare: "I certainly support a work requirement for able-bodied Medicare recipients."

Voting Rights Act is hollowed out by Supreme Court after 61 years

Leila Hyams in "Freaks" - BOTD

🍃 Happy Beltane🌷 to all who celebrateI

BREAKING: Activists have shut down multiple intersections throughout downtown Washington DC in opposition to Trump's attacks on workers, DC Home Rule, climate, and international peace. The actions kick off #MayDay events across the country.

What is May Day? Workers around the world have, for over a century, fought to ensure the bare minimum of labor rights. And May Day is just one day that commemorates their efforts. But what's the story behind the day in the United States?

Labor Day on May 1st. It was moved by the government to distance the day from the actual labor movement that birthed it. Following the Haymarket affair, a strong anti-union movement arose in the United States.

There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.

Joe Strummer and his white Fender Esquire ❝𝟭𝘀𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝗧𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗔 𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆❞‬ guitar. #MayDay

U.S. activists plan May Day economic blackout: ‘No school, no work, no shopping’ #MayDay

May 1-4, 1975: Television & The Modern Lovers ☆ CBGB, New York, New York

𝖗𝖆𝖇𝖇𝖎𝖙 • 𝖗𝖆𝖇𝖇𝖎𝖙 • 𝖗𝖆𝖇𝖇𝖎𝖙 ᴀʀᴛ ʙʏ ᴋᴇᴠɪɴ sʟᴏᴀɴ

Iggy is sending a message. The departure from his Coachella performance in a coffin and now this. Iggy Pop replaced by Britpop icon as he steps back from BBC radio show 💔