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This Saturday, May 29th, Renton will host a Black Lives Matter Artwalk at 625 S 4th St from 12pm to 5pm, featuring a collection of local artists of both visual and performance mediums.

Event organizer, Franchesca Vargas said she has worked with and been supported by the Renton Municipal Arts Commission to put on this event.

This years event, she says, is tied around the theme of Embodying Black Excellence.

Vargas hopes that those who attend this weekends BLM Artwalk approach the experience with an open-mind and that they listen, to what the collection of performance and visual artists have to say through their art.

She said she believes art allows people to connect with experiences they may have otherwise been unfamiliar with and that people who listen, with empathy they will leave feeling touched and moved.

Artist, Charles The Original Spur, Conner, said he has been an artist of varying mediums for as long as he could remember.

After a stint serving in the military, Conner said he felt like he had lost the edge on some of his artistic skills and felt out of the loop.

After spending a lot of time drawing and sharpening his skills, he has now developed his own styles and flavors through digital art, abstract art and paint pours.

Conners paint pours utilize beautiful color scheme spectrums that organically stretch and bend across the canvas often creating a cosmos-like nebula of both complementary and contrasting colors.

He said his art often uses bright color themes to contrast the deep thought inducing emotions that his art is intended to convey.

Conner said he is excited for this weekends BLM Artwalk because with so many Black creatives in the same space, people will get to learn more about who they are and he believes this will bring the community closer together.

We all have something to say as artists, Conner said We all express it differently.

Painter and collage artist Trenise Tree, Williams, said she is proud of Renton for being open-minded and giving this collection of artists a chance to be seen and heard.

Williams uses acrylic paint and collage techniques to make her art. She said often she does not know what her art will look like when she begins and instead lets her vision for the piece develop through her process.

Williams said she often uses poems and sketches from other artists and friends in her collage work.

At this weekends BLM Artwalk, she said she plans to work on several canvases at once as she allows people to watch her process.

Williams said she hopes the event allows attendees to gain some perspective and understanding about the artists experience and leave with some clarity as to who they are.

We are connected as Black people, Williams said But we are all so different.

For more information on some of the other artists at the event visit their socials here:

@jonarra

@the.supreme.creator

@mirrors.of.melanin

@d.t.i.creativestudiosix

@_kingspen

@mahoganypurpose

@joshua.quarles

@ms_charde_brown

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Black Lives Matter - The Nation

The photography exhibition called Choose Your Weapon will open at the Harvey B. Gantt Center in June.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. One year after the nationwide protests that followed the death of George Floyd, the images of those moments in history still live on. But through those photos, one photographer is hoping itll continue to spark action for even more social justice.

Rewind back to this same time last year and E. Mackey recalls being filled with emotion and a desire to do something about it.

Just devastated overwhelmed, Mackey said. How could I make a difference -- and I realized I had my camera and I just went out and documented.

His initial plan to go to Minneapolis and photograph the Black Lives Matter protests for just a few days quickly grew into something much more. The work of his photo activism soon caught the attention of strangers willing to donate thousands of dollars to the cause. It's an opportunity that allowed Mackey to spend the next three months traveling all across the country documenting the BLM movement in 11 different cities.

I thought Ill just stay on the road until I run out of money, but I never ran out of money because people kept donating, Mackey said.

He adds his inspiration came from Gordon Parks, who once said his camera was his weapon. Its this same idea that Mackey hopes will inspire others to find their weapon as well.

Every day, people can choose whatever they have at their disposal as a weapon against injustice," he said.

The Choose Your Weapon exhibition will open at the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture on Friday, June 4, and remain on display until the beginning of October.

Contact Briana Harper at bharper@wcnc.com and follow her on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

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Artist showcases photos of nationwide Black Lives Matter protests one year later - WCNC.com

Jeangu Macrooy, the Netherlands entry, takes the stage to sing Birth of a New Age, a song penned in response to the police killing of George Floyd and the subsequent resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement worldwide.

Skin as rich as the starlit night / Your rhythm is rebellion, the gospel-influenced song begins, saluting the protesters who demanded justice for Floyd last year.

In the chorus, Macrooy switches from English to Sranan Tongo, the language of his native Suriname, a South American country that was once a colony of the Netherlands. Yu no man broko mi, he sings, over and over: You cant break me.

Eurovision is well known for songs that take stands on social or political issues. In 1971, Germanys Katja Ebstein sang Diese Welt (This World), a pro-environment track that was radical for its time. More recently, acts have pushed for gay, lesbian and transgender rights in Europe.

So its great to see Macrooy continuing that trend although, sadly, he has almost no chance of winning. Few countries ever win Eurovision twice in a row. Ireland did three times in the 1990s, but by the third time they were desperate not to win again. The winner hosts the next years show, and it was starting to get expensive.

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The Netherlands Eurovision entry featured a Black Lives Matter moment. - The New York Times

Jordan Peterson and Malcolm Gladwell both have new books out, called, respectively, Beyond Order: 12 More Rules of Life, and The Bomber Mafia: A Story Set in War. Both of the Canadian authors' new books have been getting meh reviews. A few years ago everyone had an opinion of their previous books.

Gladwell's Talking to Strangers was savaged by some critics, beloved by others. His bestsellers are polarising. They either pronounce he is a master of looking at things differently and delivering this truth in an easy and accessible way. Or they think he peddles soft pop pseudoscience in an easy and accessible way, making it seem as if it is new and reliable. A New York Times reviewer pulled this apart and concluded that his success lies in sceptics becoming believers: "It's exactly what Mr Gladwell's towering success - his five bestselling books, his six-figure speaking fees, his top-rated podcast - rests on: the moment when the sceptic starts to think that maybe we're wrong about everything and maybe, just maybe, this Mr Gladwell guy is onto something." But Gladwell's The Bomber Mafia is different to his other books. There's hardly any tipping point. It began as one of his "Revisionist History" podcasts in which he examines s a moment from the past, seeking the overlooked and the misunderstood. In The Bomber Mafia he explores morality and war when it comes to precision bombing in World War 2. Gladwell, as per usual, is a riveting storyteller, but this is not an explosive or controversial work.

Peterson, on the other hand, has done nothing new. It's a follow-up to his 12 Rules of Life, so maybe he was stretching it to come up with another absolute 12 rules. He is still spewing his same trite traditionalist ideology that moms and their sons gobbled up as the new way forward for men, but this time it's watered down. Maybe because he had somewhat of a breakdown after the success of his first book. As the Guardian wrote, "Peterson seemed to relish the conflict, going on tour, producing a podcast, a YouTube channel and appearing on combative TV interviews, inspiring his supporters and provoking his enemies. But then stories emerged of his withdrawal from the frontline of the culture wars. In the 'Overture' of Beyond Order, the follow-up to 12 Rules for Life, he details an extraordinary story of physical and psychological collapse, as an autoimmune response to something he ate led to a drastic change in diet and a dependence on the sedative benzodiazepine. He also suffered extreme anxiety, severe depression, insomnia, double pneumonia, his wife underwent surgery for cancer, and at one point he was put into an induced coma in a Moscow hospital in an unsuccessful attempt to free him from drugs. It's hard to resist the conclusion that 12 Rules for Life was a self-help book that left its author in exactly the kind of hopeless state to which it promised to be an antidote."

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Malcolm Gladwell and Jordan Peterson are back - and the reviews are meh - TimesLIVE