Prince's "Purple Rain" is 40. Here's a story from @ThisIsDig about the making of His Royal Badness's breakthrough album, film and tour. “There was no precedent for this,” Alan Leeds, Prince’s then tour manager, later recalled. “Rock’n’roll stars with a couple of hit albums did not make major movies. Let alone someone from the Black community having the gumption to do it in the mainstream.”
“10 Steps to Being an Ally to Marginalized Groups”
So you want to be an ally–yay! But what exactly does that mean?
By @Sherry_Kappel
OHF Weekly Managing Editor
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Saturday, June 22, would have been Octavia Butler's 77th birthday (the acclaimed writer died from a fall at age 58 in 2004). Artist Alison Saar has now created a collectible handcrafted edition of Butler's classic, genre-defying 1979 novel, "Kindred," in collaboration with publisher Arion Press. She and Arion creative director Blake Riley spoke to the San Francisco Chronicle about the process of creating the book, which includes 14 original linocuts and is made from a type of paper that Saar says, “looks like cotton that still has some seed and stem in it, the kind of leftover, rougher cotton that enslaved people would be allowed to keep to make their own clothes.”