IMDB_Michael Francis Williams (CLXXXI) | Paradigm | Curtis Brown | Partizan | GDR LLP | Mutero Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
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Michael F Williams retweeted
did u know kodak camera company added there boom burst effect (brightened photos allowing black skin to be seen)to their cameras during apartheid era south africa so that they could create what we know as “black books” lists of names and photos of suspected revolutionaries
Michael F Williams retweeted
Very excited to share with folks that Joshua Williams was finally freed today, and smiling ear-to-ear on a Group FaceTime chat after being released this afternoon and on a long ride back to St. Louis. Josh was a Ferguson political prisoner who was so so wronged, but that’s for another day. Today is a joyous day as Josh feels what freedom feels like and a real meal tastes like. #MikeBrown
Michael F Williams retweeted
hadn't really hit me that some of the voters who just sent a Black man to the Senate from Mississippi remember having to pay poll taxes. American history is so short. Historic. So so so so so happy for them.
Michael F Williams retweeted
This is the opposite of going back to brunch and I am here for this type of lib energy
i think everyone thought they could be rich and white if they went with this guy. but then they learnt couldn't be rich and white so they said fuck it lets go back to dreaming we can.
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Chinese pottery discovered in Great Zimbabwe reveals medieval African empire's vast connections spanning thousands of miles
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Michael F Williams retweeted
I feel like saying our ancestors died for our right to vote reduces their struggle for liberation to just the ballot box. Like they didn’t die for it, they were murdered fighting for liberation past the ballot
The more I sit with this the sadder i feel. Juan created a global modern music. Carried the torch from George Clinton into the future. Black artists of this magnitude come along once in a lifetime if we're lucky. Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Robert Johnson. Juan Atkins. ..
None of us dance today, like this, without Juan Atkins (1962-2026)
As a child, he developed a secret technology and sequence method to breathe emancipation into consumer-grade rhythmachines.
A grandmother’s love started all this; a gifted Korg MS-10 provided a Black teenager from the outskirts of Detroit means to produce a forever thing. An architecture for us all to dream up worlds where a future with technology is funky and not deathgiving. May your philosophy carry us into the next. REST IN PEACE. Now in sonic infinitum mode.
“He (JUAN ATKINS) was already imagining and creating a future for which much of the world had not yet developed a vocabulary. And that distinction matters enormously.” _ Jeff Mills
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Michael F Williams retweeted
“OFI” by Model 500
One of my favourite Juan Atkins tracks, off one of his more recent releases. Used to play it loads. Impossible for a record to sound more Detroit. He was still making bangers 30 after he started, at the age of 50+.
RIP Juan
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Michael F Williams retweeted
If you care about giving black trans femmes a platform to tell stories. Then this short film is for you.
It's on YouTube now youtu.be/RRyARu1uVOY?is=zbES…
