a people’s archive of materials that remind us another world is ours to build.
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Toward A Third Cinema
FERNANDO SOLANAS & OCTAVIO GETINO
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Criteria For Black Art
W.E.B. DUBOIS
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The Artist Must Take Sides: Testimony at the Senate
PAUL ROBESON
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The AfriCOBRA Manifestos: Ten In Search of A Nation (1970)
AFRICOBRA
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Towards a People's Art: The Harlem Artists Guild
GWENDOLYN BENNETT
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The Revolutionary Theater (1965)
AMIRI BARAKA
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Toward A Third Cinema
Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino
First published in 1969 in the Cuban journal Tricontinental, “Toward a Third Cinema” emerged from the militant work of Argentine filmmakers Fernando Solanas and Octavio Getino, members of the clandestine Grupo Cine Liberación. Writing amid dictatorships and anti-imperialist struggle across the Global South, they rejected Hollywood’s profit-driven model and called for a revolutionary cinema rooted in collective production, political clarity, and solidarity with the peoples of Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
The Harlem Arts Guild
Gwendolyn Bennett
The Harlem Artists Guild emerged in 1935 at the intersection of art, labor, and anti-racist struggle, organizing Black artists as part of a broader united front for economic security, cultural power, and political rights. Gwendolyn Bennett’s 1937 report captures this formative moment, revealing how Black artists built institutions, demanded federal employment, and fought collectively to claim their place in a society structured against them.