LaToya Ruby Frazier on speaking through portraits, locating light within people, and transforming oneself in time of crisis. Part of Yale MFA Photo’s Pop-up Q&A series via zoom, which started in response to online learning during the 2020 pandemic.
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Gavin Brown’s enterprise presents… “MAY DAY” by LATOYA RUBY FRAZIER
This playlist is dedicated to all the essential workers, healthcare workers, the poor, working-class people of this nation and all around the world, to the uninsured, disabled, detained, to the prisoners, to the sick who can’t get their medication because politicians and pharmaceutical companies would rather line their pockets, to the elderly abandoned in nursing homes, to all the teachers who have died, to the unclaimed bodies being buried in mass graves, to all those who mourn loved ones taken out by this virus, to the farmworkers that fascist capitalists proclaim that this is not your land when history tells us it rightfully is your land — thank you for feeding this nation during this pandemic and ensuing famine, to the homeless and people in the nation who have no clean water access, or access to water in order to wash your hands, to the climate activists, first nations and indigenous people that continue to take a stand with their bodies on the line against fossil fuel companies that keep polluting and contaminating the earth and water thank you. To the 26.5 million U.S. workers that have filed for unemployment, It is never too late for the people to unite and fight for a more equal, just, humane, and sustainable life.
With unwavering Solidarity and Love, LaToya Ruby Frazier
Paul Robeson – I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night
Branford Marsalis – Berta, Berta
Skip James – Hard Time Killin’ Floor Blues
Sam Cooke – Chain Gang
Nina Simone – Work Song
C.B. And Ten Others with Axes – Rosie (Recorded at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman work camp in 1947)
Ed Lewis – I Be So Glad When the Sun Goes Down
Gary Clark Jr. – This Land
Billy Bragg – Which Side Are You On?
Billy Bragg – There is Power in a Union
GmacCash – On Strike
Jimmy Joe Lee – The Coal Miner Song
Gil Scott-Heron – Three Miles Down
Sweet Honey in the Rock – More Than a Pay Check
Big Bill Broonzy – Black, Brown and White
Lightnin’ Hopkins – It’s A Sin to Be Rich, It’s A Low-Down Shame to Be Poor
Almanac Singers – I Don’t Want Your Millions, Mister
Almanac Singers – Roll the Union On
Joe Glazer – Union Buster
Dorsey Dixon – Babies in the Mill
Pete Seeger – Eight Hour Day
Ross Altman – Haymarket Square
Bobbie McGee – Ballad of a Working Mother
Pete Seeger – Homestead Strike Song
Billy Bragg, Mike & Ruthy Merenda, Dar Williams and New York City Labor Chorus – Union Maid
Hazel Dickens and Alice Gerrard – Working Girl Blues
Ben Grosscup – Union Nurse
Jasiri X – People Over Profits
Barbara Dane – Unemployment Compensation Blues
Billy Joel – Allentown
Dolly Parton – 9 to 5
Bruce Springsteen – Youngstown
Marlene Dietrich – Sag mir wo die Blumen sind (Tell me where the flowers are)
Bruce Springsteen – Factory
Joan Baez – Bread and Roses
Look for the Union Label television ad featuring members of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union
John Lennon and Plastic Ono Band – Working Class Hero
Green Day – Working Class Hero
Strawbs – Part of the Union
The Kinks – Get Back in the Line
Prince & The New Power Generation – Money Don’t Matter 2 Night
Nina Simone – Backlash Blues
John Lee Hooker – Hard Times
The Stylistics – People Make the World Go Round
Joe Glazer – Farm Workers’ Song
1960s Farm Worker Protests and Strikes
Pete Seeger – The Farmer is the Man
Joan Baez – De Colores
Woody Guthrie – Deportee (Plane Crash at Los Gatos)
Teatro Campesino – El Picket Sign
Los Perros del Pueblo Nuevo – Corrido de Cesar Chavez
Los Lobos – Corrido De Dolores Huerta #39
Pete Seeger – This Land is Your Land
Taboo – Stand Up / Stand N Rock #NoDAPL
Amber Hasan – NO FILTER
Georgia Anne Muldrow – New Orleans
Georgia Anne Muldrow – Roses Pt. 2
Jimi Hendrix – The Star-Spangled Banner
Joan Baez – Forever Young (Bob Dylan cover)
Woody Guthrie – All You Fascists
Tracy Chapman – Talkin’ Bout a Revolution
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Moderated by US Senator Sherrod Brown, this year’s Lambert Family Lecture brings together visual artist LaToya Ruby Frazier and Oscar winning filmmaker Julia Reichert for a conversation about the power of art to spur social change. The pair delve into topics stemming from their recent projects, including the state of labor at home and abroad, the evolution of collective action, and more.
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A creative solution for the water crisis in Flint, Michigan
Artist LaToya Ruby Frazier spent five months living in Flint, Michigan, documenting the lives of those affected by the city’s water crisis for her photo essay “Flint is Family.” As the crisis dragged on, she realized it was going to take more than a series of photos to bring relief. In this inspiring, surprising talk, she shares the creative lengths she went to in order to bring free, clean water to the people of Flint.
This TED talk was presented at “We the Future,” a special event in partnership with the Skoll Foundation and the United Nations Foundation.
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Professor David Harvey talks about the work of photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier who documents the news of the Lordstown, Ohio plant closing and the impact it had on the workers, families and community at large.
Artist LaToya Ruby Frazier and curators Karsten Lund and Solveig Øvstebø discuss Frazier’s Renaissance Society solo exhibition, The Last Cruze. This talk took place during the opening reception on Saturday, September 14, 2019.
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