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Review: Jacob Yanes Offers A Tapestry Of Meaning
latimes.com 2 weeks, 2 days agoTo enter the upstairs gallery at Steve Turner is to be startled by the staring, globular eyes of “Philomela,” Jacob Yanes’ life-size sculpture of the much-wronged figure from Ovid’s “Metamorphoses.” Her gaze is unsettlingly intense, perhaps a little cross-eyed, and heightened by the contrast between the stark whites of her eyes and her pitch-black skin and dress. She means to hold you accountable, and as the tapestry on the wall behind her reveals, she has much to lament.
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Inside FAMU Drum Major's Hazing
abcnews.com 1 week agoFlorida A&M drum major Robert Champion endured a brutal pummeling down the aisle of a pitch black bus that rocked from the force of the violence inside. He fought through a gauntlet of "friends" and band mates who used their fists, feet, straps and sticks to pound him unconsciousness. It was part of a culture that considers repeated "hot seat" beatings and the final "crossing over" gauntlet that killed Champion rites of passage.









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