Blood Beats: Vol. 2by Ernest Hardy Writing from a critical center that is melanin based feminist pro queer unabashedly leftist, LA based writer Ernest Hardy (a Sundance Fellow and member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association whose work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Vibe, the LA Times, the LA Weekly and more) pens essays, interviews and reviews whose subject matter ranges from underground hip hop and American indie film to modern French cinema, from revealing

our visions… We are coming home with our heads held up high

that’s cause i works lik somekinda old dog trying to git a bone or two

In these pages established authors appear alongside emerging talents and heretofore unknown artists to compelling

this text opens doors to worlds we might otherwise pass by

”We intended gospel to strike a happy medium for the down-trodden

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

© 2007 by Steven G

Hemphill died from complications relating to AIDS

Say It Loud: A Celebration of Black Music in America

In the Life

begun by Joseph Beam and completed by Essex Hemphill after Beam's death in 1988

” he wrote