Tag: Boots Riley
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Love and Fire: Boots Riley on Art, Labor, and Mass Movements
The Coup’s 2012 album, also titled “Sorry to Bother You” (intended to be the film’s soundtrack, before the screenplay started getting the attention of various famous musicians like Janelle Monáe, who ended up on the film’s actual soundtrack) came with an insert featuring this short treatise laying out Boots Riley’s communist political praxis. For much…
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Boots Riley: Power Is Not In Elected Office
The following are excerpts from an interview by Patt Morrison of the LA Times published on July 18, 2018. PM: There are many people who, like your character Cassius — Cash — who say, “Look, I agree with you, but I need to pay the bills, and if I have to cross a picket line…