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Messiah Rhodes

a recent media fellow at Democracy Now!, directs, shoots and edits documentaries that have been featured in festivals, educational distribution, on platforms such as Vice, Huffington Post, Village Voice & others.

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Scary Negroes with Guns

By Messiah RhodesFebruary 23, 2015
The imaginary guns that white people perceive in black hands reveal a longstanding fear of black resistance
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