My last article was about howGeorge Koltanowski slowly got better and better as a chess player; first in the early/mid 1920s (boring and slow), and then in 1928 when he embraced dynamics. Though he was a strong player at that point, he was even better with his eyes shut!

It was thought that Francois Philidor(French, 1726-1795) was the first person to challenge in two or three games without being able to see. However, blindfold chess was known far earlier by Arabian, Persian, Greek, Italian and even Spanish players. According to Muhammad bin Omar Kajina, there had been several players who would contest four or five blindfold games simultaneously in the 16th century.

After Philidor, Alexander McDonnell(Irish, 1798-1835) settled in London in 1820 and became a very strong blindfold player. A famous quote by McDonnell is the joke that the only things which spoil chess are the board and men.

George Koltanowski. Photo via Wikipedia.

Though there are many ways to play blindfold, eventually certain basic rules were accepted. Here is what Koltanowski said about blindfold exhibitions:

Let me try to explain what a blindfold exhibition represents. I sit with my back to the players and tell my moves to the teller, who goes from board to board making the moves for me. He tells me that moves my opponents have made. I give my replies as quickly as possible. I see no board and write nothing down on paper. This is pure memory, a king of momentary memory which has been developed to such an extent that I can now play 15 games simultaneously each day without feeling the strain.

Eventually, using those particular rules (there are other rules too), the chess gods jumped into the fray!

Finally, I have to mention Janos Flesch (Budapest), who played 52 games blindfold in 1960. However, it wasnt accepted since he was allowed to consult the scoresheets during the games.

In my first article about Koltanowski, I only looked for tournament games and nothing about blindfold. However, Kolty was not just playing tournament chess; he was also starting to train himself for blindfold. He played some blindfold games (to really see what he could do) and in 1921 he and some of his friend were addicted.

This is what Koltanowski said:

We played blindfold chess wherever we weredancing, hiking, on buses and trains; wherever two of us happened to be, we would begin a blindfold game. All over Antwerp people shook their heads at this babbling crew.

A year later I was playing 16 games blindfold, which represented a new Belgian record. In 1924, while in the Belgian army, I played 20 at Naur, a sorts of pay-off for having nothing to do but peel potatoes for two hours a day.

Here are some of Koltanowskis best (or most fun) blindfold games. Oh, every time you see a "Mynheer X" or "Senor X," it means Kolty didn't know the man's name.

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Black played very well, but a blunder gave Kolty the chance that he was hoping for.

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Kolty said, This was an exhibition in which I played against eight consulting teams of two players each. Dont forget that White was blindfolded, while his two opponents could see.

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Kolty really enjoyed this game, and he gave quite a few notes. You will like the game and notes!

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Kolty:The 1937 tour created some sort of a world record. I played 26 exhibitions in 26 days in 26 different cities, each nights event being a 10-board blindfold demonstration. I made a score of 94 percent in the 260 games, a result which is comparable to the best obtained in any chess masters tour on any country!

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Koltanowski, who had adventures in all of Europe and South America, permanently moved to San Francisco in 1947. He died in 2000 (96 years old).

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CHENNAI: The Madras High Court on Friday will hear the case related All-India Chess Federation (AICF)'s elections.

According to a senior AICF official, clarity on the election date would be emerged tomorrow as the High Court would hear a case in this connection. He said a majority of the electoral college has submitted an affidavit in his support.

The AICF secretary Bharat Singh Chauhan said on Thursday, 43 affidavits have been filed in the Madras High Court saying the minutes of the federation's general body meeting held on December 28 last year were valid.

"Forty-three affidavits have been filed with the Madras High Court saying the minutes of the AICF general body meeting held in Bhopal on December 28 last year, circulated by me is valid," Chauhan told said.

He also alleged that the rival camp led by president PR Venketrama Raja would make attempts to delay the elections by filing more cases.

"The rival faction will file more cases in a bid to delay the elections," he said.

Chauhan further said there would be clarity on the AICF elections date on Friday as the High Court is hearing the case.

The secretary and the Federation president Venketrama Raja have been at loggerheads over various issues.

Chauhan claimed the 43 affidavits were given by representatives of 19 state chess associations and six office- bearers of the federation.

One of decisions taken at the Bhopal general body meeting was to call a special general body meeting on February 9 in Ahmedabad to elect new office bearers for AICF.

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The various characters work together with synergistic abilities to give you an edge in battle. Each game has its own variation of this core mechanic, but they all function about the same way. This list is young much like the genre itself and we promise to improve it with each update. Here are the best auto chess games and auto battle games for Android!

Price: Free to plaly

Arena Allstars is a fairly decent auto battler. Players have access to a bunch of different maps, characters, and various game modes. It boasts matches with up to seven players along with a co-op mode if you want to play with friends or strangers. It also has a campaign, a practice mode, tournaments, and nice little things like emotes. The game seems to tick all of the boxes and most players seem happy enough. Most of the complaints either deal with connectivity issues or minor bugs with AI opponents not taking the damage they should. We assume these are all temporary issues, though. The game is free to play with an optional battle pass if you want to unlock premium content.

Price: Free to play

Arena of Evolution: Red Tides is another auto chess game that seems to hit most of the right notes. It has over 50 pieces to collect and use for your team. Additionally, players get eight player free-for-all PvP, and fairly standard auto chess mechanics. The game also lets you send and receive heroes to other players and features global servers for better or for worse. A lot of the games complaints comes from Internet connectivity issues. However, aside from that, the experience is solid all around. The developers also intend on adding cross-play between PC and mobile in a future update so check back for that if it interests you.

Price: Free to play

Auto Chess by Dragonest Games has a lame name, but its actually a solid game. It was among the first wave of auto chess games on mobile. It features seven-player free-for-all battles, an esports league, and, if you do well in the esports league, actual cash prizes. Thankfully, the game is actually quite easy to learn with one of the friendlier UIs weve seen in an auto chess game. We feel like this one is great for beginners to the genre and the difficulty only scales up from there as you face more and more competent opponents. Its biggest flaw is the finicky cloud saving feature. Be extra careful if you intend to uninstall and reinstall or buy a new phone because a lot of people have lost their save data.

Price: Free to play

Auto Chess Legends is another competent auto battler. The game boasts 15 minute matches (at the most), over 50 heroes to play with, a variety of game modes, and plenty of special events to keep things fresh. This one felt like one of the simpler auto chess games on mobile and its another one we recommend to new players in the genre. However, despite its simplicity, there are flaws. You can buy heroes and that introduces a potential pay-to-win mechanic, although we didnt noticed anything too nasty in our testing. This one has the potential to be great or bad and it seems like the developers havent quite made their choice yet. Its a fun game for the time being.

Price: Free to play

Badland Brawl is probably the simplest auto battler on the list. It uses a 2D, side-scroller map versus the traditional chess board style setup. Thus, this is an excellent game for beginners to the genre. However, the core premise is the same. You drop characters onto the board and they do battle with your opponents characters. The winner is the last one standing. It has a bit of a gacha element but its nothing too serious. Additionally, you can watch other people play the game if you dont feel like it. We may catch some flak for this pick, but we think its a good starter auto battler for folks new to the genre.

Price: Free to play

Chess Rush is another decent auto battler with all of the common core elements. You place characters, they synergize, and you beat your opponents if you outwit them. The game has over 50 characters along with various game modes, including two versus two, four versus four, and eight player free for all. It also includes a Turbo Mode with matches that last about ten minutes. It hits almost all of the right marks and that makes sense. This is a Tencent game, developers of Arena of Valor and PUBG Mobile. Aside from some connectivity issues, most people seem to enjoy the game and its nice to see bigger mobile game developers in the genre.

Price: Free to play

Clash Royale is the mainstream option for an auto battler. It most of the same elements as other games in the genre. You play characters on a board, they attack the other player, and the last one standing wins. This one is quite a bit different in execution, though, and has many game play elements from Supercells other hit game, Clash of Clans. Additionally, the game is a one versus one duel where most auto chess games have larger free for all modes. We would understand if you dont consider this a pure auto battler experience, but it fulfills all of the qualifications, even if its a bit closer to a deck-building game.

Price: Free

Dota Underlords is the most recognizable name in auto chess. The whole genre originated from a Dota 2 mod. The genre took off from there and Dota Underlords is the mobile version of the mod. It is your standard auto chess game so you should know how it works by now. You get heroes, you place them down, make synergies, and try to beat your opponents. Plus, the game includes an offline mode and a seasonal rotation that removes heroes and items in order to add new ones and keep things fresh. Its also in the only totally free auto chess game on the list. Its not perfect, but its solid.

Price: Free to play

Hearthstone is another game that may not fit here exactly, but its still an auto-battler and it belongs on a list like this. Its one of the most famous deck-building auto-battlers on any platform and most people know how it works. You build a deck, start a duel, put down your cards, and do battle. The last person standing wins. The game includes a few different game modes, cross-platform play with PC, and its a fairly mature game. Its not quite the same as most of the others on the list, but its close enough in most circumstances.

Price: Free to play

Magic Chess: Bang Bang is a return to the typical auto chess experience. There are over 50 heroes to play, eight player PvP, and the usual strategy that comes with an auto-battler. Were at the end of the list so there isnt too much to say here. It plays like you would expect with a decent UI and relatively simple learning curve. The micro-transactions arent as friendly as some others, but we didnt run into many problems with it. Its fairly decent overall.

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TEL AVIV A senior Iranian chess official is afraid to return to her home country after photos of her without a headscarf while at a tournament in Shanghai caused an outcry back home.

Women in Iran are routinely arrested for not adhering to a strict Islamic dress code which includes the hijab.

I turned on my mobile and saw that my picture was everywhere [in Iranian media]. They were claiming I was not wearing a headscarf and that I wanted to protest against the hijab, Shohreh Bayat, 32, told the BBC ,adding that she totally panicked when she saw the controversy she had caused.

Its against my beliefs. People should have the right to choose the way they want to dress, it should not be forced, Bayat, who is a chess adjudicator, said.

Bayat, speaking from Vladivostok in eastern Russia where she is now refereeing the second leg of the World Championship, said she had been wearing the headscarf but from certain angles it looked as though she hadnt.

Shohreh Bayat (C), chief arbiter for the match between Aleksandra Goryachkina (front L) of Russia and Ju Wenjun (front R) of China, prepares for the match during the 2020 International Chess Federation (FIDE) Womens World Chess Championship in Shanghai on January 11, 2020. (STR/AFP via Getty)

I was tolerating it because I live in Iran. I had no other choice. She added that it was highly possible she would be arrested upon her return to Iran, or else to have her passport invalidated.

There are many people in prison in Iran because of the headscarf. Its a very serious issue. Maybe theyd want to make an example of me, she told the BBC.

Bayat was angered that the controversy has overshadowed her impressive achievements in chess, the report said. Shes one of handful of women who are senior chess arbiters in the world, and the only one in Asia.

I cant think of any Iranian women who have worked at such a high-level tournament. But the only thing that matters for them is my hijab, not my qualification. That really bothers me, Bayat said.

Earlier this month,Kimia Alizadeh,Irans first female Olympic medal-winner, defected over Irans dress code laws.

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VLADIVOSTOK, Russia: An Iranian chess referee who has been accused of violating her countrys Islamic dress code while adjudicating a womens tournament says she does not want to return home from Russia out of fear for her safety.

Shohreh Bayat, 32, told Reuters she would not travel back to Iran unless she was given security guarantees in writing from the countrys chess federation.

I really hope they will provide me something to ensure I will be safe if I come back to Iran, said Bayat, who is in Vladivostok as chief referee at the Womens World Chess Championship.

But if that doesnt happen, Im just examining my options and considering anything.

The Iran Chess Federation could not immediately be reached for comment.

Bayat got into trouble during the first stage of the championship in Shanghai last week when Iranian state media criticised her for photographs in which she appeared not to be wearing a hijab.

Ever since the Islamic Revolution in 1979, all women have been required to wear the headscarf in public and sportswomen are also required to wear it abroad. Women who break the dress code can be publicly berated, fined or arrested.

Bayat says she does not agree with the hijab, but that she had been wearing a headscarf during the championships first matches, although it had been loose and was not visible from some angles in photographs of her.

Apparently it was not enough for the Iranians, she said.

Bayat also said that the Iran Chess Federation had asked her to write an apology and to post it online, something she said she had refused to do because she did not want to support the hijab publicly.

I just did not want to do that, she said.

Bayat then stopped wearing a headscarf altogether while presiding over subsequent matches.

I noticed that they have already condemned me, she said. I decided not to wear hijab because it wont change anything.

Nigel Short, the International Chess Federation vice-president, spoke out in support of Bayat on Twitter, calling her a great ambassador for her country.

Bayat is one of many Iranian sportspeople to come to blows with the authorities over the hijab and other policies.

Earlier this month, Iranian chess grandmaster Mitra Hejaziour was expelled from the national team for not wearing the hijab at the World Rapid and Blitz Championship in Moscow.

Bayats decision came days after Irans only female Olympic medalist, Taekwondo champion Kimia Alizadeh, announced she had left her homeland because she had had enough of being used by its authorities as a propaganda tool.

In December, Irans Chess Federation said top rated chess champion Alireza Firouzja had decided not to play for Iran because of an informal ban on competing against Israeli players.

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An Iranian chess referee who has been accused of violating her country's Islamic dress code while adjudicating a women's tournament said that she does not want to return home from Russia out of fear for her safety.

Shohreh Bayat, 32, told Reuters she would not travel back to her homeland unless she was given security guarantees in writing from Iran's chess federation.

"I really hope they will provide me something to ensure I will be safe if I come back to Iran," said Bayat, who is in Russia's far eastern city of Vladivostok as chief referee at the Women's World Chess Championship.

"But if that doesn't happen, I'm just examining my options and considering anything."

The Iran Chess Federation could not immediately be reached for comment.

Bayat got into trouble during the first stage of the championship in Shanghai last week when Iran state media criticised her for photographs in which she appeared not to be wearing the headscarf.

Since Iran's Islamic Revolution, all women are required to wear the headscarf, known as the hijab, in public and sportswomen are also required to wear it abroad. Women who break the dress code can be publicly berated, fined or arrested.

Bayat says she does not agree with the hijab, but that she had been wearing a headscarf during the championship's first matches, although it had been loose and was not visible from some angles in photographs of her.

"Apparently it was not enough for the Iranians," she said.

Bayat also said that the Iran Chess Federation had asked her to write an apology and to post it online, something she said she had refused to do because she did not want to support the hijab publicly.

"I just did not want to do that," she said.

Bayat then stopped wearing a headscarf altogether while presiding over subsequent matches.

"I noticed that they have already condemned me," she said. "I decided not to wear hijab because it won't change anything."

Nigel Short, the International Chess Federation's (FIDE) vice president, spoke out in support of Bayat on Twitter, calling her "a great ambassador for her country".

Bayat is one of many Iranian sportspeople to come to blows with the authorities over the hijab and other policies.

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Earlier this month, Iranian chess grandmaster Mitra Hejaziour was expelled from the national team for not wearing the hijab at the World Rapid and Blitz Championship in Moscow.

Bayat's decision came days after Iran's only female Olympic medalist, Taekwondo champion Kimia Alizadeh, announced she had left her homeland because she had had enough of being used by its authorities as a propaganda tool.

In December, Iran's Chess Federation said top rated chess champion Alireza Firouzja had decided not to play for Iran because of an informal ban on competing against Israeli players.

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Im suspicious of histories that attribute 21st Century DSM 5 diagnoses to characters who lived long before such conditions were ever identified. But then again, manic depression certainly existed before it was named by Emil Kraepelin in the late 19th century, and major depression, once called melancholia, has always been with us.

I also have a fascination with explanations in literature of mental illness written before Freud. Freud left such an indelible mark on the treatment of diseases of the mind, and the language used to describe them, that its almost unthinkable that these diseases were both described and treated without his influence.

The Club: Johnson, Boswell and the Friends Who Shaped an Age, a book by Leo Damrosch, is full of such stories.

The Club tells of a group of key figures of the enlightenment who met weekly in a pub in late 18th century London to discuss and debate issues and ideas. The books main characters, Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, were troubled by what we would certainly call mental illness today.

Johnson wrote criticism and poetry, but is best known for compiling what became the most complete dictionary of the English language, first published in 1755. Boswell, a landed lawyer from Scotland, was Johnsons friend and biographer.

Johnson led a life worth writing about. In and out of poverty, he lived with cast-offs from London society but remained a frequent dinner guest of influential members of parliament and ground-breaking lights in the arts. He suffered from terrible bouts of depression that kept him sick physically and mentally and kept his literary output low. He even ended up addicted to opium.

Through all of this he cultivated great friendships with people ranging from Adam Smith and Edmund Burke to George III, and he influenced some of the greatest minds of the west.

Johnsons trials with what was called melancholy were documented by Boswell in what is considered one of the greatest biographies ever written, The Life of Johnson. Boswell himself had periods of melancholy interspersed with times of high-energy and irresponsibility filled with trysts with prostitutes, lost money and drunken stupors.

Boswells grandiosity and impetuousness mixed with dark periods of guilt into behavior that would surely be called manic depression if he lived 100 years later.

Damrosch fills The Club with excerpts from the mens and their friends writing about flights of the mind and how personality and character are both developed and dismantled. While not ostensibly about mental illness, enough of the men and women featured in The Club suffered from poor mental health that the book serves as a great introduction to how psychiatry was first developed (much like the book Rush, which I reviewed here).

The 18th century was a time when diseases of the mind were still treated exclusively as physical diseases. Then science and philosophy set a very bright light on the notion and definition of the self. This is the point when mind/body unity was just beginning to break apart in western medicine and philosophy, and mental illness was soon seen as having causes and treatments that were not entirely physical.

Reading the thoughts and practices of the period covered in The Club tips us off to the fact that Freud and his theories were inevitable.

Damrosch has written an intellectual history of the sort that makes clearer where we are today, and how we got here. As the enlightenment elevated the individual and argued for rights independent of any state or church, the individual was left, in the case of morals and agency, to fend for themselves.

A new class of illness, that of the psyche separate from the body, was borne. As we place more emphasis today on mind/body medicine and seek to rejoin the individual mind to its physical space, its crucial to know how we got here, and what we learned along the way.

A history as well researched and written as The Club enables us to do just that.

APA Reference Hofmann, G. (2020). Mental Illness in the Enlightenment. Psych Central. Retrieved on January 22, 2020, from https://blogs.psychcentral.com/older-bipolar/2020/01/mental-illness-in-the-enlightenment/

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Countries that reject enlightened immigration policies are bound to miss out on the global tech boom, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said on Tuesday in an interview with Bloomberg.

Nadella expressed his views on foreign policies and their effect on the tech boom in an interview with Bloomberg during the World Economic Forums The Year Ahead event in Davos.

Bloombergs official twitter account (@business) had also shared a clipping of the interview where Nadella is seen talking about immigration policies and its effect on the technology industry with the caption, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella tells us countries that reject "enlightened immigration" policies will be the biggest losers when it comes to the global tech boom #wef20.

Nadella talked about US immigration policies and the potential of immigrants in contributing to a countrys growth.

To me even when I look at the contribution the immigrants even going forward can make is something that I think the United States should absolutely be tapping into, he said.

Talking about the recent developments in immigration policies of nations, Nadella said in the Bloomberg interview, Every country is rethinking what is in their national interest, borders are real, countries are thinking about immigration policies that help. But even in there they have to maintain that modicum of enlightenment and not think about it very narrowly.

Nadella had earlier expressed his concern about Indias Citizenship Amendment Act, calling it sad. The act that allows six persecuted minorities, except Muslims, to fast-track Indian citizenship has been dubbed discriminatory by many leading to anti-CAA protests across the nation with the Supreme Court of India reviewing more than 140 petitions filed against the Act.

Nadellas remarks had sparked furious debates across social media leading to an official statement being released by Microsoft on his behalf. Nadella had also expressed his hopes for a better state of immigration policies and more opportunities in India for immigrants in the statement.

My hope is for an India where an immigrant can aspire to found a prosperous start-up or lead a multinational corporation benefiting Indian society and its economy at large, Nadella had said.

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Its not just us saying it. Heather Cox Richardson is a respected political historian. Here is her bio:

Heather Cox Richardson is a political historian who uses facts and history to make observations about contemporary American politics. She is the author, most recently, of To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party.

Biography Im from rural Maine, was educated at Exeter and Harvard, and am now a professor of history at Boston College. I write books about the American past, and write articles about modern politics. The past informs my work on the present, not the other way around.

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Until the rise of talk radio in 1987 and the establishment of the Fox News Channel in 1996, we honored the Enlightenment values on which our government was founded: politicians had to attract voters with fact-based arguments or be voted out of office. But talk radio and FNC pushed a fictional narrative that captivated viewers who felt dispossessed after 1954, as women and people of color began to approach having an equal voice in society. That narrativeof a heroic white man under siege by a government that wants to give his hard-earned money to black and brown people and grasping womenhas led us back to where we started in 1776: a conflict between democracy and authoritarianism.

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Race! Its a sticky topic that many want to shy away from. Systematic racism is just as American as apple pie. It has been engravedinto the very founding of this countryand while weve overcome and overturned a lot of things, we still have far to go.

Unraveling Racism: Seeing Whiteness is the latest exhibition to open at the Norwest Gallery of Art on Grand River. Curated by Laura Earle, the gallery features 20 local artists, bothBlack and white. Earle was moved to create this project after seeing a large racial slur plastered on an Eastern Michigan University building outside of her studio window. I thought we were all over this, she said.

Thats when she decided to take a deep dive into exploring whiteness as it relates to systematic oppression and start a conversation between artists. A friend of hers said she should listen to the Scene on the Radio podcast from Duke University. She used the series entitled Seeing Whiteness as the foundation for the art exhibit. Her initial reaction to the podcast was devastating.

I had to take a break for several months because it hurt so much, she said as she fought back tears. It hurt to know I was complicit and I couldnt undo it. Its so hard to shake it all off.

The exhibit is set up as a journey through the conversations between the artists. Earle says in the beginning, it was hard and awkward to talk through the issues because the artists werent familiar with each other. One of the very first pieces in the gallery is a flag created by eggshells.

I felt the need to try to push through some of the separation and to try to build meaningful connections and relationships, Earle said.

One of the artists featured in the gallery is Donna Jackson. She has three pieces in the show exploring how whiteness envelopes the daily lives of Black people, the dueling identities of being American with African roots and the beauty of Blackness.

Like Earle, Jacksons initial reaction to the podcast was anger, but she also felt enlightenment.Enlightenment isnt always this ahhh moment, she said. Enlightenment is knowing and then what are you going to do with knowing. Theres racism all around the world but American racismthey did top notch work on that.

Jackson explained that she was excited to do the work and have the conversations about how racismaffected her life but was shocked when she learned the origins of racism and whiteness.

Someone somewhere made a decision that because of what I look like, where I came from that I was less than! Thentheycreated a whole institution, structure and system to keep me in place so that they can have a life that they wanted, she said.

Throughout the process, Earle and Jackson both stated that the artists leaned on each other for support and that it shows as you move through the exhibit.

You can tell someone is learning compared to someone feeling and the difference is seen in work, Jackson said.

Norwest owner Asia Hamilton was more than excited to help Earle bring her vision to Detroit. I was like YEAH lets talk about this because you have a lot of things on your heart and this is an opportunity to tell white people what you really feel, Hamilton said.

As one of the onlyBlack people in her photography courses, Hamilton didnt even notice how race wasaffecting her career decisions. This is an opportunity to discuss race in-depth, Hamilton stated. She is glad the show is during the month of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.s birthday an honor tothelegacy of uniting people of all backgrounds.

Whiteness is not about your skin color. Its about this experience that has been developed to keep people in very horrible situations, Jackson said.

Unraveling Racism: Seeing Whiteness is on display now at Norwest Gallery of Art (19556 Grand River Ave.) until Feb. 2. Visitors will get a chance to get inside the minds of the artists during panel discussions on Jan. 19 and Jan. 20. For more information on the exhibition, visitwww.norwestgallery.com

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