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ANTHONY ALDEN PHOTOGRAPHY "Live At Aretha Franklin Amphitheater"

ABOUT ANTHONY ALDEN

               Photographer Anthony Alden as a child. Photo taken by father the late Clifton Vines. Anthony Alden Vines, pen name Anthony Alden" is the youngest of ten children, eight boys and two girls.  He grew up in Toledo, Ohio a small Midwestern city located on the doorsteps of Detroit, MI. Anthony was blessed to have creative mentors all around him starting with his father the late photographer Clifton Vines.  Anthony was also mentored by seven brothers. The late Marvin Vines a national acclaimed fine artist and brother documentary photographer the late Thomas Vines set a standard of excellence for Anthony to reach for. "Mason" photo by Anthony Alden Anthonys Grandmother Ethel Washington was a concert pianist and Great  Grandfather Cornelius Edwards started Toledo, Ohio's first African American newspaper 1922 "The Toledo Observer."  In that same tradition Anthony launched Urban Flava Magazine one of the first Midwest urban hi

RACIAL AGITATION by Anthony Alden

Rumors spreading mainstream media outlets continue to blackout and censor police brutality and the protest the arise from them are not surprising. We must not forget most mainstream media outlets are owned by rich, conservative, right-winged drones whose news feed us what they want us to see and hear. Information is censored to dumb us down and keep Americans passive for fear if they “wake up” the truth will set our minds free from all the programmed propaganda. Mainstream media feeds are mainly for the benefit of white America. The generation who run and control this country was spoon feed on shows like Mayberry RFD. Sheriff Andy Taylor, Deputy Barney Fife, and Opie Taylor all-white cast took place in a small Southern town free from crime and people of color. The social upheaval that occurred during The Andy Griffith Show's final 1968 season (including the Vietnam stalemate, student/ street protests, the slayings of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and Bobby Kennedy, and ra