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Anti Blackness is Everywhere.

It will never not be a massive mindfuck to me how humanity has always made it entirely 1,000% ok to exclude Black People in any and everything that is a human concept — but it’s somehow “more racist” or “aggressively gatekept” for Black People to preserve ourselves, our own spaces and representation. 🫠

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Brazil: Oshun

Photography: Chester Higgins Jr.

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I must sleep. Sleep is the mind-healer. Sleep is the big-life that brings total ability to fucking do anything. I will face my bed. I will permit the blankie to pass over me and snores to pass through me. And when sleep has gone past I will turn the outer eye to greet the new morning. When the sleep has gone there will be everything. Energy and will to live will remain.

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J Dilla and his Cadillac “Dillalade”

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Today in Hip Hop History:

Bahamadia was born April 22, 1966

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Today In History

Charles Mingus, bassist, composer, pianist, and bandleader, was born in Nogales, AZ, on this date April 22, 1922.

A major proponent of collective improvisation, he is considered to be one of the greatest jazz musicians and composers in history, with a career spanning three decades and collaborations with other jazz greats such as Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Max Roach, and Eric Dolphy.

Mingus’ work ranged from advanced bebop and avant-garde jazz with small and midsize ensembles, to pioneering the post-bop style.

CARTER™️ Magazine

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A convo.

#The Diaspora

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Wes Montgomery,  Green Leaves Of Summer I  Road Song, 1968

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Hazel Scott & her kitty, 1966

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Rio Baile Funk, ph. Vincent Rosenblatt

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Billie Holiday at Carnegie hall, October 10, 1956.

By Carole Reiff.

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by Ruth Bernhard, 1944

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Jorja Smith by William Arcand for Tush Magazine October 2023

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Solidarity with the students of Columbia University and all those demonstrating against the genocide in Gaza.

Free Palestine. 🇵🇸

Now.

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Jazz Journal vol 40 n°7 - Stan Getz - July 1987