Newsboy selling the Chicago Defender, a leading Negro newspaper
Jack Delano - 1942
The Defender did not use the words "Negro" or "black" in its pages. Instead, African Americans were referred to as "the Race" and black men and women as "Race men and Race women." The Chicago Defender's local circulation soon surpassed that of the three rival papers that existed in the Chicago area at that time
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Ramon Casas (1866-1932)
"A Decadent Girl" (1899)
Located in the Museum of Montserrat, Barcelona, Spain
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Black compositional thought is a working term that considers how paths, throughways, waterways, architecture, objects, and geographies are composed by black bodies, and then how additional properties of energy, space, scale, and sound all work together in networks of liberation. There is a physical, material space of composition and then there is an energetic space of composition: how do they work together so that black people use those entities towards liberation? —Torkwase Dyson
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Malcolm X: Inspiring Change and Empowerment in the Fight for Equality
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Untitled (Hands), Jared Bark, c. 1973, from Photo Booth series
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History isn't a disparate collection of stories from long ago. It's the necessary context for the present moment and the forecast for the future. All histories are intertwined, and the narratives of power and privilege, oppression and resistance, adversity and triumph are as constant in their patterns as the laws of physics.
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Albert Edelfelt (1854-1905)
"The Parisienne (Virginie)" (1883)
Oil on canvas
Realism
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This Lesbian Poem by Akhaji Zakiya
from Lisa C Moore's Does Your Mama Know?: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Coming Out Stories
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