So…I found this interview with Muhammad Ali from 1972. He’s in Ireland for a bout. A famous journalist there, Cathal O’ Shannon, gets an hour of his time for TV.

It’s stellar. Including the way Cathal listens to him so intently. Ali’s stories moved me. As did Cathal’s captivation.

This clip about Black people’s lack of trust for white people is edifying.

Here’s the whole interview:
https://vid.northbound.online/w/qL2pquYgr2aPayzg6Cjv7B

#MuhammadAli #Ali #Interview #History #Blackness #Race #SystemicRacism #Ireland

Margaret Wilkerson Sexton - On the Rooftop

1950s USA in a Black neighbourhood. Book chapters alternate among the perspectives of a mother and three daughters, each with her own dreams. Family, ambition, love, change, music. Difficulties, but a pleasure to follow along as each protagonist finds her way.

#fiction #books #1950s #USA #Blackness #music #women #family #community

Brandon Taylor on the Quandary of Black Art

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/brandon-taylor-on-the-quandary-of-black-art

"You Were Never Meant to Survive Alone" is a framework I have developed for Black queer abolitionist care rooted in refusal, kinship, and survival.

It’s not a clinical manual. It’s a map, a ritual, a refusal to leave each other behind. 🖤

#abolition #blackness #queerness #drift
https://vincentmousseau.net/en/framework/

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100 years ago, artists and writers were forging new visions of #Blackness—across America and abroad. Hear how #music, #fashion, #literature, and #art helped shape a modern #Black #identity.
This five-part series features a dynamic cast of speakers who reflect on the legacy and #cultural impact of the Harlem Renaissance.

🎨

#art_podcast #museum_podcast #culture #museum #society

#TeenVogue #Kpop #culture #Blackness #BlackMastodon

I've always been fringe re: K-pop, just watching it on free streaming and such, and marveling over Black fans' activity on the old-school Twitter/X some years ago.

But I do follow Teen Vogue for how they select & cover various topics, and this new series looks interesting.

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/i-was-a-black-k-pop-fan-for-2-decades-unstanned

#forth #bridge #blackness
Forth bridges from a couple of evenings ago, taken from Blackness.

Una linea del colore che divide, ma non riunisce https://www.carmillaonline.com/2025/04/16/una-linea-del-colore-che-separa-ma-non-unisce/ #BarbaraOfosu-Somuah #KevinOchiengOkoth #razzializzazione #lineadelcolore #panafricanismo #SaidiyaHartman #Utopiacapitale #proletariato #W.E.B.DuBois #frantzfanon #KwameNkruma #Interventi #Recensioni #StatiUniti #blackness #schiavitù #MalcomX #origini #Africa #Ghana

In search of Saadia

"Over the years of fighting anti-blackness in Tunisia, Mosbah has herself become a living archive of the stories of suffering and humiliation faced by those racialized as black."

https://africasacountry.com/2025/04/in-search-of-saadia

#AIAC #Africa #Tunisia #Slavery #Blackness #BlackMastodon

‘Blackness Is Not Defined by Pain’: Psychologist Dr. Raquel Martin Urges End to Gatekeeping in Viral Post https://shinemycrown.com/blackness-is-not-defined-by-pain-psychologist-dr-raquel-martin-urges-end-to-gatekeeping-in-viral-post/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Blackness #MentalHealth #DrRaquelMartin #IdentityPolitics #Gatekeeping

"Why do you want me to be like a sunflower turning towards the sun? I am the sun."

Legendary Senegalese film director, producer, and writer, The Father of African Film #OusmaneSembène on rejecting Eurocentric views and opinions in favor staying true to his African roots, narratives, and audiences. From the 1994 documentary 'Sembene: The Making of African Cinema'.

🔁 @knowyourcaribbean via @moviesofcolour

Courtesy of artdontsleep from Instagram.
#africa #racism #blackness #blacklivesmatter

HWB (Hue, Whiteness, Blackness) is a cylindrical-coordinate representation of points in an RGB color model, similar to HSL and HSV. It was developed by HSV's creator Alvy Ray Smith in 1996 to address some of the issues with HSV.

#HWB #RGB #HSL #HSV #color #colors #Hue #Whiteness #Blackness

This was always HELL!!!! And THEY have always been DEVILS!!!!!! Liberate your mind!!!! All the greats have tried to tell us. Lack of KNOWLEDGE OF SELF. #BLACKNESS IS ROYALTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It’s not a myth and the reptiles know it. Please WAKE UP!!!!

#ChristConsciousness #SpiritualAwakening #AscendedMaster

Happy Birthday Nina Simone. I love you. 🖤✊🏿

#ninasimone #blackwoman #blackness #happybirthday

#Marseille, 25 février. À noter dans vos tablettes.

Je parlerai du nécessaire décentrement du regard historique et de l'utilisation des archives tel que mis en oeuvre dans deux grands ouvrages que j'ai eu l'honneur de traduire : #AFRICAN EUROPEANS d'Olivette #Otele et BORN IN #BLACKNESS de Howard #French.

White Voyeurism: the passive spectator who won't dare confront White Supremacy but leans in for the spectacle. Craving non-whiteness as entertainment, they consume it for pleasure, fascination or trend-chasing while keeping a safe distance from the struggles & scars it carries. It's the thrill of sampling Black culture w/o ever wearing the weight of Blackness.

#WhiteVoyeurism
#Blackness
#clout