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Mustapha Matura (17 December 1939 – 29 October 2019)

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Oliver Edward Nelson (June 4, 1932 – October 28, 1975)

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She uses herself as a primary model in order to promote an idea of "self-love" as articulated by Bell Hooks in her book Sisters of the Yam, because as Cox writes in an artist's statement, "slavery stripped black men and women of their dignity and identity and that history continues to have an adverse affect on the African American psyche."

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Fela Kuti would have been 87 today

Ernest C. Withers (August 7, 1922 – October 15, 2007) was an African-American photojournalist. He documented over 60 years of African-American history in the

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James Arthur Baldwin (neé Jones; August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987)

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@nvo987 shared the text below

🎭 Harlem Stage Takes Its Show on the Road for the First Time
“Freedom Riders,” a performance featuring monologues about police violence against Black people, played in cities throughout the South before returning to New York.

https://www.harlemstage.org/stories/freedom-riders

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In 2017...

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Seeking Mavis Beacon released in 2024

Investigates the disappearance and reexamines the legacy of one of the most influential Black [Women] in technology.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18322912

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Edward Leroy Loper Sr. (April 7, 1916 – October 11, 2011) was an African American artist and teacher. He taught painting for almost 70 years.

Artist beginnings
In 1936, during the Great Depression, Loper started working in Delaware for the Works Progress Administration (WPA),

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@the_black_podcast, a Black Goddess/King shared the image below.

[I just saw the middle finger...]

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Painting of Black Woman without a face. Black paint dripping from her hair forming a fist with middle finger raised.

9RB shared the text and image below.

It's "The African Renaissance Monument" in Senegal. Bronze, 60 foot tall statue overlooking the Atlantic Ocean designed by a Senegalese architect. One word......AWESOME!

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One day we'll liv in a world not dominated by d eurocentric perspectiv, where artists like Basquiat r no longer seen as copycats but recognised as individuals drawing on thousands of years of culture & history. One day we will all b abl 2recognise d pain dat he directs us2 in his work &recognise d shame dat we let it happen

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