Tag: blue power
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Penniman figured he met Esquerita in 1951, although musicologists Pierre Monnery and Jay Halsey place the meeting a couple of years later, since “One Mint Julep” wasn’t recorded by the… more ›
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The blow-up of black superheroes has been a long time coming. https://historyofblacksuperheroes.com/ more ›
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Primarily, the film brought me back to an article by Professor Ruha Benjamin titled “Racial fictions, biological facts: Expanding the Sociological Imagination through speculative methods.” in which Benjamin makes the statement that… more ›
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On 27 July 1825, a brig called Espadarte (Swordfish) docked in Rio de Janeiro and unloaded its expensive cargo: 422 Africans forcibly shipped across the Atlantic from Angola. It was… more ›
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Famous criticism of Malcolm X by his fellow civil rights leader Dr Martin Luther King Jr in a 1965 interview was largely falsified, according to a new King biography. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/10/martin-luther-king-jonathan-eig-book-malcolm-x more ›
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All over North America and Europe, universities, businesses and other organisations are investigating their historical connections to slavery. Some of these institutions once owned plantations or enslaved people. https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2023/mar/31/more-than-money-the-logic-of-slavery-reparations more ›
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I didn’t grow up with much art in my house, but one of things I do remember was a piece featuring five Black women in African print fabrics with different… more ›
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In 2019, Brooklyn-based multimedia artist Hank Willis Thomas was awarded a commission to create a sculpture celebrating the civil-rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. https://quillette.com/2023/01/27/boring-art-impotent-politics/ more ›
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Over the past 12 years, Earl has collaborated with the likes of Tyler, The Creator (his fellow Odd Future member), Frank Ocean, Mac Miller, Flying Lotus, and countless other icons of hip-hop’s new… more ›