Hand-colored tintype portrait of three unidentified African American women, c. 1856.
Source: Harvard Library.
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This is incredible.
WHEN I SHOW UP SOMEWHERE AND REALIZE IM THE OLDEST ONE THERE
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Meet: Lester Kern
Lester Kern was a nationally renowned artist and comic illustrator and Milwaukee native who resided in Stone Mountain Georgia. His interest in art developed at around three years of age. This interest was so intense that his parents bought him a small chalk board to divert his attention away from the walls and important papers. This plan worked, and a young artist was born.
Equally at home as a fine artist, cartoonist or commercial illustrator, his first published works appeared at age thirteen.
By sixteen he was employed part-time as a staff cartoonist for a small weekly newspaper. He went on to win several awards locally, and was eventually awarded a full art scholarship to the University of Wisconsin where he received his formal education (BFA).
After several years of working as an director for various magazines and design studios he started a syndicated political cartoons called “Lester’s World” that was circulated to forty-three newspapers nationally, including the Miami Herald, the Toledo Journal. Kern won a host of awards including three 1st place awards through the National Newspaper Association (NNPA) for the Best Editorial Cartoonist. (X)
Lena Horne in 1938 film, The Duke is Tops/The Bronze Venus
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Not a god damn thing.
Obviously the ermine cape needs to be on Uhura
James Van Der Zee’s photographic chronicle of the Harlem Renaissance and African-American life in Harlem during the 1920s/30s (source)
In these photographs, you will not see the common images of black Americans — downtrodden rural or urban citizens. Instead, you will see a people of great pride and fascinating beauty.
thought it was gonna be a quick doodle but I guess not haha
Taraji P. Henson and Mahershala Ali (reuniting in upcoming Hidden Figures) in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
BLACK GARBO | 1930s
Nina Mae McKinney (1912 – 1967) was an American actress who worked internationally during the 1930s and in the postwar period in theater, film and television, after getting her start on Broadway and in Hollywood. Dubbed “The Black Garbo” in Europe because of her striking beauty,McKinney was one of the first African-American film stars in the United States, as well as one of the first African Americans to appear on British television.
He is such an underrated character. He was a cinnamon role and just wanted to help the entire movie. No Hans bullshit, no pressuring her into a relationship, just love.
He gave support, he was patient, he was unconditionally kind, he accepted all the difficulties with child services and all the weird alien visitors with barely a blink. He dove into the ocean to rescue Stitch because Lilo was worried. And through it all, he proved that he was more than willing to do everything in his power to help these girls and make them smile, without any thought of a reward or being “owed” for his friendship.
Even his line at the end, when Nani thanks him for helping her find a job (”That’s okay. You can just date me and we’ll call it even.”), is delivered with a certain amount of humor, and his behavior throughout the rest of the film shows that he would still accept it if she turned him down. Because more than just liking Nani, he RESPECTS her.
David Kawena is the ultimate Disney prince.
Mermaids are meant to be BEAUTIFUL…… Therefore MerMEN are meant to be BREATHTAKING!!!!
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MUA: @jukubabii and @robertosartwork
John the Baptist saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world. He is the one of whom I said, ‘A man is coming after me who ranks ahead of me because he existed before me.’ I did not know him, but the reason why I came baptizing with water was that he might be made known to Israel.” John testified further, saying, “I saw the Spirit come down like a dove from heaven and remain upon him. I did not know him, but the one who sent me to baptize with water told me, ‘On whomever you see the Spirit come down and remain, he is the one who will baptize with the Holy Spirit.’ Now I have seen and testified that he is the Son of God.”
Source: vernegallery.com
the manager i hated from my old IT job just posted this on facebook and i actually physically and in irl shit myself
We take a break from our usual scheduled posting to bring you this. YOOOOOOOOOOOOOO 😂😂😂😂
Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man’s Education (2016)
“How do you learn to be a black man in America? For young black men today, it means coming of age during the presidency of Barack Obama. It means witnessing the deaths of Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Akai Gurley, and too many more. It means celebrating powerful moments of black self-determination for LeBron James, Dave Chappelle, and Frank Ocean.
In Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching, Mychal Denzel Smith chronicles his own personal and political education during these tumultuous years, describing his efforts to come into his own in a world that denied his humanity. Smith unapologetically upends reigning assumptions about black masculinity, rewriting the script for black manhood so that depression and anxiety aren’t considered taboo, and feminism and LGBTQ rights become part of the fight. The questions Smith asks in this book are urgent—for him, for the martyrs and the tokens, and for the Trayvons that could have been and are still waiting.”
by Mychal Denzel Smith
Get it now here
Mychal Denzel Smith is a contributing writer at The Nation, a blogger at TheNation.com, and an Alfred Knobler Fellow at The Nation Institute. He is the author of Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching, published in 2016 by Nation Books. He is also a freelance writer and social commentator. His work on race, politics, social justice, pop culture, hip hop, mental health, feminism, and black male identity has appeared in various publications, including The Guardian, Ebony, theGrio, The Root, The Huffington Post, and GOOD magazine.