BLACK EXCELLENCE SERIES

⚫BLACK EXCELLENCE (B.E.)⚫  BLACK EXCELLENCE aims to acknowledge the beauty and strength of the African descendants throughout Modern History affected by the African diaspora due to apathetic Imperial greed while highlighting Africa’s vibrancy and fullness of life. ●--------•●○•----•○●•-------● Created by: Romeiro Davis & Victoria Ansah ●--------•●○•----•○●•-------●

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            EXCELLENCE PRESENTS: FRESH FRUIT 

" If you eat better, you look better. If you look better, you feel better." 

"Growing up in Roxbury - the heart of Boston - I was surrounded by what people would call a food desert. The only stores readily available and cheap was fast food such as McDonalds, Crown Fried Chicken and  Chinese food. This is the energy we ran on. People don't always think about it but there's a correlation to our mental health and the foods we eat." - Hakim Hill 💫

▪︎Model: @msrainey  ▪︎Photographer: @kimohill  ▪︎Production co: @blackexcellence_llc <-- FOLLOW OUR IG 

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BLACK EXCELLENCE PRESENTS: FRESH FRUIT 

"These photos showcase the feeling of eating better. The bright colors and vibrancy are the vibrations of the mind and body ingesting nature's candy. The frame is the picture of royalty. Sometimes I wonder what we would look and act - how our kids would look and act - if we were given healthy foods on a regular basis."- Hakim Hill 💫  ▪︎Model: @king_j.bae 

▪︎Photographer: @kimohill 

▪︎Production co: @blackexcellence_llc <-- Give Our IG a Follow. :) 

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BLACK EXCELLENCE PRESENTS: The GODDESS & Her QUEENDOM 

●|| They see me. Radiating gold from my skin to land. They see me. Defying odds as my hair does gravity. They see me And the offspring I bear. Truth be told, I even beget theirs. I bear the finest fruit! The greedy, They see me. They want me, Sadly - Romeiro HD ||● 

Black Excellence showcasing images the uplift, encourage, & inspire people of color to take pride & embrace their true self. For more Afrocentric content following us on tumblr & IG: @blackexcellence_llc 💫 ▪︎The Goddess: @justclassic_bren ▪︎Production co: @blackexcellence_llc ▪︎Photographer, costume, & set: @divine_creativity

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            Black Excellence Presents: BLACK L♡VE 

My Black is Beautiful From the color of my skin, to the texture of my hair, to the length of my strands, to the breadth of my smile.

We love telling stories & capturing images that uplift, engage, & inspire our people. Let us tell your story & showcase your Excellence! Just follow us on instagram @blackexcellence_llc  & shoot us a message. We'll make it happen!

•Featuring: @just_quia + @jrsaucer

•Photographer: @kimohill

•Production co/studio: @blackexcellence_llc

•Courtesy of: @hotandcoolcafe 

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BLACK EXCELLENCE PRESENTS: SELF PORTRAIT .

“Growing into the worlds above us, realizing the higher realms of consciousness within us, requires that we outgrow the worlds beneath us.” – Guy Finley FOLLOW BLACK EXCELLENCE: ▪︎Portrait of: @we_unavailable ▪︎Photographer: @kimohill ▪︎MUA: @divine_creativity ▪︎Production co: @blackexcellence_llc

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BLACK EXCELLENCE PRESENTS: MELANIN ART.

“An artist must be immersed in life without being submerged in it. An artist must have enough solitude and enough connection. “It takes practice, and the conscious building of daily ritual, but it is possible." - Author Julia Cameron 

▪︎Melanin Art: @halfmoonbay.wav ▪︎Photographer: @kimohill ▪︎MUA: @divine_creativity ▪︎Production co: @blackexcellence_llc #blackhistory #losangeles #problack #contemporary #Africa #photoshoot #tribal #melanin #melaninart #blackexcellence  #production #art #artgallery #artist #photography #blackart #blackartists #films #blackbeauty #music #soundcloud #blackculture #afropunk #shortfilm #filmmaking #directing  #director #art design #quarantine #creativephotography

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BLACK EXCELLENCE PRESENTS: MELANIN ART

Black Excellence showcasing images that uplift, encourage, & inspire people of color to take pride & embrace their true self.

▪︎Melanin Art: @halfmoonbay.wav ▪︎Photographer: @kimohill ▪︎MUA: @divine_creativity ▪︎Production co: @blackexcellence_llc

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BLACK EXCELLENCE PRESENTS: MELANIN ART

Black Excellence showcasing images that uplift, encourage, & inspire people of color to take pride & embrace their true self.  ▪︎Melanin Art: @halfmoonbay.wav ▪︎Photographer: @kimohill ▪︎MUA: @divine_creativity ▪︎Production co: @blackexcellence_llc

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DESCENDANTS OF AFRI  👑  AFRO AWAKENING 

"My mom taught self love, [and] as I got older I realized that having  the hair I had was a blessing." -De'aja Plummer

P Model: @yoodeaja 

Produced: @_romeiro_ , @divine_creativity & @thamermaid 

Directed: @_romeiro_ & @divine_creativity 

Wardrobe: @divine_creativity

Photographer: John Portis

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            ● THE AMERICAN DREAM / COLORISM ●

...because we live in the society we live in people automatically viewed my brother more worthy than I was because he and our father are so fair skinned... - Justin C. Rauls 

col·or·ism • prejudice or discrimination against individuals with a dark skin tone, typically among people of the same ethnic or racial group.  

Colorism within the black community has been a serious emotional and psychological battle  

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DESCENDANTS OF AFRI  👑  AFRO AWAKENING 

"To become the person I am today, I have had to find total acceptance in God. If I TRULY believe that The Most High makes no mistakes, then I MUST believe that he made me perfectly perfected" - Justin Rauls

👑 Model: Justin Rauls 

👑 Photographer: John Portis 

👑 Directed:@_romeiro_ @divine_creativity

👑 Wardrobe:@divine_creativity

👑 Produced: @_romeiro_ @divine_creativity @thamermaid 

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                               Black Excellence Series

I am a man of passion, of conviction, of faith. I am a man of love, of laughter and of anger. I am a man of strength, who despairs, who weeps. I am a man enraged by mans inhumanity to man and perplexed by He who seems unable to stop the madness. I feel, touch, smell, taste and I see the good in man. In my deepest despair, somehow I know that all will be right, for I am an eternal optimist. I am compelled to hope for the best in humanity. I am all these things and more...for I am man. - Joe Fazio 

"I AM A MAN" a sign carried by 1,300 striking African American sanitation workers in Memphis Tennessee from February 12 – April 16, 1968. Prompted by the wrongful deaths of two coworkers from faulty equipment, the strikers marched to protest low wages and unsafe working conditions. They took up the slogan "I Am a Man" as a variant on the first line of Ralph Ellison's prologue to Invisible Man, "I am an invisible man." By deleting the word "invisible," the Memphis strikers asserted their presence, making themselves visible in standing up for their rights. Martin Luther King Jr. traveled to Memphis to address the striking workers; the next day, he was assassinated. 

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                                   Black Excellence Series                AFROCENTRIC pays ode to Fannie Lou Hamer

June 1963, returning from a workshop in South Carolina, Mrs. Hamer and other activists were arrested for sitting at a “Whites Only” lunch counter. In jail, police and African American inamtes who were forced to use Black Jack weapons took turns beating Mrs. Hamer and her colleagues. Fannie received damage to her eyes, legs and kidneys from this event. 

Fannie Lou Hamer’s testimony about racist brutality at the 1964 Democratic National Convention I was carried out of that cell into another cell where they had two Negro prisoners. The State Highway Patrolmen ordered the first Negro to take the blackjack. The first Negro prisoner ordered me, by orders from the State Highway Patrolman, for me to lay down on a bunk bed on my face. And I laid on my face, the first Negro began to beat me. And I was beat by the first Negro until he was exhausted. I was holding my hands behind me at that time on my left side, because I suffered from polio when I was six years old. After the first Negro had beat until he was exhausted, the State Highway Patrolman ordered the second Negro to take the blackjack. The second Negro began to beat and I began to work my feet, and the State Highway Patrolman ordered the first Negro who had beat to sit on my feet – to keep me from working my feet. I began to scream and one white man got up and began to beat me in my head and tell me to hush. One white man—my dress had worked up high—he walked over and pulled my dress. I pulled my dress down and he pulled my dress back up. I was in jail when Medgar Evers was murdered. All of this is on account of we want to register, to become first-class citizens. And if the Freedom Democratic Party is not seated now, I question America. Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, where we have to sleep with our telephones off of the hooks because our lives be threatened daily, because we want to live as decent human beings, in America? Thank you. - Fannie Lou Hamer Model: @tey_is_texastrill Photographer: @divine_creativity Created by: @_romeiro_ @divine_creativity@thamermaid 

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                                  Black Excellence Series                  AFROCENTRIC pays ode to James Baldwin

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.” - James Baldwin

Model: @_romeiro_ Photographer: @divine_creativity Created by: @_romeiro_ @divine_creativity @thamermaid 

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         AFROCENTRIC pays ode to Kathleen Cleaver:                    Her Strength, Her Determination

"There is a direct relationship between our struggles thats on the ground, that's against the forces of oppression, aggression and murder that are racists, fascists, imperialist beasts!" -Kathleen Cleaver Model: @thamermaid Photographer: @divine_creativity Created by: @_romeiro_  @divine_creativity  @thamermaid 

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           AFROCENTRIC pays ode to Kathleen Cleaver:                                         Her Strength, Her Determination

"People have been murdered for less than what the Black Panthers did, so the question was for us: 'Do you want to live on your knees or die on your feet?" - Kathleen Cleaver •Model: @thamermaid •Photographer: @divine_creativity •Created by: @_romeiro_ @thamermaid & @divine_creativity  

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      AFROCENTRIC pays ode to The Black Panther Party:                                   Their Knowledge, Their Power.

The Black Panther Party wanted to see African-American communities strive and grow. And with that in mind they took matters in their own hands by feeding and protecting their people!

•Model: Kevin Ezeh, @teller2cme, @ebonylanet •Photographer: @divine_creativity •Created by: @_romeiro_ , @thamermaid & @divine_creativity