Bit by bit we go a step further,

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Claudia Jones (1915-1964), photo via http://www.socialistworker.co.uk

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George Padmore (1903-1959)

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Ceremonie Danthor de Mambo Tina, Ceremonie chagne...

Video and above caption by youtube user haiti220.

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Kuba yet belt, 20th century, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Made from leather, cotton, shells, glass beads, brass, twine, & pigments.

(via the Minneapolis Institute of Arts)

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by Ghada Amer and Reza Farkhondeh (via Cheim & Read)

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But we do not seek to create communities where, in place of white rulers, black rulers control the lives of black masses and where black money goes into a few black pockets: we want to see it go into the communal pocket. The society we seek to build among black people is not an oppressive capitalist society – for capitalism by its very nature cannot create structures free from exploitation. We are fighting for the redistribution of wealth and for the end of private property inside the United States.

Stokely Carmichael, speech at the OLAS Conference, 1967

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Kilwa pot sherds, from Kilwa Kisiwani, Tanzania, c. A.D. 1000-1500 (via The British Museum)

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Betty Adewole via Models 1 agency (photo by Pierre Debusschere)

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Fulani textile tunic, 20th century, Niger (Bororo, Wodaabe) (via the Metropolitan Museum of Art)

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Linguist Staff (Oykeame), 19th–20th century, Ghana; Akan, Asante (via the Metropolitan Museum of Art)

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Egyptian steatite seal, 1567-525 B.C. (via the Minneapolis Institute of Arts)

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'The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution' by C.L.R. James.