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"True, there is silver under/ The veils of the darkness./ But few care to dig in the night/ For the possible treasure of stars" --Gwendolyn Brooks, "Intermission"

[blackonbroadway]

James Earl Jones in FENCES by August Wilson.  Directed by Lloyd Richards.  Photo by William B. Carter, 1985

[cultureunseen]

Father Figure: Exploring Alternate Notions of Black Fatherhood  By photographer Zun Lee http://www.zunlee.com/ https://twitter.com/zunleephoto https://instagram.com/zunleephoto/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/rogueinterventionist https://www.facebook.com/zunleephoto?_rdr=p Support this project and Zun Lee: http://www.ceibafoto.com/goodies/father-figure-the-book/ Acquire prints at [email protected]

[msnbc]

Happy Birthday, Malcolm!

Malcolm X was born on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska – he would’ve turned 90 today. 

(Photo by the AP)

[ikonicgif]

Beyonce attends the ‘China: Through The Looking Glass’ Costume Institute Benefit Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 4, 2015 in New York City

[milas-universe]

Jr. just asked me if I used to play subway surfers when I was a kid and when I told him no he gone say “Why, cuz the app wasn’t free?” Lmao

[milas-universe]

I was like “When I was a kid, we didn’t have iPads and tablets *pause* stop asking me stuff that make me sound old”

[janetdamitajo]

[thechanelmuse]

Muva.

[securelyinsecure]

Jackie Robinson and his family

[shihlun]

Roy DeCarava, Five Men, 1964.

This moment occurred during a memorial service for the children killed in a church in Birmingham, Ala., in 1964. The photograph shows men coming out of the service at a church in Harlem…… [The] men were coming out of the church with faces so serious and so intense that I responded, and the image was made.  (Roy DeCarava)

[otoso]

[black-berries]

[miss-accacia27]

Tina Turner

[blackhistoryalbum]

ELLA | FIRST LADIES OF JAZZ SERIES An awestruck Dizzy Gillespie watching Ella Fitzgerald sing at the Downbeat Club in New York City, 1947. Jazz legend, Milt Jackson in the background to the left. Photo by William P. Gottlieb.

[harlemcollective-deactivated201]

Harlemite: Nora Holt.

Nora Holt was a prominent musical composer of the Harlem Renaissance and  the first African American to receive a Master’s Degree in the United States.

[divalocity]

ELLE Magazine March 2015: Samantha Archibald

[discreet45]

Spike Lee by Ilse Ruppert

[wehadfacesthen]

Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong in the recording studio, 1956

[gregorypecks]

Sam Cooke, 1960.