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WEB DuBois hand-drawn infographics on Georgia’s Black population. More.

My salsa superhero. @wearemitu-blog

All the feels. All the chills. The deep power of objects at the new African American Museum in DC.

#black #afro #history #africanamerican #BLM #museum #art #culture

Building’s membership book. Phife, Clark Kent, Q-Tip on one page alone.

Stretch Armstrong: “Anytime a new club opened that was the place to be, it was completely normal for me to go there three, four nights of the week. For a lot of us who were not just in the scene, but kind of connected to the scene, a club just became like everyone’s living room.”

More here.

#hiphop #oldnewyork #vintageclubland #90s

La Cena (1991), Belkis Ayón.

The Abakuá society “arrived in the western port cities of Cuba in the early 19th century, carried by enslaved Africans from the Cross River region of southeastern Nigeria. A brief synopsis of the founding myth of Abakuá begins with Sikán, a princess who inadvertently trapped a fish in a container she used to draw water from the river. The unexpected loud bellowing of the fish was the mystical “voice” of Abakuá, and Sikán was the first to hear it. Because women were not permitted this sacred knowledge, the local diviner swore Sikán to secrecy. Sikán, however, revealed her secret to her fiancé, and because of her indiscretion she was condemned to die.”

A retrospective of the late AfroCuban printmaker opens at the Fowler Museum in LA Oct 2.

The Shape of Your Path, Cruzando series, Raul Gonzalez III

#art #border #mexilandia #immigration

Melanie González, Ghetto Mary Last Supper.

#art #photography #dominican #caribbean #uptown

“It was on my master’s course at the University of Westminster that I met the director of a prominent Savile Row tailor, who told me the firm ceremoniously shredded the bespoke patterns of customers when they died. As the body no longer existed, he explained, it was pointless to archive the patterns.”

Hormazd Narielwalla on the source of his current project.

#art #migration #london #fashion #Brexit #india #pattern

Chivos locos.

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jamel shabazz, girl in cazal 616s. new york city. 1980s.

Squirtle, Mayan stylee. Más Pokemayans here.

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Because your summer is a never-ending slog and all your beach reads have disappointed you, we thought you’d want to peruse these two interviews from our Spring issue. Once available only to subscribers, they’re now available to everyone, everywhere. No need to thank us. (Unless you want to subscribe.)In the Art of Nonfiction No. 9, Luc... Read More »

Feast your eyes!

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That mug-shot pic of Luc Sante is everything.

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#ShutDownAdelanto week of action is coming up!!

Join us, the Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice, and CIVIC for our week of action to denounce the mistreatment and abuse of detainees at the Adelanto Detention Facility! This year marks the 5th year anniversary of inadequate healthcare, overuse of solitary confinement, mistreatment, deaths of detainees, and the immoral practice of profiting from detaining immigrants.

Please join us and RSVP to the event: bit.ly/adelantoart

For the Saturday rally, please RSVP at: bit.ly/adelantobus