existing better

ming / gentlewoman / "curator" / poet

[daishabear]

Suly Suly!

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(via Regina by Gabriel Moses | AnOther)

[djbabybeatman]

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[achillesinhighheels]

Days in District 6 by Gabriel Moses

[dreams-in-blk]

Young Calypso Cabaret Performer Maya Angelou at 6ft tall towering over her group Calypso Heat Wave.

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Wayne Thiebaud (American, b. 1920) - Freeway Exit, 1986

oil on canvas

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Wayne Thiebaud

The USA, b. 1920

City Downgrade, 2001

Oil on canvas 40 x 29½ in. | 101.6 x 74.9 cm.

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Wayne Thiebaud    

B. 1920, USA.

Hotel Corner, 1979, 1998 

Etching with drypoint, on wove paper 19 ½ x 16 in | 49.5 x 40.6 cm

[garadinervi]

June Jordan, July 9, 1936 / 2021

«All of my life I have been a poet: Somebody moving in the world by means of words: Somebody working to tell the truth, always: Somebody hoping to change, to transform, inertia and injustice, wherever I encounter these things, into equitable and loving circumstances for everyone to share. My means to these desired ends is the word, is poetry.» – June Jordan, for: Kathy Engel: March 18, 1978

[oumaimas]

west coast episode by june jordan/ peaches by oumaima/ the enchanted forest by marc chagall/ salman toor

[thelonguepuree]

Truly astounding photograph

(front row from left) Nana Maynard, Ntozake Shange, Louise Meriwether

(back row from left) Vertamae Smart-Grosvenor, Alice Walker, Audrey Edwards, Toni Morrison and June Jordan

Photo of Bessie Smith in the background

The Sisterhood Members, 1977, Alice Walker papers

[garadinervi]

On This Juneteenth, the Oldest Known Celebration of the End of Slavery, We Celebrate the Legacy of Activist and Poet June Jordan, Democracy Now!, June 19, 2002. Guests: Alice Walker, Laura Flanders, Angela Davis, and Junichi Semitsu (Internet Archive here)

(image: June Jordan. June Jordan Papers, Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. On the way of Black Women Radicals]

[blackqueernotables]

A Place of Rage (1991)

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Adut Akech by Drew Vickers for Times Style Magazine - August 2021

[itswadestore]

By Sanlé Sory, Vintage Burkina, circa 1970. @studio_voltaphoto

© wä dé

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Malick Sidibé, Portrait de Miss Kanté Sira, 1965