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Welcome to my world of ~ Beauty ~ Unexpected Laughter ~ Muzic ~ Words of Wisdom ~ Random Facts ~ Art ~ So if you like, stay a while. ~gb~

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“My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart.”

— Maya Angelou

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Debbie Harry outtake from the 1976 Photoshoot for Blondie's self-titled debut album, photographed by Shig Ikeda.

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James Wilby and Hugh Grant in a promo for the movie "Maurice", dir. by James Ivory after the novel by the same name by E.M. Forster.

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Fall in love with your life. Wake up early, buy your favorite coffee, go for walks. Eat good food. Wear what makes you feel confident and listen to your favorite music. Purposefully create these small moments that make you fall in love with your life.

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Poet Charles Henri Ford (left) with partner painter Pavel Tchelitchew photographed by Cecil Beaton.

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Overdress is a myth invented by people who never been fabulous.

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n 1931, in Scottsboro, Alabama, nine Black teenagers were pulled off a freight train. Two white women accused them of rape. No evidence. All-white jury. Eight sentenced to death. One, 13-year-old Roy Wright, got life because he was a child. The case became international news. But inside Kilby Prison, the boys were alone. Except for one woman: Jane Newton, 57, a white seamstress from Birmingham. She read about it in the paper and took a bus. She wasn’t a lawyer. She wasn’t an activist. She just sat in the visitors’ room every Tuesday. She brought fried chicken, cornbread, and pencils. She taught them to write their names. Most were illiterate. The guards called her “N!gger Lover.” She said: “I’m a Christian. You boys write your mothers!” She mailed the letters herself. When Olen Montgomery went blind from prison beatings, she read to him. When Andy Wright turned 18 in a cell, she baked him a cake and sang through the glass. The Supreme Court overturned the convictions twice. It took 6 years, 4 trials. Four boys were finally freed. Four served decades. One, Haywood Patterson, escaped in 1948 and died in a bar fight. Jane died in 1946. She left no family. The boys chipped in for her tombstone. It says: “She came when no one else did.” In 2013, Alabama posthumously pardoned the Scottsboro Boys. Olen Montgomery, 95, the last survivor, was asked if he was angry. He said: “No. Miss Jane taught me to write my name. That’s how I signed the pardon. That’s enough. #alabamarapnews🚀

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Lord, I’m thanking You before it even happens.

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fvcking love this brother

When the pigs come for you, so you bring pigs to them. 🐷🚔

'Just dropping off backup.' 😂

Mississippi: where police brutality meets bacon brutality. 🥓

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The first photo is from 1956. It shows a Black woman watching members of the Ku Klux Klan (a terrorist, racist, far-right organization focused on white supremacy) walking along a sidewalk in Montgomery, Alabama (USA). I couldn't find the photo's author, but most sources state that it was taken in 1956.

The second photo shows members of the Patriot Front group (a white supremacist and nationalist group, formed in 2017, that openly advocates what they call "American Fascism") traveling on the subway during the 250th anniversary of the U.S. independence in Washington D.C., while a Black woman watches them. The photo is by photographer Cheney Orr, taken on July 4, 2026, 70 years after the first photo.

Via Jurunense

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Nyanchol for Nu Icons Magazine Issue 41

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"What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelly to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sounds of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciations of tyrants, brass fronted impudence; your shouts of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanksgivings, with all your religious parade, and solemnity, are, to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy—a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody, than are the people of these United States, at this very hour."

-Frederick Douglass

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Marlon Brando photographed by Cecil Beaton, 1947.