[amandla]

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Amalia Vairelli by Giovanni Gastel.

1980s

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Queen Latifah, Jill Scott, & Erykah Badu on what they love about performing.

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Janet, '04

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She is unique.

You either like her or you don’t.

If you don’t, you won’t.

If you do — wheee-ouuu-eu!

You do!

Langston Hughes on Nina Simone

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By Stacey Gillian Abe

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Tina Turner captured by Peter Lindbergh in Los Angeles.

[julytrees]

Love Jones (1997) dir. Theodore Witcher

[drunkwhenimadethis]

From 'A Breath of Life' by Clarice Lispector

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Floetry for NPR Music’s Tiny Desk. Photo by Kara Frame.

[julytrees]

Barkley L. Hendricks, Ms. Johnson (Estelle), 1972

[julytrees]

Novelist Alice Walker photographed at home by Ronald L. Freeman, ca. 1997.

[ms-inreallife]

My mom and aunt posing in our garden, 1996

[grrl-beetle]

Issey Miyake

[dozydawn]

Boston, Massachusetts, 1972. Photographed by Nick Dewolf.

[smsomah]

Merina; Madagascar, 1900-1908. Maurice Teissonnière

[throwbackposts]

Mary J. Blige on Yo! MTV Raps