LADIJONES

My Lens on Black |Art| Narratives

[itsjessegurl]

I was watching the Stonewall Uprising documentary and the name Marsha P. Johnson was not mentioned once considering she was a leader of the 1969 Stonewall Riots. So I felt like posting these Polaroids of her taken by Andy Warhol to show remembrance of her as the significant trailblazer that she was in making the Stonewall Riots happen. It’ll be 46 years since the riots on June the 28th and 45 years since the first gay pride march took place in New York City as a result of the Stonewall Riots. Thank you Marsha. RIP. 

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[harlemcollective-deactivated201]

Black Panther Community Center Harlem, 1968. 

[nprfreshair]

Photo break: Lost photos of Frida Kahlo via Bust

[npr]

Powerful photos of this powerful artist. -Emily

[artcomesfirst]

[colachampagnedad]

To Pimp A Butterfly

[ubleproject]

“Prove it on me!” From the HBO film Bessie, by Dee Rees, coming May 16, 2015.

[karawalker]

Kara Walker named Wall Street Journal Magazine’s 2014 Innovator Award winner for Art

[soul-flow-er]

mama. 

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-plots to become her mentee-

[brohogany]

#webeenhere #cataclysm 

[ladijones-blog]

The magic of the Black Groove!

[theblackregalia]

Charlamagne tries to compare D’Jango to Nat Turner.. Chris Rock briefs Charlamagne on who Nat Turner was.

[behavingwhileblack]

Chris Rock dropping serious knowledge on this fool…

[ladijones-blog]

Chris was like, don't confuse your shitty contemporary pop-culture with revolutionary Black history. D'jango is the opposite of radical. Nat Turner defines liberation.

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Richard Pryor, 1940 - 2005. RIP. 

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Still

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[manufactoriel]

The athlete -James, (1939-1940) by William H.Johnson

[thecolorblockcurator]

India Oaxaceña, Ramón Cano Manilla

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brenda skyes in black gunn (1972)

[shannondamani]

slay me to the moon

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[ladijones-blog]

An Interview with Titus Kaphar

As the millennial generation is charged with shifting the country’s policing practices and devaluation of Black humanity, artist Titus Kaphar and The Jerome Project shifts our proximity to those impacted by our criminal justice system, by making them visible and human rather than mere statistics of mass incarceration and criminalization. This is a high time to interrogate the (re)memory of our American experience and collective relationship to its criminal justice system.

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Photo Credit, Terrence Jennings

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