Today's Audiobook and Crochet Selection is:

A Black Feminist reviews ebooks & audiobooks while crocheting

[forafricans]

A man plays the kora. Goree Island, Senegal. ©Chika Okoli

[hoodoogardens]

“Medium”, by Reynier Llanes. Oil on canvas

[hoodoogardens]

ART SHAY, CHICAGO, IL, AUGUST 5, 1969. Chicago, Art Shay. Black Panther member pointing to a bullet-riddled door leading to the local headquarters of the Black Panther Party. Chapters nationwide experienced constant raids and trumped-up charges by local law enforcement agencies and the FBI.

[antonio-m]

“Portrait of a Black Man” (attributed to Théodore Géricault, around 1822-1823 / Musée Denon, Chalon-sur-Saône)

[swanlake1998]

virginia johnson performing as giselle in creole giselle // mad scene

[si-african-american-history]

Account of hires of enslaved persons belonging to Apphia Rouzzee for 1812, 1812-1813, Smithsonian: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Size: L x W: 9 ¾ x 15 ¾ in. (24.8 x 40 cm) Medium: ink on paper

https://nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2011.104.23

[laileanah]

#johnbrown #sambosmistakes #johnbrownracist

The question often comes if John Brown actually saw Black folks as equal to white folks.

The answer is no.

He did not.

Blaming Black folks for their own oppression and suggesting that we waste our time and money which is why we are not further ahead is a common white supremacist talking point today.

I believe that John Brown saw slavery as evil and Black folks as inferior human beings.

He also was interested in being a Christian Martyr.

He was a racist🤷🏾‍♀️

I appreciate that the raid on #Harper'sFerry kicked off the #CivilWar but that doesn't excuse this story.

[lionofchaeronea]

Hogon cup (Ogo banya) of the Dogon people, Mali, used in the enthronement of a Hogon (political/spiritual leader).  Artist unknown; between 1720 and 1780.  Now in the Musée du quai Branly, Paris.  Photo credit: Myrabella/Wikimedia Commons.

[lionofchaeronea]

Yoruba wooden sculpture of Queen Victoria, modeled after an official photograph taken in 1887.  Artist unknown; late 19th or early 20th century.  Now in the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne, Germany.

[lionofchaeronea]

Ivory Yoruba divination tapper (iroke ifa), from present-day Owo, Ondo State, Nigeria.  Artist unknown; probably 18th century.  Now in the Brooklyn Museum.  

[lionofchaeronea]

Terracotta vessel of the Akan peoples, Ghana, showing a female figure on a gourd with musical instruments and snakes.  The vessel is thought to have been made for the grave of a chief or paramount chief.  Artist unknown; late 19th or early 20th century.  Now in the National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C.  Photo credit: Cliff/Wikimedia Commons.

[lionofchaeronea]

Ivory salt cellar of the Edo people, Kingdom of Benin (in present-day Nigeria), in the Bini-Portuguese style.  The figures depicted are stylized Portuguese, and the salt cellar was likely made for export to Europe.  Artist unknown; 16th century.  Now in the National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C.  Photo credit: cliff1066/Wikimedia Commons.

[lionofchaeronea]

Gold pendant, believed to come from the Baule (Baoulé) people of the Guinea Coast, present-day Côte d'Ivoire.  Artist unknown; 20th century.  Now in the Cleveland Museum of Art.

[lionofchaeronea]

Painted wood ikenga statuette of the Igbo people, Awka region, south-east Nigeria.  Artist unknown; 19th century.  Now in the Musée du quai Branly, Paris.

[lionofchaeronea]

Otobo (hippopotamus) masks of the Kalabari people, Nigeria.  Now in the British Museum.

[lionofchaeronea]

Drum with two faces, of the Shira-Panu people, Gabon.  Artist unknown; 20th century.  Now in the De Young Museum, San Francisco.

[lionofchaeronea]

Figure of a female devotee of the Yoruba thunder deity Shango, holding the god’s characteristic symbol, the oshe shango (double-headed axe).  Artist unknown; 19th century.  Now in the Brooklyn Museum.  Photo credit: Brooklyn Museum.