Rhythmic Style

play yuh drum likkle bwai! dance to di beat! Let di birds remin' yuh seh di riddim is fareva swweeettt!!

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Tracy Porter

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Junya Watanabe SS26

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Athiec Geng by Carlijn Jacobs for D Repubblica Magazine April 2025

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by Louise Pilgaard

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by Xiaolong Wong

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Fifi Junubia by Aleksander Salski for Vogue Portugal April 2026

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by Thomas Quine

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Ndeye Touty Sakho by Sabine Villiard for Vogue Greece March 2026

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AZ Factory x Thebe Magugu Campaign (2022) Shot by Anne Gryzcka

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Black Venus , Margaret Taylor Burroughs, 1957

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Johnnie Lacy, disability rights advocate, in 1977

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Augusta Fells Savage by Erin K. Robinson

Augusta Fells Savage was a talented sculptor who blazed a trail as a pioneering working artist. Her activism and art helped mold and inspire the careers of future artists… A huge 16-foot-tall harp, commissioned in 1939 for the New York World’s Fair, is considered Augusta’s best-known work. Inspired by the poem “Lift Every Voice and Sing” by James Weldon Johnson, its strings are a line of singing children, and the sculpture symbolizes the musical gifts of black people. 

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Fannie Lou Hamer by  Erin K. Robinson

 (1914-1977) Civil Rights Leader

Fannie Lou Hamer, a Mississippi sharecropper, changed this nation's perspective on democracy. She worked for political, social, and economic equality for herself and all black Americans. She fought to integrate the national Democratic Party and became one of the first Black delegates to a presidential convention.

She was also the youngest among 20 children and started field-work when she was only six years old.

She had a walking disability because of polio and had an eye blood clot after she was severely beaten by the police in a Mississippi jail when she was arrested, along with five other people, for trying to register to vote.

Most of her life she worked as a sharecropper or cotton picking where she also met her husband.

She was fired as a sharecropper when she tried to register to vote and spearhead voting drives as a co-founder of the Mississippi Freedom Society. 

She underwent surgery to remove a uterine tumour and woke up to find she had been given a hysterectomy without her consent.

“If I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.”

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Billie Holiday - The Fragile Bloom That Sang of Shadows by Mika Orr

While Billie Holiday's official cause of death was pulmonary edema and heart failure caused by cirrhosis of the liver, many historians and biographers argue she was effectively "driven to death" or "murdered" by the state through relentless harassment by federal agents.

The controversy surrounding her death on July 17, 1959, stems from the actions of Harry Anslinger, the commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, who had targeted her for years due to her performances of the anti-lynching song “Strange Fruit.”