The Luminal Theater

a nomadic cinema for Black communities in the US and beyond  -- website: http://luminaltheater.org

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Laurence Fishburne (Playboy, 1994)

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SENEGAL. Dakar. ca. 1950-70. Portrait in the Studio ‘African Photo’.

© Mama Casset

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Nafi's Father (2019) dir. Mamadou Dia

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Chandra Wilson, Elise Neal, Bruklin Harris, Law & Order, 1992

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Grant Johnson, Bass Reeves,Bynum Colbert, Ike Rogers, Rufus Cannon,Lee Thompson. The men were mixed with black and Indian. One had white , black and Indian. why it's important? It was important them. Important to history. The article August 30,1907

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1970s Posner cosmetics ad

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1972, Brenda Sykes & Jim Brown in “Black Gunn”

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Black on Black Love.

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I don’t know where this came from but I NEEDED it

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Image ID: blue text on a cream background which reads “Nine types of rest. 1) time away 2) permission to not be helpful 3) something “unproductive” 4) connection to art and nature 5) solitude to recharge 6) a break from responsibility 7) stillness to decompress 8) safe space 9) alone time at home”. End ID.

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Misread “decompress” as “decompose” and didn’t notice anything wrong at first. Like, yeah, that checks out, it’s ROTTING TIME.

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Marpessa Dawn and Eric Vander photographed by Loomis Dean (1960).

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Natalie Desselle & Halle Berry in “B.A.P.S.” (1997).

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James Dean hanging out with Eartha Kitt, New York City, 1954

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Nicole Beharie has the prettiest brown eyes

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Soul II Soul ‎– Club Classics Vol. One (1989)

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On June 15th & 16th at 5pm, join us for GRANDMASTERS, a two-day multimedia exhibit showing how Black martial artists harnessed the sport for community empowerment and creativity, and the impact these disciplines continue to have on Black communities and culture.

Go to http://bit.ly/LT-Grandmasters for tix and more info for this Columbia, SC event.

GRANDMASTERS is presented by The Luminal Theater, 701 Center for Contemporary Art, Speller Street Films, and Black Kung Fu Cinema

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White women are the reason the Confederacy is looked at all romantic