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THE HARDER THEY FALL | Official Teaser | Netflix

When outlaw Nat Love (Jonathan Majors) discovers that his enemy Rufus Buck (Idris Elba) is being released from prison he rounds up his gang to track Rufus down and seek revenge. Those riding with him in this assured, righteously new school Western include his former love Stagecoach Mary (Zazie Beetz), his right and left hand men — hot-tempered Bill Pickett (Edi Gathegi) and fast drawing Jim Beckwourth (R.J. Cyler)—and a surprising adversary-turned-ally. 

Rufus Buck has his own fearsome crew, including “Treacherous” Trudy Smith (Regina King) and Cherokee Bill (LaKeith Stanfield), and they are not a group that knows how to lose. 

Directed by Jeymes Samuel, written by Samuel and Boaz Yakin, produced by Shawn Carter, James Lassiter, Lawrence Bender and Jeymes Samuel, and featuring a red hot soundtrack and a stunning all-star cast, including Jonathan Majors, Zazie Beetz, Delroy Lindo, LaKeith Stanfield, Danielle Deadwyler, Edi Gathegi, R.J. Cyler, Damon Wayans Jr., Deon Cole with Regina King and Idris Elba revenge has never been served colder.

This looks good! 🐎

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Is this the updated one to the one that had Erykah Badu, Michael K Williams and Jesse Williams

[blackinperiodfilms]

It seems like a spiritual successor. The director Jeymes Samuel also wrote & directed They Die By Dawn. 

[peropoetry]

ain’t shit about this beautiful.

My apology I did not have time to shave my legs before I came here You see, this morning I was in that march down Roselawn Protesting for my former middle school To get books form the last millennium Or walls without mold Or doors on their bathroom stalls Or food Last night I was busy too So my armpits grew out a bit I was making signs for the next unarmed black or Latino body between the ages of 16-25 You’ll see on the news Not that one, the other one No, no the other one Yeah, that one The one that looking like your little sister Or that one cousin My mustache is also a little thick tonight And I’ve honestly ran out of fucks to give The revolution will not be done up in Revlon I used all my concealer to hide the queer boys bruises I offered all my earring as pins to the hajabi who’s scarf was snatched off in public I did paint my nails a while ago But it’s all chipped now I was scrubbing too hard to get the blood off the leaves To get the bleach off her skin To get the graffiti off the Synagogue And it never occurred to me to repaint them Just like all those bombed schools in Bagdad It never occurred to US to repair them I suppose there is always something else going on Maybe….

I’ll go get my hair done.

-pero.

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Black Girl, Call Home (2021)

From spoken word poet Jasmine Mans comes an unforgettable poetry collection about race, feminism, and queer identity.

With echoes of Gwendolyn Brooks and Sonia Sanchez, Mans writes to call herself—and us—home. Each poem explores what it means to be a daughter of Newark, and America—and the painful, joyous path to adulthood as a young, queer Black woman.

Black Girl, Call Home

is a love letter to the wandering Black girl and a vital companion to any woman on a journey to find truth, belonging, and healing.

by Jasmine Mans  (Author)

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Jasmine Mans is a Black American poet, artist from Newark, New Jersey. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin Madison, with a B.A. in African American Studies. Her debut collection of poetry, Chalk Outlines of Snow Angels, was published in 2012. Mans is the resident poet at the Newark Public Library. She was a member of The Strivers Row Collective.

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The African Lookbook: A Visual History of 100 Years of African Women (2021)

Most of us grew up with images of African women that were purely anthropological–bright displays of exotica where the deeper personhood seemed tucked away. Or they were chronicles of war and poverty–“poverty porn.” But now, curator Catherine E. McKinley draws on her extensive collection of historical and contemporary photos to present a visual history spanning a hundred-year arc (1870–1970) of what is among the earliest photography on the continent. These images tell a different story of African women: how deeply cosmopolitan and modern they are in their style; how they were able to reclaim the tools of the colonial oppression that threatened their selfhood and livelihoods.

Featuring works by celebrated African masters, African studios of local legend, and anonymous artists, The African Lookbook captures the dignity, playfulness, austerity, grandeur, and fantasy-making of African women across centuries. McKinley also features photos by Europeans–most starkly, striking nudes–revealing the relationships between white men and the Black female sitters where, at best, a grave power imbalance lies. It’s a bittersweet truth that when there is exploitation there can also be profound resistance expressed in unexpected ways–even if it’s only in gazing back. These photos tell the story of how the sewing machine and the camera became powerful tools for women’s self-expression, revealing a truly glorious display of everyday beauty.

by Catherine E. McKinley

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Catherine E. McKinley is a curator and writer whose books include the critically acclaimed Indigo, a journey along the ancient indigo trade routes in West Africa, and The Book of Sarahs, a memoir about growing up Black and Jewish in the 1960s–80s. She’s taught creative nonfiction writing at Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University. The McKinley Collection, featured here, is a personal archive representing African photographies from 1870 to the present. She lives in New York City.

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Show and Tell, Deathlok Annual #1  (1992)

“Just because something is “good” doesn’t make it above criticism”

Writer: Dwayne McDuffie, art: Denys Cowan

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Photographs taken in Washington D.C. by Darrell C. Crain Jr. between (1963-1968). The photographs are part of the DC Public Library Digital Collection.

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Quilters. Photographs by Henry Groskinsky (1971)

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here is a twitter thread and constantly updating, currently active google doc that contains the gofundmes, paypals, cashapps, etc of victims of anti-asian hate crimes, asian-owned small businesses, and asians who need financial aid. please consider donating & boosting and adding more donation links if you have them.

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Special post for reaching 1000 followers on instagram! 

While Darwin is often credited as the father of the Theory of Evolution, it’d be more precise to say that he was the father of the Theory of Evolution “by Natural Selection”. 

Darwin’s genius was not in realizing that animals change over time, but in identifying the mechanisms by which these changes occur. 

The idea that animals evolve over generations was proposed by a number of scientists and philosophers in various forms. And today, we will look at Al Jahiz, who proposed the idea some 1000 years before our English naturalist.

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Bro we are stuck here for ever why don’t we just take care of each other like we’re supposed to

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The Deep  (2019)

The water-breathing descendants of African slave women tossed overboard have built their own underwater society—and must reclaim the memories of their past to shape their future in this brilliantly imaginative novella inspired by the Hugo Award–nominated song “The Deep” from Daveed Diggs’s rap group clipping

Yetu holds the memories for her people—water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners—who live idyllic lives in the deep. Their past, too traumatic to be remembered regularly, is forgotten by everyone, save one—the historian. This demanding role has been bestowed on Yetu.

Yetu remembers for everyone, and the memories, painful and wonderful, traumatic and terrible and miraculous, are destroying her. And so, she flees to the surface, escaping the memories, the expectations, and the responsibilities—and discovers a world her people left behind long ago.

Yetu will learn more than she ever expected to about her own past—and about the future of her people. If they are all to survive, they’ll need to reclaim the memories, reclaim their identity—and own who they really are.

by Rivers Solomon (Author), Daveed Diggs (Author), William Hutson (Author), Jonathan Snipes (Author)

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Rivers Solomon is the author of An Unkindness of Ghosts, and was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award finalist for Best New Writer. They graduated from Stanford University with a degree in comparative studies in race and ethnicity and hold an MFA in fiction writing from the Michener Center for Writers. Though originally from the United States, they currently live in Cambridge, England, with their family. Find them on Twitter @CyborgYndroid.

Daveed Diggs is an actor, singer, producer, writer, and rapper. He is the vocalist of the experimental hip hop group Clipping. Diggs originated the role of Marquis de Lafayette/Thomas Jefferson in the 2015 musical Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda which he won a Grammy and Tony for. He also cowrote, produced, and stars in the film Blindspotting. Find him on Twitter @DaveedDiggs.

William Hutson is a composer, known for Room 237 (2012), The Mayor (2017), and Ten Minutes Is Two Hours (2013). He is part of the rap group Clipping. Find him on Twitter @Clppng.

Jonathan Snipes is a composer and sound designer for film and theater living in Los Angeles. He occasionally teaches sound design in the theater department at UCLA, and is a member of the rap group Clipping. Find him at Jonat8han.com.

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Hello, I finally got around to making an Instagram for this. I would love if you gave it a follow!!

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Hello, I finally got around to making an Instagram for this. I would love if you gave it a follow!!

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I was googling around earlier today trying to figure out if “Go off” is AAVE (IT IS!!) when I found this really awesome article from Huffington Post back in 2018. These are a few amazing pieces that stood out to me!

"Everyone, including Black people, is erroneously taught that Black genius is more or less, public property with no clear 'ownership.' They're taught that it's morally acceptable for pretty much everyone to consume Black culture, with little regard or examination of one's own anti-Blackness," Chaédria LaBouvier wrote in an opinion piece for Vice's Motherboard.

Why do people feel so entitled to black culture in particular, and more so than any other culture that also exists in the greater fabric of North America at large? The most prevalent theory is that black culture is so integral to pop culture in general that it has become synonymous with it.

And if you want to stop using AAVE there are resources on other options to use! There is a super awesome Google document put together by a Facebook group for alternatives. Please use it!

These Were 2018's Hottest Slang Words — But Should You Use Them?

Words matter and you can choose to use them thoughtfully.

@gem-femme has some excellent posts regarding white people using AAVE so please go look at their posts and give them a follow!

[ID: a post from gem-femme on tumblr saying “If y’all can remove slurs from your vocabulary, you sure as hell can remove aave from your vocabularies. Especially when it clearly feels awkward on your tongue since y’all mother fuckers never use it right.” /ID]

[ID: a post from gem-femme on tumblr saying “It’s really so obvious to me that y’all think aave is just slang and not it’s own language with its own grammar system. Y’all really don’t seem to understand that just because a term we use in aave is also present in common English, doesn’t mean it has the same definition/meaning/context/etc. That’s why it sounds so awkward coming out of your mouths. That’s why it feels unnatural for you to say. Y’all are plucking terms out of our language system to add to your own, not considering that you need to take the grammar that is supposed to come with it when you use it, too. Y’all are stealing random pieces of the puzzle and wondering why you can’t see and understand the full picture the puzzle is supposed to create.” /ID]