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Remembering the great #RoyHargrove @groveydean, who would have turned 56 years old yesterday, October 16, 2025. His cover of Funkadelic's "I'll Stay" featuring our beloved D'Angelo @thedangelo is even more soulful now ... my Gawd!

#BlackGenius

I hope he and D'Angelo are soon reunited in the next realm and will be having a helluva jam session.

Still stunned ... 🕊🕊💔

♎️#LibraArtists #LibraSeason

Image and caption reposted from @groveydean @ververecords: "...Hard Groove, the ground breaking debut album of Roy's band The RH Factor! Joined by neo soul compatriots from the Soulquarians and incredible musicians from across genres the album features an unbelievable line up:

RH Factor - Keith Anderson, Jacques Schwarz-Bart, Bobby Sparks, James Poyser, Bernard Wright, Spanky (Chalmers Alford), Cornell Dupree, Pino Palladino, Reggie Washington, Jason JT Thomas and Willie Jones III

With guest musicians: Gene Lake, Marc Cary, Daniel Moreno, Tony Suggs, Keith Loftis, Dontae Winslow, Craig Butter Glanville, Maurice Brown, John Lee, Kwaku Obeng

And special guests: Common, Q-Tip, Erykah Badu, Anthony Hamilton, Renee Neufville, Stephanie McKay, Shelby Johnson, Meshell Ndegeocello, Steve Coleman, Karl Denson and D’Angelo 🔥

Recorded at Electric Lady Studios, NYC

Engineered and mixed by Russell Elevado

Additional engineering Steven Mandel and Steef van de Gevel

Art direction Hollis King

Illustration by Rudy Gutierrez

Design Hollis King and Sachico Asano

Photography Hans Neleman"

#RHFactor #Funk #Soul #Jazz

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♎️🎨#ArtIsAWeapon Happy 93rd B'earthday to #artistactivist, my hero @faithringgold!!

Images of Ms. Ringgold's extraordinary body of work taken at her 2022 exhibition "American People" at @newmuseum

"Bringing together over fifty years of work, 'Faith Ringgold: American People' provides the most comprehensive assessment to date of the artist’s impactful vision.

Artist, author, educator, and organizer, Faith Ringgold is one of the most influential cultural figures of her generation, with a career linking the multi-disciplinary practices of the Harlem Renaissance to the political art of young Black artists working today. For sixty years, Ringgold has drawn from both personal autobiography and collective histories to both document her life as an artist and mother and to amplify the struggles for social justice and equity. From creating some of the most indelible artworks of the civil rights era to challenging accepted hierarchies of art versus craft through her experimental story quilts, Faith Ringgold has produced a body of work that bears witness to the complexity of the American experience.

'Faith Ringgold: American People' is the most comprehensive exhibition to date of this groundbreaking artist’s vision, highlighted by the first full presentation of her historic French Collection in over twenty years along with many other quintessential works that will be exhibited together for the first time in decades. Featuring Ringgold’s best-known series, this show examines the artist’s figurative style as it evolved to meet the urgency of political and social change. The exhibition also foregrounds her radical explorations of gender and racial identities, which the artist incorporates into the rich textures of her "paintings, #softsculptures, and #storyquilts." - www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/faith-ringgold-american-people

#FaithRinggold #LibraSeason #LibraArtists #FavoriteArtists #BlackWomenArtists #October8

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❤🎶🎤👑 #ArtIsAWeapon #LibraArtists On this day (October 21) in 1925 a queen was born! HAPPY B'EARTHDAY to the Queen of Salsa #CeliaCruz! Reposted from @celiacruz - There are ways of living, and there is Celia´s way of living. You choose! Put azúcar in your day! Reposted from @nprmusic "Turning The Tables" - When a schoolteacher named Úrsula Hilaria Celia de la Caridad Cruz Alfonso replaced Myrta Silva as the singer of La Sonora Matancera in 1950, something cracked in Cuban popular music. A black woman became the face and voice of one of the island's foremost orquestas, and the Yoruba influence of Afro-Cuban santería that built the island's most popular dance musics had never been amplified so institutionally. Over the course of the next six decades, Cruz became la reina de la guaracha, the queen of salsa and a pioneer of the first Latin wave in American popular music with the likes of Tito Puente, Johnny Pacheco and Willie Colón in the Fania All-Stars. She seized a space for pop salsa artists like Gloria Estefan, Albita, Willy Chirino and La India to sustain. Now, artists as genre-diverse as Amara La Negra, Wyclef Jean and J Balvin channel her. Disciples peerless in their own rights like Aymée Nuviola and Lucrecia have portrayed her. Masters like Angelique Kidjo and Daymé Arocena are recentering the West African influence Cruz foregrounded. To this day, Cruz remains matchless in meeting the pain of exile and immigration with as full and joyous a song as she sang. ¡Azúcar! www.npr.org/series/747575147/celia-cruz-turning-the-tables . . . . . #LaReinaDeLaSalsa #AfroCuban #LaGuaracheraDeCuba #CeliaCruz #CeliaCruzCuba #CeliaCruzLegacy #CeliaCruzStore #GraphicTributeToCeliaCruz #CeliaCruzCollection #MusicIsLife #TraScapades #ArtIsAWeapon https://www.instagram.com/p/B35h7IlFKDw/?igshid=15aj6k2xwz0r4

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💜🎶♎🎺💃🏿#ArtIsAWeapon #LibraSeason @soulinthehorn shenanigans with @hinikoj. [*insert weebay face*] #LibraArtists #SoulInTheHorn #NYNightlife #MusicIsLife #Weebay #Actors #Dancers #BlackExcellence #TraScapades #StillCelebrating #September30 #LibraLove (at Chelsea Music Hall) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3ymSLpl2C0/?igshid=hsi1ypf4jlo7

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💜♎🎨 #ArtIsAWeapon #LibraArtists Happy B'earthday master painter 👨🏿‍🎨 @kerryjamesmarshs, who was born on this day (October 17) in 1955. His rich, vibrant #art depicting facets of Black life in America brings me immense joy! 🖼 Image 1 - "Could This Be Love" (1992) 🖼 Image 2 - "Slow Dance" (1992-1993) #KerryJamesMarshall #BlackArtists #BlackArt #BlackLove #LibraLove #unapologeticallyblack #BlackGirlArtGeeks🤓 #ArtLover #American #Painter #acrylic #canvas #mixedmedia #TraScapades #ArtIsAWeapon https://www.instagram.com/p/B3u_gQip0rf/?igshid=fsmijbwzdzwp

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💜♎🎶🎸🎤#ArtIsAWeapon #ROCKSTAR "Brittany Howard [@blackfootwhitefoot] brought an eight-piece backing band to the Tiny Desk [@tinydesk] for a set of deeply personal and affecting songs." - Reposted from @nprmusic. Watch entire performance: www.npr.org/series/tiny-desk-concerts/ #BrittanyHoward @@alabama_shakes #LibraArtists #LibraSeason #WomenBandleaders #SingerSongwriter #Rock #Blues #SoulMusic #Jamie #guitarist #MusicIsLife #NPRMusic #TinyDesk #NPRTinyDesk #TraScapades #ArtIsAWeapon https://www.instagram.com/p/B3qCM4rlLkx/?igshid=1fnbdf77spqcb