faux archivist.

briana. i'm a black american woman from the south with haitian roots. this side blog is a celebration of culture and black women.

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All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (2023)

Director - Raven Jackson, Cinematography - Jomo Fray

"You want to know a secret? It doesn't end or begin. Just changes form. Water. All these drops might be a river someday. Might be snow. Might be in you."

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Women in Film Challenge 2025: [87/52] All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt, dir. Raven Jackson (USA, 2023)

My mom used to put a little bit of dirt in my hand. “This you,” she said, “Dirt and water.” Her mama had said the same to her. When it rain, it’s like it’s singing to you. You can smell it in the air, taste the rain in the dirt.

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All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (2023) dir. Raven Jackson

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Lorna Simpson | Interiors, LA 1957 - NY 2009

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by Kwame Brathwaite

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The first Miss Black America, Saundra Williams.

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I would love to connect with other Black historians, librarians, and archivists (formally educated or self-taught) who focus on fashion and costume history, art history, textiles, crafts, and cultural anthropology.

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Removing the Wool: Killer of Sheep’s Charles Burnett on Watts storytelling, LA Rebellion and Black domestic life on film

Removing the Wool: Killer of Sheep’s Charles Burnett on Watts storytelling, LA Rebellion and Black domestic life on film • Journal • A Lette

As Killer of Sheep lands back in theaters with a new 4K restoration, Adesola Thomas speaks with filmmaker Charles Burnett about his six-deca

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OMG...Vogue's MET Gala Issue...✨💓💓💓

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cooking with grease!

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Billie Holiday, Berlin, 1954.

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Black Rock n Roll Musicians

Happy Black History Is Everyday

Betty Davis 1944-2022

Chuck Berry 1926-2017

Sister Rosetta Tharpe 1915-1973

Big Jo Turner 1911-1985

Tracy Chapman living

Jimi Hendrick 1942-1970

Tina Turner 1939-2023

Fats Domino 1928-2017

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Tina Turner

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Music in Film: Summer of Soul (… Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021) dir. Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson

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please watch this film! <3<3<3<3

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Ahmir-Khalib Thompson’s Summer of Soul (…or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021)

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please watch this magnificent film!

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funk singer, betty davis ꨄ

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Black Women of Rock & Roll in the 60s and 70s:

Sister Rosetta Tharpe

Marsha Hunt

The Ronettes

Betty Davis

Norma-Jean Wofford a.k.a “The Duchess”

Poly Styrene

Merry Clayton

Tina Turner