Uptown, Saturday Night

Reflections and ruminations on the beautiful struggle.

[twixnmix]

Vintage Black Music Magazine Covers

Marvin Gaye 

Albert King 

Tina Turner 

Curtis Mayfield 

Roberta Flack

Betty Davis

Barry White 

Bob Marley 

Chaka Khan 

Louis Johnson

[twixnmix]

Keith Haring, Grace Jones, Fela Kuti, and Jean-Michel Basquiat at Mr. Chow in New York City, 1986.

Photos by Andy Warhol  

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Sudan, Meroe Necropolis, Boys Running Toward Pyramids.

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Kobe and GiGi 😭😭😢 . This is absolutely heartbreaking.

[rrrick]

Early Hip-Hop Style from photographer Jamel Shabazz

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ج

[inneroptics]

Charles Mingus in London in 1951 -  Robert Frank

[nobrashfestivity]

Roy DeCarava, Billie Holiday at Braddocks, 1952

more

[ultrahipdonthopthings]

Rakim & Eric B: 14th Street, New York, 1989.

[predecessors]

Activist Bayard Rustin addresses a crowd from a podium. 1965.

[areacarioca]

Rocinha - Rio de Janeiro. Que fotão <3

Foto: André Cypriano.

@eorioeraassim

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Amy Sherald 

She had an inside and an outside now and suddenly she knew how not to mix them, 2018

oil on canvas

[grupaok]

Ed Clark, work in progress, 2009

[blowmyblues]

I try to play the bare essence, to let everything be just what it’s supposed to be.

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Kerry James Marshall 

B. 1955 

UNTITLED (PAINTER), 2008 

acrylic on PVC panel, in artist’s frame  28 ¾ by 24 ¾ in. 73 by 62.9 cm.

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Jazz legends in France by Jean-Pierre Leloir