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Let me just interject on this post because Quay Dash has not reached her goal to secure safe housing. If you are able to donate, especially in honor of SOPHIE’s passing, here is her GoFundMe <3

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Cicely Tyson, 1960

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MARLENE CLARK as Ganja Meda in Ganja & Hess (1972) dir. Bill Gunn

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akeem smith “no gyal can test”

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Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, ‘The Ventricular’, oil on linen, 2018

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Josephine Baker by George Hoyningen-Huene for Vogue Studio, 1927

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People’s Account (1985) 

 A documentary film by Ceddo Film and Video Workshop about the Broadwater Farm ‘riot’ on 6 October 1985.

Watch on Youtube: https://youtu.be/xWp4Icbcbbc

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from The Discreet Charm of the Bougie, Renée Cox, 2008.

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Julius Eastman at Griffis Sculpture Park, summer 1975. © Chris Rusiniak. (via)

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From Watching TV series, by Olivier Culmann

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Watching TV, 2004-2007 by Olivier Culmann

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In anticipation of the (now virtual) New York Caribbean Week and the annual Labor Day Parade, this August we’re highlighting artworks in the Museum’s collection that celebrate the presence of Caribbean culture and its diasporas.

New York’s annual Labor Day Parade, also known as the West Indian Day Parade, originated in Harlem with Trinidadian Jessie Waddell, in the 1930’s. In homage to Trinidad’s annual Carnival, Waddell hosted costume parties amongst friends in landmark enclaves, like the Savoy and Audubon Ballrooms, which progressed into a street parade in Harlem in 1947. In 1969, the parade relocated to Brooklyn, under the direction of the late Carlos Lezama (aka “The Father of Brooklyn Carnival”) where it has resided ever since. Participation in the parade is both a rite of passage and an extension of lineage, as a span of all generations flock to indulge in the conducted chaos, as seen in Catherine Green’s images. Green captures the essence of tradition and the nuance of evolution as themes of cultural pride and extravagance meet ancestral reverence and sacredness. 

Posted by Jenée-Daria Strand Catherine Green (American, born 1952). Untitled (West Indian Day Parade), 1991. Chromogenic photographs. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the artist, 1991.58.1-3; Helen Babbott Sanders Fund, 1991.69.1-2. © artist or artist’s estate⁠ (Photos: Brooklyn Museum)

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The Magnolia Project: II, 2008 - Mildred Howard 

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Da Brat

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Riley Montana photographed by Jakob Landvik for Wonderland Magazine