March 2011
Watchevo-ifc:
Peep the Color Outside of the Lines Black Tattoo culture Film Kickstarter Project trailer and donate to the project here…
The film is the brainchild of one of the world’s most widely recognized black tattoo artists; Miya Bailey. For over 5 years the idea has always been in his head to create a film that not only sheds light on the artform, but also allows the artform to be...
Africana Age: African & African Diasporan... →
youlikemealready:
“The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library has just published a new website: Africana Age: African & African Diasporan Transformations in the 20th Century. With 17 essays by various scholars, over 500 images, 8 maps, and 21 videos, Africana Age retraces a turbulent history of challenges, tragedies, and triumphs over the long century.”
“Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you’re a bit larger than...”
– Gregory Maguire (via word-collector)
10 Most Segregated Urban Areas in Amurrica →
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hamsterpantsworld:
20 Leading Black Women Social Activists via The... →
Watchmaybesomethingbeautiful:
Video of Erykah Badu spinning at Bardot a couple months back in Miami…
“Back in January, Erykah (aka Lo Down Loretta Brown) asked me to come down to Miami to film a DJ set she was slated to perform alongside Dead Prez and Supanova. The night before the show, I kicked it hard with Erykah, her manager Paul, and her DJ, Ringo. On the day of the show, we hung in the trailer...
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and...”
– Maria Robinson (via coolstorybredren)
Google launches Umbono, a Cape Town-based... →
