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blackcontemporaryart:

Alva Rogers on the cover of Essence magazine in 1993.

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southern summer days.

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rifles:

African American exchange students from Lincoln University (PA) at a Black Panther solidarity rally in the University of Frankfurt, 1971
ph: Barbara Klemm

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updownsmilefrown:

The juke joints of the rural south featured blues and dancing and catered to the working class. Typically constructed with unfurnished walls and roofed with tin, they were usually open late at night and on weekends when patrons were likely to have spending money.

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a moment of joy.

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colorburst.

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dorothy!

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happy birthday, maya angelou.

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thats-the-way-it-was:

April 4, 1968: Civil rights leader, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is shot to death at a hotel in Memphis, Tennessee. A single shot fired by James Earl Ray from over 200 feet away at a nearby motel struck King in the neck. He died an hour later at St. Joseph’s Hospital.
Photo: Ralph Abernathy, with Mrs. Martin Luther King and her children lead a massive march through through the streets of Memphis on April 8, 1968 (Art Shay/Time & Life Pictures/Getty)

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westindians:

naomi sims

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