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Eartha Kitt, from Kodachrome slides, 1954

Photographer: Carl Van Vechten

#socialdox

THE WHEEL OF TIME | 3.08–“He Who Comes With the Dawn”

Willie Cole, “American Domestic”, 2016, Digital Print

(Tom Laidman, “Broadway”, 1993 and “Bois Ma Petite”, 1999, Lithograph on paper)

Currently on view at Akron Museum of Art is RETOLD: African American Art and Folklore, a collection of art from the Wesley and Missy Cochran collection, organized into themes exploring aspects of African American history and culture. The show features many well known and lesser known artists including Amiri Baraka, Beverly Buchanan, Willie Cole, Trenton Doyle Hancock, William Pope.L., Tom Laidman, Jacob Lawrence, Alison Saar and more.

From the museum about the exhibition-

African folklore has been around as long as humankind, and the African diaspora in America has added new dimensions to its rich history. African American folk stories teach about culture, the mysteries of life, and the survival of a race of people bought and sold who continue to thrive in an unjust society.

“RETOLD: African American Art and Folklore” focuses on four themes: Remembering, Religion, Racialization, and Resistance. These themes provide a comprehensive retelling of the works featured in the exhibition. In many of the pieces, the artist’s muse connects closely with stories that have been told generation after generation. Folklore texts are featured throughout the space as a means to retell a richer, deeper story of African American culture.

There are more than forty artists represented in this exhibition, all holding one similar truth: their story of joy and struggle in the African American experience.

In addition to the artwork, there is also an educational video produced by Josh Toussaint-Strauss of The Guardian that explores the misconceptions about Haitian Voudou that is worth a watch.

How ‘voodoo’ became a metaphor for evil

"and never return until she calls me home"

her face card???? Insaneeeee😮‍💨🤌🏽

HEEEER!!!!

Source: Interview with Daniel Henney and Sophie Okonedo

Sarah McEneaney (German-American, 1955) - Blue Super Moon (2024)

"Black people don't owe anybody anything... but an ass whooping."

Dr John Henrik Clarke

No matter how many times I watch The Last Holiday, I bawl like a baby whenever Queen Latifah says this.

“you will be visited by three spirits”

the three spirits:

Challenge everything that makes you retreat. Everything that makes you feel small. Challenge it.

Ntozake Shange

The Speed of Jazz

Elphaba: Why do men lick their lips before they talk? Glinda: To marinate their lies.

and the worst part is, its THAT girl

Lorraine O'Grady (1934-2024)

♥

(image: Lorraine O’Grady in her apartment, København, 1962. PBS. Photo: Courtesy of Wellesley College Archives)

(plus: Lorraine O'Grady (1934-2024), Mariane Ibrahim Gallery, Chicago, IL, Paris, and Ciudad de México)

Detanico Lain [Angela Detanico and Rafael Lain], Infini / from Giordano Bruno, 1584, (wall painting; dimensions variable), 2018, Unique work of a series of 5 [Martine Aboucaya, Paris. © Detanico Lain]

Nikki Giovanni, Black Feeling, Black Talk, Introduction by Barbara Crosby, 1968 [Privately Printed] [Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC. © Nikki Giovanni]

Miles Davis - All Blues (Official Audio)

And Still We Write, Recent work by Palestinian poets & actions you can take to stop genocide now, Publishers for Palestine, 2024 (pdf here)

Contributors: Batool Abu Akleen, Samer Abu Hawwash, Heba Al-Agha, Mahmoud Alshaer, Julia Choucair Vizoso, Asmaa Dwaima, Basman Eldirawi, Huda Fakhreddine, Esam Hajjaj, Omar Ibrahim, Doha Kahlout, Mariam Mohammed Al Khateeb, Husam Maarouf, Nasser Rabah, Nour Nemer, Wiam El-Tamami, Mohammad al-Zaqzouq

«These poems and reflections do not exist separately from their authors, nor from the place and time in which they were composed. They are not here for passive reading. And so, at the end of this collection, we leave you with suggested actions. As poet Rasha Abdulhadi has written: "Wherever you are, whatever sand you can throw on the gears of genocide, do it now."» ― From the Introduction

Free Palestine Reading List for November 29 – December 5, 2024

~ Keep your head above the water.

Ntozake Shange, Bocas: A Daughter's Geography, in A Daughter's Geography, Designed by Manuela Paul, St. Martin's Press, New York, NY, 1983, pp. 21-23

(text here, via Black Women Radicals)

Artemsia Gentileschi ‘David and Bathsheba’, 1650-c. 1652

Cornelia Parker, Island, 2022, via the New York Times

Bernadette Despujols Mi Abuela Celina (My Grandmother Celina) 2021, Oil on canvas 29 ¾ x 24 in

Barbara Howard, in church today realizing she gave more money this month to Melissa than to God:

The hand of Miles Davis

Ph Irving Penn