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Do not analyse, Gillian Wearing

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“You have saved yourself from drowning every time before this. You will rescue yourself again.”

— Nikita Gill, Powerful One Sentence Reminders To Read When You Are Doubting Your Growth And Healing

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Sunset before the sun sets - submitted by bleubell-cheesecake

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chill with me at your own risk i don’t mind being quiet for 4 hours

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sometimes i feel a rush of love so big it scares me. i can feel it spreading in my chest and i get scared my ribs will have to shift to make room for it. love so bright you can feel it in your knees and your eyes and your fingertips and your elbows. love so loud it knocks you right over. changes my life every time

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My latest for New Scientist.

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Just some really great “Family Feud” answers.

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Under the volcano, Emeric Fancelli (@emeric_gf )

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perhaps some will disagree, but i think the world got worse when we changed the colour of the night

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Today We Honor Arturo Alfonso Schomburg

One of the most influential forces behind the creation of The New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is the man the research center is named after, Arturo Alfonso Schomburg.

Born in Puerto Rico in 1874, Schomburg was a Puerto Rican of African and German descent. Young Arturo often wondered about the lack of African history taught in his classrooms. This interest formed the cornerstone of Schomburg’s eventual lifework consisting of research and preservation—work that would lead him to become one of the world’s premier collectors of Black literature, slave narratives, artwork, and diasporic materials.

During the 1920s and '30s, Schomburg traveled to Europe, Latin America, and across the United States collecting new materials that bolstered his already voluminous collection, and in 1926 the Carnegie Corporation funded The New York Public Library’s purchase of Schomburg’s private collection for $10,000.

This would mark the beginning of the 135th Street branch’s transformation into the Schomburg Center.

Schomburg’s curation work was so heralded that in 1929, Fisk University President Charles S. Johnson invited him to curate Fisk’s library. By assisting in the architectural design of the library and focusing on providing equitable experiences for researchers, including the building of a reading room and browsing space, Schomburg helped cement Fisk’s standing as one of the leading institutions on Black research and studies. By the time Schomburg ended his tenure at Fisk, the library’s collection had expanded to 4,600 books from a mere 106 items.

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