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Tina Turner and Beyoncé 

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Azalea Gilliam

Bowie, MD

5xGreat Grand daughter

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'For the first time in the history of college sports athletes are asking to be represented by a labor union...taking formal steps...to begin the process of being recognized as employees...'

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Ikenaga Yasunari 

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The story of the Florida School for Boys is so painful…because difficult and delinquent boys are so easy to forget about. They are, in our time, the least among us, the most vulnerable, and the easiest to victimize. But this is precisely why the state of Florida should put the remaining old men on trial for crimes committed so long ago: to ignore such crimes is to compound the sin. We should not confirm the principle that some among us can be raped, tortured, or killed without repercussion. These dead boys, whose lives were discarded, should not be forgotten again.

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fifty-five bodies…found in unmarked graves on the grounds of the former Florida School for Boys, in the panhandle town of Marianna.

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more than any position in sport, the…quarterback was…tied to the vilest presumptions of…racism. There are reasons why James Harris didn’t break pro football’s barrier until twenty-two years after Jackie Robinson broke pro baseball’s. There are reasons why the last four positions to be desegregated in pro football were the four with the most decision-making responsibility: free safety, middle linebacker, center, and quarterback.

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Heroine

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Inspired

Every month is Black History Month at Vintage Black Glamour, so I’m just going to keep doing business as usual here. This is educator, writer, activist Mary Church Terrell. Born in Memphis, Tennessee to wealthy parents who were former slaves (her father, Robert Reed Church, was the South’s first black millionaire), Ms. Church Terrell earned bachelor’s (1884) and master’s (1888) degrees from Oberlin College. She also studied in Europe for several years and was fluent in German, Spanish and French. Her language fluency came in handy in 1904 when she was invited to speak at the International Congress of Women in Berlin, Germany. The only black woman in attendance, she delivered her speech in German, French and English. Ms. Church Terrell was a founder and the first president of the National Association of Colored Women (Charlotte Hawkins Brown was a vice president). Adapting the motto “Lifting As We Climb,” the organization was formed, in part, in response to an attack on the character and respectability of African American women by an influential journalist who referred to them as “thieves and prostitutes”. Ms. Church Terrell died in 1954, at the age of 90, not long after leading the fight to desegregate restaurants in Washington, D.C.

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Hughes

Langston Hughes was born 112 years ago today in Joplin, Missouri. This photo was taken by Nickolas Muray, a Hungarian-American photographer who was also an Olympic fencer, in 1923 when Mr. Hughes was about 21 years old.

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Actress and singer Sheila Guyse, best known for her role in the 1947 film “Sepia Cinderella,” died on December 28, 2013 in Honolulu, Hawaii at the age of 88. Ms. Guyse was born Etta Drucille Guyse on July 14, 1925, in Forest, Mississippi. After winning the amateur night competition at the Apollo Theater, she appeared in Broadway musicals like “Finian’s Rainbow” (1947) and “Lost in the Stars” (1949) along with several other film appearances including “Miracle In Harlem" in 1948. Photo: New York Times obituary.

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In the technocratic world of Google (which owns YouTube), my musical brethren and I are no longer artists; we’re not creators—we are merely ‘content providers.’ Copyright and intellectual property mean nothing to the technocracy. They’ve built multi-billion-dollar, global empires on the backs of creative, working people who are uncompensated. They’re wrecking entire industries…There might be a legislative fix, but there seems to be no political will. Google alone has about a dozen lobbyists on Capitol Hill. Google spent over $11 million last year on lobbying and over $18 million the previous year. They spread the money and the propaganda around like manna, employing their favorite buzz words like ‘innovation.’ Regulation, they say, will ‘stifle innovation, and the legislators all nod in agreement.

Don Henley (via thesmithian)

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green eye, david downton 2013

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All leather everything. 

Photograph by Patrick Demarchelier; styled by Patrick Mackie; W Magazine February 2014. 

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Hi Lady.

. @driesvannoten please. 212 872 8947 #bgshoes (at Bergdorf Goodman)

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Ines di Santo. 212 872 8957

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Barbara Stanwyck in “Baby Face” (1933)