#African-american

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"Roxy" by Micell A. on INPRNT

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Malcom X And Muhammad Ali with Malcolm’s Daughters

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Vintage Magazine - Jet (July05th1982)

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Cabinet photograph of a woman in a plaid dress, shown in three-quarter view. Unknown photographer in the employ of Fisher & Monfort, Plainfield, NJ. Now in the Yale University Library, New Haven, CT.

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Black Power

Art by Jay Hero

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Early art. Again with Rock actually holding a gun with no issues! just something that's been catching my eye....even though this is Rei's much earlier art, considering his current "Twilight" character in the manga.

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All the official Sunday GX Magazine covers thus far.

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Alice Ball

Alice Ball was born in 1892 in Seattle, Washington. As a chemist at what is now the University of Hawaii, Ball developed an effective treatment for leprosy that involved extracting oil from chaulmoogra fruit seeds to inject into the bloodstream. Her breakthrough helped free numerous people from leper colonies, and was one of the main treatments for leprosy before the advent of sulfone antibiotics. Ball died suddenly at age 24, before she was able to publish her findings, and the college president took the credit for her work. Her contributions were forgotten for many years, until records of her work were rediscovered by researchers in the 1970s.

Image source: University of Hawaii

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Boys playing “king of the mountain” on jungle gym, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1974.

Jeanne Pitre Soileau - Yo’ Mama, Mary Mack, and Boudreaux and Thibodeaux: Louisiana Children's Folklore and Play (2016)

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Adieu to truly great trailblazer Harry Belafonte (1 March 1927 – 25 April 2023), who’s died aged 96. He was a singer (who popularized calypso music in the 50s), actor of stage and screen, outspoken civil rights activist (on close terms with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr) and – as this vintage pin-up amply demonstrates – a raving beauty.

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Hello to every beautiful soul that landed on my blog. My name is Alexandria, the Black Art History Hottie, who is here to express her love of educating how the Black diaspora always been present in historical context of the visual art world. I am a 24 years old painter, who graduated from the Illustrious institution, Morgan State University, with my bachelors in Fine Arts - Multimedia art (concentration in painting). The work I produce are figurative and portrait paintings, mostly self-portraitures. My vulnerability and story-telling is what guides me to my self-portraiture pieces; and for my figurative paintings I honor and celebrate culture and traditions of the Black diaspora by illuminating the historical, revolutionary, and profound act of us existing.

I've had an interest in art history since the 11th grade, but I found love and fascination of it when I was a sophomore in college. Learning how societies evolved, cultures being established, and even civilizations going into turmoil; and analyzing how that is represented in art for centuries became thrilling for me. I discovered the importance of learning historical context displayed in the visual art world is a reflection of the diverse human experiences that shaped our cultures and customs, carry traditions, and share historical events that will never go untold. After completing all of my western art history courses in college I felt as if there was something missing from my art academia , and that was the not learning about the influence of the Black diaspora in the art history world.

During college I only learned a fraction of how Black people were present in the art world during my American art class, but I knew our history is more expansive than just being secluded to American art. After college I made it my hobby to invest myself into learning not only more about art history, but how the Black diaspora is referenced and represented in art history. That is how the Black Art History Hottie was born. To allow me to use this platform to share the extensive knowledge and our rich history, culture, and customs that is reflected in art. How Black people are exemplified in the fine arts world, and we deserve to see ourselves outside the history of trauma and oppression that was meant to tear us apart. We are more than such perpetual trauma. No matter where we step foot in, we've always became apart of historical context, and such historical context should be learned, embraced, and celebrated. While passing down such knowledge from generation to generation is what establishes the value of the art history; For it to not be forgotten.

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"Yera" by Micell A.

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The Met "Harlem is Everywhere Episode 1: The New Negro" (2024)

First episode of a series of podcasts exploring The Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibit, "The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism", on view until July 28, 2024.

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Vintage Magazine - Sepia (Dec1978)

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Georgetown Corner in the Rain, Bernice Cross, 1934

Photo credit: Smithsonian American Art Museum under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license

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Sgt. Rock #406 (1985)

Art by Joe Kubert