#African-american

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Evening Attire. A portrait by the African-American photographer James Van Der Zee (1886-1983), made of an unknown sitter in Harlem, NYC, in 1922. Now in the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.

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"Roxy" by Micell A. on INPRNT

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Vintage Magazine - Jet (July05th1982)

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Malcom X And Muhammad Ali with Malcolm’s Daughters

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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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Black Power

Art by Jay Hero

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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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Mickalene Thomas (b. Jan 28, 1971) is a contemporary African-American visual artist best known as a painter of complex works using rhinestones, acrylic, and enamel. Thomas's collage work is inspired from popular art histories and movements, including Impressionism, Cubism, Dada, the Harlem Renaissance, and selected works by the Afro-British painter Chris Ofili. Her work draws from Western art history, pop art, and visual culture to examine ideas around femininity, beauty, race, sexuality, and gender. Via W

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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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"Yera" by Micell A.

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Vintage Magazine - Sepia (Dec1978)

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Gloria the Cavegirl

I was wondering what the 1970s blaxploitation bombshell Gloria Hendry would look like had she been cast in one of the fanciful "caveman" movies (such as those by Hammer Films) that were in vogue at the time. And so this sketchbook doodle was born. If you ask me, given what we now know about the African origins of humanity, not having Gloria as a Afro-sporting cavegirl in any of those films was a missed opportunity.

Her outfit here is of course inspired by that of Raquel Welch's character in "One Million Years BC".

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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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