#Black Southern culture

[tani-b-art]

Some more BLACK for your HISTORY!

“Henry Mack Heard was born on Nov. 10, 1924, in Memphis to Lucile (Pollard) and Robert Heard, a cement finisher. Henry always loved music and was inspired by the dancer Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, as he told Ebony magazine when it profiled him in 1951. He learned to dance at age 6 and was performing in clubs by the time he was 14. On Jan. 7, 1939, the car he was riding in with his group, the Three Dots, was struck by a train at an unguarded crossing in Memphis. Everyone in the car was killed except Henry, who suffered devastating injuries that necessitated the amputation of his right arm and right leg. After multiple surgeries, he thought his life as a dancer was over and was tempted to give up. But he resolved not to. “I’d seen the blind and the crippled standing on street corners with their tin cups and pencils,” he told The Columbus Star in 1958, “and decided that I wanted to do more with my life than be the object of public curiosity and pity.”

“His dancing upended audiences’ assumptions that people with disabilities were incapable of leading fulfilling lives, and he boldly turned a derogatory term, “crip,” into a stage name, declaring pride in his body’s unique power of expression. (The term “crip” has more recently been reclaimed by some in the disability movement to express pride in their identities.”

“Heard’s advocacy for people with disabilities didn’t stop there; for years he volunteered with agencies that supported them. He was known to say, “One of my main missions in life is to convince people not to give up.”

“Heard was one of a number of African American tap dancers, like Peg-Leg Bates, Big Time Crip and Jesse James, whose artistry made percussive use of a mobility aid.”

When you can’t fully acknowledge Black Americans/Foundational Black Americans as the sole progenitors of particular creations, YOU are practicing cultural & epistemic violence. Not only can you not acknowledge us, you also remove us from the origins. This type of jealousy and violence is deep.

Crip walking is another dance style created by Black Americans. By us.

We have dated footage and proof literally just about everytime, meanwhile, people will just say stuff with no backing whatsoever. We are a very well recorded and documented people!

Happy Black History Month!

[flossytiptin]

Victoria Monét in On My Mama music video gifs pt 6

[saydesole]

Black Southern Blues Singers

Happy Black History ✊🏿

Marvin Sease 1946-2011

Betty Wright 1953-2020

Johnnie Taylor 1934-2000

Denise Lasalle 1934-2018

Z.Z Hill 1935-1984

Ms. Jody 1957- Living

Mel Waiters 1956-2015

Tyrone Davis 1938-2005

[powerlineprincess]

☆a spider building a web☆35mm 2024 K.E.A Lux Hill☆

[theafroamericaine]

Source

[fizziedoodle]

Before anyone wants to argue that southern belle is only for white women: A Black upper class woman who values Black history and tradition. She is a supporter of Black owned businesses, and the preservation of Black history. She may be a graduate of a HBC and/or a member of the Black Sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha.

[cassiopoet]

Beauty/Death

You smile at the deer eating grass by the underpass

you smile at the dead ones on the highway too

Beauty does not stop at death to you.

4/9/24 via @cassiopoet

art is mine :]

[yinlotus]

Afro-American / Soulaan Culture: Bayasoube / Black Southern Belles

[vulturress-bone-pile]

a little peek into my collection

[hassanaliondant]

[bearimba]

Cooldown doodle featuring the beloved :)

edited bc I decided I didn't actually like the other drawing

[tani-b-art]

“…socially despised and yet artistically esteemed…”

This quote from Alain Locke can be applied to every non-Black person. Non-Black American people included.

Our subcultures, regional cultural characteristics (especially Southern Black American culture) are sooo extracted and copied, emulated and imitated, gleaned from while simultaneously being ridiculed, mocked and degraded.

Southern identifiers, dialect and accents are belittled yet are modeled after and mimicked.

The specific disdain and shame for Southern Black American culture is truly something (which has really been highlighted since the announcement of this album).

And yeah, Beyoncé soo country! Been country! Is country and never shied away from it!

[flossytiptin]

Football Pads Fashion ft OutKast, Teezo Touchdown & Travis Scott

[saydesole]

Black Country Singers

Charlie Pride 1934-2020

Linda Martell 1941- living

Darius Rucker 1966-living

Lesley Riddle 1905-1980

Deford Bailey 1899-1982

Cleve Francis 1945 -living

The Pointer Sisters 1969

Frankie Staton -living

Rest In Peace June Pointer, Anita Pointer, Bonnie Pointer

Country Music Is BLACK CULTURE

HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH

[portal-of-creoles]

A 18th century Louisiana Creole family

[vinniedangerous]

Niggas Gonna Be Ok (ft. Kamus Leonardo)

Lyrics

Hook:

From the jump I’ve been through hell they thought I’d fail but I’m still here/Throughout history tried to wipe us off the map but we’re still here/In this game they want me gone but no I think I’ll stay/No matter what they say/ Niggas gonna be ok (x3)/

Verse 1:

This is my black pride/What the panthers stood for before they died/Florida textbooks won’t have inside/Can’t put this on the shelf for a quick dime/Labels tell you to not put it in your lyrics suburban kids won’t buy it/But nowadays nobody buy this shit anyway so might as well try it/I’m about this shit, ain’t gotta look like shit, niggas in suits still get lynched/You take us away and this world would look like shit without our influence/From the family to the stranger that hit the head nod when I see ya/From our highest heights to our lowest moments y’all are still my niggas/

Verse 2 (Kamus Leondardo):

Doing what I’m supposed to out in Nova Scotia/ Sipping wine watching whales, handing out Dames posters/ Can’t forget the coasters I don’t mean to sell I just used it when I rolled up/ Flickin ashes on an oyster/ Got me feeling boisterous not hearing what the noise is/ Somewhere feeding Koi fish attracting good fortune/ I don’t really care what they say we gon be okay/ I don’t really care what they say niggas gone be okay/

Verse 3:

Fuck them crackas that want to say nigga you don’t even matter/No exception I don’t care if a nigga is your favorite rapper/I don’t care if this your favorite song and you want to sing it with me/When that part come on you better mute it like we did R. Kelly/Fuck that nigga/If he locked up & all your victims black I ain’t yelling free that nigga/If he always talking down on black folks, I don’t see that nigga/We can’t let no Uncle Ruckus walk among us/I might bring back FUBU, if it’s for us then we gotta buy us/