#New York Voices

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Guys I'm so glad everyone loves hit JRWI campaign: The Suckening so much. 12 thousand notes on just a thumbnail that's so cool. Anyone think about emizel pussy-out post revival

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Carol Of The Bells

[asterofthedeepforest]

Sebby faces. Why would a fish need to shave smh

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November 26, 2023 - Over 1500 American Jews with Jewish Voice for Peace and their allies blocked traffic on the Manhattan Bridge in NYC for three hours, demanding a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and an end to Israeli occupation. [video]

[newyorkthegoldenage]

One of the artists commissioned to create a new work for the 1939-40 World's Fair was the sculptor Augusta Savage. A leading member of the Harlem Renaissance, she was the only black woman to be so honored.

Her piece, intended to celebrate African-Americans’ contributions to music, showed a kneeling black man holding a bar of music and 12 black chorus singers representing strings on a harp, the sounding board of which was no less than the hand of God. She called it Lift Every Voice and Sing, a nod to a poem by her friend James Weldon Johnson that was later set to music and adopted as the black "national anthem" by the NAACP.

The work stood 16 feet tall and was made of plaster that had been lacquered to look like black basalt. She was paid $360 for it (around $8,000 in today's dollars) and it was placed in the courtyard of the Contemporary Arts Building, near one of the Fair’s gates. Fair officials renamed it The Harp, which Savage reportedly hated. Small metal replicas were sold as souvenirs, and images of it were reproduced on postcards.

When the Fair ended, Savage had no money to remove and store her sculpture, or to cast the large piece in bronze, as she had with other, smaller works. So, like all the other "temporary" artwork created for the Fair, it was destroyed by a bulldozer.

In 2017, a NY Times op-ed piece by the filmmaker Aviva Kempner proposed that a full-size replica of the sculpture be created and placed in front of the National Museum of African-American History & Culture in Washington. So far, there has been no movement towards carrying that idea out.

Photos: top and center, NYPL. Bottom, illustration from the book Harlem: Negro Metropolis (E.P. Dutton 1940) via The Wolfsonian–FIU.

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Grunkle Stunkle wins the Funkle Bunkle, live action edition

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via nyislanders on instagram (9.18.24)

[erinwantstowrite]

trying to find voice claims is so hard and for what

[grandprixbarzal]

MAT BARZAL | Media Availability 9/16

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I finally managed to snap a photo of this billboard. For some reason I never had my phone out whenever I passed previously.

[fanofspooky]

Lucio Fulci’s horror movies

[negrolicity]

Cotton Tail

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i’m not well

[katgeckost]

i’m crying

[jamjoob]

Harley quinn voice claims

[wistfulvulpine]

rewatched season 2 so it's time for S2 lookbook...2! (now with Jancy!)

part 1