#afro american

[gent-illmatic]

Goated🐐

[thesaurushouseofdesign]

JOHN SAUNDERS CHASE JR. FAIA (1925-2012)

When Mr Chase went to college in the 1940s, only 10% of the population had undergraduate degrees, and very few of those were people of color. 

Mr Chase enrolled in Hampton University and went on to become the first Black graduate from the University of Texas. In 1952, he was the first Black architect in Texas to get an architectural license. 

Because no firms would hire him, to fulfill a required apprenticeship, Chase appealed to the State of Texas to take his licensing exam without the required apprenticeship. He took it and passed.

Soon after, he designed a sleek Modernist building at 1191 Navasota Street in East Austin for the offices of the Colored Teachers State Association of Texas. About 70 years later the building was acquired by the University of Texas at Austin.

Mr Chase took work where he could find it, which in the beginning meant Black clientele. He designed Riverside National Bank in Texas, and he designed several buildings for Texas Southern University. As his career continued to grow, Chase opened offices in Dallas, Houston, Austin, and Washington DC.

Throughout his life Chase was an advocate for the arts, encouraging other people of color to become architects, and in 1971 he became one of the 12 co-founders of the National Organization of Minority Architects (NOMA), architects who met at the 1971 Detroit AIA Conference.

Mr Chase was the first Black member of the Texas Society of Architects and the Houston AIA.  In 1980, President Jimmy Carter appointed him as the first Black member of the US Commission of Fine Arts.

1959 - The John and Drucie Chase House, 3512 Oakdale Street, Houston TX. He added a second story around 1968.

[sanyu-thewitch05]

These Afro-American folklore stories are so beautiful. I especially like that within the horror ones, we’ve been running away from scary ish. We’ve been not dying from scary things. We know when to run. I also like there’s also a mermaid and fairy tale too. But these stories were so much fun to read.

@queen-shiba you’ll love this.

[ciegeinc]

Malcolm X (1992) cinematography pt3

[zaekinchen]

certain niggas juss carry themselves differently.

[akssyah]

vinetria chubb (1999) afro-american, korean (galerie)

[ifiwasyourgirlfr1end]

Black History Month🖤

[woobosco]

Afro Culture (My Culture)

@woobosco

[letz-smoke-zaza]

Brown liquor, brown sugar, brown face

Brown liquor, brown sugar, brown face

Black skin, black Benz, black plays

Black molasses, blackberry the masses

Just sittin’ here foolin’ around

We just sittin’ here coolin’ around

We just sittin’ here high, coming down

— Almeda, Solange ft. Playboi Carti

[chromet]

Denim Tears X Champion USA

Available HERE for purchase on @grailed

[fishcat076]

Miss T, Barkley L. Hendricks, 1969

[myanalogai]

Black Decades

[chewyscircus]

Bones

《 English》

Today's drawing is a bit different from the others, it might be a bit more sensitive, so I hope you like it, she is one of my ocs Gaby (she is an oc from Rise of tmnt) and it's based on the song Bones by Imagine Dragons, I hope you like it!

《 Español》

El dibujo de hoy es un poco diferente a los demás, puede que sea un poco más sensible, así que espero que les guste, ella es una de mis ocs Gaby (es una oc de Rise of tmnt) y el dibujo, está basado en la canción Bones de Imagine Dragons, ¡espero que les guste!

[sanyu-thewitch05]

Regardless of what the tweet says (I’m not about to get into flag discourse), I love the baby tees that came out of this.

These are from 1389woodliff.com

And the website is Black-owned. The owner is @/pocketfullof_posey on tiktok.

But-But!

I would love it if someone had a baby tee with the Gullah Geechee flag.

Like please, the colors are there. It would look so cool. Like look at this flag!

@queen-shiba

[purgatoire-noir]

so I picked out my hair for the first time since 2018…

when I tell you, the POWER I felt when I went out in public…

I felt like the Son of the Sun

[shawnthewonder]

I LOVE BLACK WOMEN!