#blackamericana

[l10xfilm]

The 4 Elements of Omarion. Creative directed this shoot knowing that he could pull this concept off… 🌍🔥💨 🌊

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[trascapades]

💙 #ArtIsAWeapon

#Mood #BlueMonday

Shout out to singer Lizzo @lizzobeeating for bringing #artist #AnnieLee's iconic painting "Blue Monday" to life during her performance of "Break Up Twice" on @nbcsnl this past weekend. I love this reference to the "Black Americana" artist - a documentary on her life and career would be cool!

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Reposted from @nbaf As the musical guest on Saturday Night Live, Lizzo’s stage set and costume during her performance of “Break Up Twice” paid homage to Annie Lee’s painting “Blue Monday.”

Artist Annie Frances Lee was a Chief Clerk in the Engineering Department of a railroad. She passed on November 24, 2014 an internationally acclaimed artist and gallery owner known to art collectors the world over as "Annie Lee."

As an adult one Monday morning at five o'clock as Annie Lee tried to get it together, she came up with "Blue Monday." She wondered if anybody else felt as bad as she did having to go out on that cold winter morning to catch the bus to work. Annie Lee is a humorist and a realist and her style has been referred to as "#BlackAmericana."

Her works have been featured in "ER", Bill Cosby's spin-off show "A Different World" and Eddie Murphy's movies "Coming to America" and "Boomerang".

#Lizzo #SNL #SaturdayNightLive #MondayMood #BlueMonday #BlackArt #AfricanAmericanArt #BlackArtists #BlackWomenArtists #BlackGirlArtGeek #BlackArtLovers

[sistahscifi]

We love this @ebonymagazine cover featuring @nichellenicholsofficial!! Introduce the children in your life to this incredible woman with TO BOLDLY GO: HOW NICHELLE NICHOLS AND STAR TREK HELPED ADVANCE THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT by @AngelaDalton_Author and @byLaurenSemmer Reposted from @antique_black_things 1967 - Nichelle Nichols is one of the first Black women to cross the color line by portraying a central character that was not a domestic or nanny. 13-year-old Nichelle was a native of Chicago and had won a scholarship to Chicago’s Art Institute. She worked with oil and canvas. As a young adult, Ms. Nichols liked to sew her own clothes. She was following her dream to be a famous singer when she won the role of Lieutenant Uhura on Star Trek. Eventually, she was ready to leave Star Trek to pursue her dreams with her new husband and son, Kyle Johnson (who would become a star in Gordon Park’s motion picture, The Learning Tree). On hearing her plans to move on with her life, Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King asked her to stay on the show and continue as the role model for young Black women; she agreed to stay. After the show was over, Ms. Nichols devoted herself to recruiting minorities, girls and boys, into science programs and NASA. . #ebonymagazine#ebonymagazinecovers #beautifulwomenofcolor #NichelleNichols #blackisbeautifulmovement #blackactress #blackhistory #blackownedbusiness #blackamericana #blackpaper #blackephemera #blackmagazines #vintageblackactress #nichellenichols #lieutenantuhura #nyotauhura #uhura #legend #icon #actress #startrek #60stv #60smusic (at Sistah Scifi) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck11Qz9Pwap/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[greatpacificbooks]

Having a sale in my bookshop ebay store. 5% off ~ 4 Days ONLY! Please come have a look. Lots of great items for Holiday gift giving, even if that's for yourself. My shop at ebay https://www.ebay.com/str/maxrainet #books #eclectic #thriftshop #bookshop #toys #dolls #rarebooks #catalogs #teddybears #art #paintings #drawings #postcards #paper #ephemeral #muppets #cookbooks #childrensbooks #blackamericana #gullah #jouets #christmas #handmade #reading #enjoyment #Hanukkah #collectibles #oddlysatisfying #shopping #homedecor We believe in reading!

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[max-rainet]

Having a sale in my bookshop ebay store. 5% off ~ 4 Days ONLY!

Please come have a look.

Lots of great items for Holiday gift giving,

even if that's for yourself.

My shop at ebay https://www.ebay.com/str/maxrainet

#books #eclectic #thriftshop #bookshop

#toys #dolls #rarebooks #catalogs #teddybears #art #paintings #drawings #postcards #paper #ephemeral #muppets #cookbooks #childrensbooks #blackamericana #gullah #jouets #christmas #handmade #reading #enjoyment #Hanukkah #collectibles #oddlysatisfying #shopping #homedecor We beli#eve in reading! Read More! ~~~ > Great Pacific Books !! ~ Buy books, read, your personal library, book shop, reader, book buyers, bookseller, rare books, ephemeral, collectible, collector, book finders, shopping, hunting, have a great day to all our fellow book lovers ! ,

Support independent booksellers today!!

[premierestategallery]

Just in "Crying Ghetto" a 1973 Repousse in Copper and Brass by Gregory Ridley (1925-2004) - visit our shop link on this post for details www.bit.ly/CryingGhetto - #art #artwork #vintage #metalwork #sculpture #copper #brass #repousse #CryingGhetto #GregRidley #GregoryRidley #BlackAmericanArt #BlackAmericana #1970s #70style #popart #Sunday #Nashville #Tennessee https://www.instagram.com/p/B1CqtAcAMfu/?igshid=aogd6bllao9q

[jamscraftcloset]

I am starting to list my personal Black Americana Collection that I started when I was a teenager. Keep visiting JAMsCraftCloset.Com for new items being listed everyday. #blackamericana #blackamericanacollector #blackamericanacollection #kitchendecor #kitchen #saltshakers #peppershakers #antiques #history #pasthistory #jamscraftcloset #jamsreadingcloset #tpt #teacherspayteachers #shopify #etsy https://www.instagram.com/p/BoQEH_OHYAp/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1hnp8xrqvv141

[ayquebella]

Vintage African American Woman Sterling Silver Ring - Size 8 1/2

Wow! Wow! Wow! This is an absolutely stunning and massive, solid sterling silver ring of an African-American woman with an equally stunning Edwardian, Gibson Girl, topknot chignon hairstyle. This timeless ring depicts the beauty and grace contained in the profile of an African-American woman wearing her natural crown in all its glory. Her voluminous natural hair is meticulously sectioned and delicately twisted and/or coiled into a pinned back updo style atop her regal head. This type of high-dressed hairstyle was popular with women of the Edwardian and Victorian eras as it highlighted the volume and length of the wearer’s hair.

And look carefully at her features! She is clearly an African American beauty with an iconic, turn-of-the-century natural hairstyle. This naturalista is a perfect and on-point representative of the natural hair movement and this representation is deliberate and demonstrative in the lucid, visual artistry by the unnamed artisan.

This fantastic ring of Black Americana is coated with a very slight, almost undetectable, natural patina and is a bold and very attractive conversation starter as it displays from your finger. This ring shows very little signs of wear and aging considering its age (please see photos) and is an intentional statement of Black hair history and pride!

[tamekas-talk]

Viola Davis’ Black Americana Cover Shoot Directed By Regina King

Viola Davis’ Black Americana Cover Shoot for W magazine Directed By Regina King Now this is what we LOVE to see! Somebody over at W magazine understands allyship because they just went all out for Black Hollywood for their new Directors Issue. The magazine enlisted; none other than Regina King to do their “Black Americana” cover shoot featuring Viola Davis  and her beautiful family. They didn’t stop there though. A black woman, Brooke Marine, penned the accompanying article, and Andre D. Wagner — who did much of the photography for ‘Queen & Slim’, and happens to be the husband of current; (The Cut EIC & former Teen Vogue EIC Lindsay Peoples Wagner) took the photos for the shoot. The legendary Ruth E Carter styled this shoot — with the work of Carrie Mae Weems as a reference point. Y’all. This is amazing!! We hope the publishing AND fashion AND film worlds are watching because; THIS IS EXACTLY how it’s supposed to be done.

Viola Davis’ Black Americana

In the accompanying W magazine Cover story. Regina King details how she came up with the story behind the Black Americana shoot; by watching old interviews of Viola Davis where she could hear “the pain as well as the beauty in the bruises” in Davis’ delivery. Furthermore, King says Davis embodies her idea of Black Americana: “I don’t think any of us are particularly happy with the state of America. But we still embrace the fact that we are Black Americans; even with all of the things that have happened in history.”

The story King had the Davis/Tennon family enact, followed them from enjoying a Saturday afternoon at home before the adults head out for an evening on the town. The following morning the family head to church, but when they return home the mother receives a tragic phone call. King had Nina Simone playing when Wagner shot the heavier photos for the set.

Regina King recalls the music of legendary Nina Simone and the feelings it evokes:

“It’s sad, but we still have this thing about us as Black people that, while we have the burden. We believe in giving it to God, and that our spirits are or will eventually be freed. You feel the weight of the world, but you’re hearing Nina’s voice and what she’s saying, & somehow you believe it’s going to be okay.”

Regina King on how she felt like she prepared for becoming a director throughout her entire life:

“As an actor. I was paying attention & not really knowing why I was paying attention. Why I would stay behind, why I would be on set when it wasn’t even my scene. I didn’t really know why then, but I know now.”

Regina King on the importance of collaboration:

“I’m not really interested in being a part of something if it doesn’t feel collaborative, whether it is as a director, an actor, or a producer. By not wanting to include other people’s ideas, you could end up with something really unimaginative.”

Viola Davis explains that King’s insistence on capturing Black life in its totality was what drew her to participate in this project:

“There’s a life beyond the tragedy, there’s life even within the tragedy, and there was a life before the tragedy,” she said. “That you can be experiencing moments of joy when tragedy comes in and invades your life, and then it melts into something else. We understand that about life in general, but not always with Black folks in it. This is the first time I’ve ever done a photo shoot like this.”

Viola Davis laments on the continued racial stereotypes at play in Hollywood despite all the progress that’s been made:

“It becomes about reinterpreting who we are to either look better than what we are; more noble, more aesthetically beautiful in a sort of assimilationist realm, or it’s another version of Blackness that is downtrodden.”

Viola Davis recalls studio executives scoffing at the idea that she could be considered 'sexy enough', to have an attractive husband on How to Get Away With Murder:

“I feel like there is still a filter that we have to go through, and by the time you see us on-screen, we’ve become almost a Mr. Potato Head of who we actually are,” she continued. “You’ve got to snip out this part for white people because it’ll become an indictment. And then what’s left is a huge lie. An apologetic lie.” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Two women we love & admire . Both have achieved so much and are so deserving of every accolade they receive. We Stan.  BACK Read the full article

[recyclegoods]

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[vivianvintage8]

I would love to hear her story! Late tonight, I found myself perusing through Pinterest, looking at antique photos online. It calms me. One of my many favorite things to do. I also collect old photographs. Do you do something similar to relax? Minnie McDaniel | 1911 Holsinger Studio Collection, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA #blackamericana #blackamericans #africanamericanhistory #africanamericanwomen #edwardianfashion #edwardianstyle #antiquefashion #africanamericanwomen #lovelyvintage #vintagephoto #vintagephotography (at Vivian Vintage 8) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_WkFamgCBd/?igshid=19j0hahm2lqk9

[encoreaddict]

Vintage McCoy Black Americana Collectable 'Mammy' Ceramic String Holder. #vintage #EncoreAddict #poshmarkseller #poshmark #resale #reseller #shopmycloset #blackamericana #vintagehome #poshmarkboss #poshmarksales ##poshmarkambassador #poshmarkclub #poshmarklife #McCoy #poshlove https://www.instagram.com/p/B7T638SlWlx/?igshid=1099ju8hjokly

[prinsez05]

Poems of Cabin and Field by Paul Laurence Dunbar - illustrated with photographs by the Hampton Institute Camera Club and decorations by Alice Morse - Dodd, Meade & Co - New York - MDCCCXCIX (1899) ~ currently auctioning on eBay ~ see more pics in my shop ~ now available ~ PayPal accepted ~ available for pick-up or delivery from my work space with the assistance of my partner in pursuit of happiness @kerryserody 💪 eBay # 193252314645 #PaulLaurenceDunbar #blackamericana #poems #poetry #stockingstuffer #vintagebook #collectible #ebaystore #prop #vintage #vintageclothing #forsale #costumeshop #halloween #ebayseller #etsyseller (at Ridley Park, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6JLIVcn_h2/?igshid=o99agk30bb99

[giftideasfromaycaramba]

Vintage Black Butler Salt Shaker Handpainted Ceramic/Porcelain - Black Butler https://ebay.us/aLwUIB #finecollectibles #saltshakers #inthehome #blackamericana #collectibles https://www.instagram.com/p/BvGE_U0A-Wt/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1oijzrbtornti

[carolinaantiquemapsandprint-blog]

Happy Sunday everyone. Another wonderful etching by Alfred Hutty. 113 Tradd Street, back gates to the Swordgate house. Come see my wonderful collection of Hutty Etchings, drawings and watercolor here in the gallery! #alfredhutty #charlestonrenaissance #carolinaprints #blackamericana (at Catfish Row) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu2nMd4h33B/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=2wyk0ups73rh

[jamscraftcloset]

More Black Americana Salt and Pepper Shakers at JAMsCraftCloset.Com #blackamericana #blackamericanacollector #kitchendecor #kitchenware #kitchenideas #saltshakers #peppershakers #vintage #vintagesaltshakers #pasthistory #collector #jamscraftcloset #jamsreadingcloset #tpt #teacherspayteachers #shopify #etsy https://www.instagram.com/p/BoQHM73HagI/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1x3tqnbnf7jjw