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Jeremias Schultz, Portrait of a Lady Holding an Orange Blossom, mid-18th century.

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Erykah Badu by Instagram artist Kyès

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@creatorsofcolornet event 13: music ↳ 6 YEARS OF LEMONADE

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““One such entrepreneur was “Old Rachel,” a black woman who owned a cake shop in Bainbridge [Georgia]. She also operated a dance house on Saturdays for the “Kulud ladies.”””

— Green, 32

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Tessa Thompson, Danai Gurira & Chloe X Halle for Rodarte Fall/Winter 2018

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Black Code (co-edited by @jmjafrx and @NewBlackMan)

Delighted to share the latest special issue of the Black Scholar on the convergence of black studies and the digital humanities known as Black Code Studies–co-edited by Mark Anthony Neal and yours truly!

See below:

The Black Scholar is proud to announce the release of “Black Code,” a special issue of the Black Scholar. The guest editors, Jessica Marie Johnson and Mark Anthony Neal, have assembled a collective of digital soothsayers working on the margins of Black Studies, Afrofuturism, radical media, and the digital humanities. Black Code Studies is queer, femme, fugitive, and radical; as praxis and methodology, it waxes insurgent when the need arises. And in this moment, we are in need of Black digital insurgency, one attuned to racial scripts of the past even as it looks to future modes of Black thought and cultural production for inspiration. Barely scratching the surface, this issue welcomes new work and celebrates a Black digital fugitivity that has been present since the beginning of the internet. Our contributors include Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Lauren Cramer, Alessandra Raengo, Tara L. Conley, Ashleigh Wade, Aleia Brown, Joshua Crutchfield, Megan Driscoll, Ahmad Greene-Hayes, and Joy James, with an introduction from Jessica Marie Johnson and Mark Anthony Neal, and cover art from John Jennings celebrating Octavia Butler’s iconic novel Wild Seed.

Preview the introduction by Johnson and Neal, the co-editors, by following this link: http://ift.tt/Jvceu6toc/rtbs20/47/3?nav=tocList

We hope you enjoy the work as much as we enjoyed bringing this phenomenal group of scholars together! Hurray! It’s here!!!

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Jessica Marie Johnson is Assistant Professor of Africana Studies + History at Johns Hopkins University. Her work appears in Slavery & Abolition, The Black Scholar, Meridians: Feminism, Race and Transnationalism, and Debates in the Digital Humanities. Her research is on Atlantic slavery and diaspora, with a focus on women, gender, and sexuality. Contact: jmjohnso@gmail.com, @jmjafrx on Twitter.

Mark Anthony Neal is Professor of African + African-American Studies and English at Duke University, and the author of several including books Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic and Looking for Leroy: Illegible Black Masculinities. Neal directs the Center for Arts, Digital Culture and Entrepreneurship. Contact: dr-yogi@att.net, @NewBlackMan on Twitter.

via Diaspora Hypertext, the Blog http://ift.tt/2wmQaxI

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This FWoC/FWoAD decode brought to you by #Repost @afrosinsanjuan with @repostapp ・・・ "Esta peineta se la tumbé a un jevo en 1980. Se llamaba Elliott." •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• "I took this hair pick from an ex-boyfriend in 1980. His name was Elliott."

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This FWoC/FWoAd decode brought to you be the women of #UndergroundWGN #Repost @undergroundwgn with @repostapp ・・・ The women of #UndergroundWGN pay a powerful homage to the iconic Olympics moment at @nmaahc. 👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾#APeoplesJourney #NMAAHC Check out our Instagram Stories for more photos. 👆🏾

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Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, Honorary President of National Association; Miss Lulu Love, physical culture teacher in Washington; Miss Helene Abbott, President of St. Louis Woman's Club and kindergartner; Mrs. John R. Francis, prominent club woman and educator; Mrs. Sylvanie F. Williams, President of a Practical New Orleans Woman's Club. -     Date Issued: 1903    Place: Atlanta, Ga., Naperville, Ill. [etc.]    Publisher: J.L. Nichols & co.    Date Issued: 1902

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Miss Ella D. Barrier, teacher, also Secretary of Woman's Club in Washington, D.C.; Miss Emma Rose Williams, charming Creole teacher in New Orleans; Miss Hattie Gibbs, director of music in Washington public school; Mrs. J. Silone Yates, President of National Association, also teacher in Kansas City; Mrs. Hagdee Campbell, kindergarten teacher in St. Louis. -     Date Issued: 1903    Place: Atlanta, Ga., Naperville, Ill. [etc.]    Publisher: J.L. Nichols & co.    Date Issued: 1902

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Levee Loungers -  Group of African Americans on the levee - New Orleans, LA, 1888 Wilson, Edward L. (Photographer) Centennial Photographic Co. (Publisher)

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My Oba told me recently, some birds tried to swallow cotton seeds, and they choked. We, Black folks, are children of the cotton and we can’t be swallowed.

Shantrelle P. Lewis

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Ayana Jackson. Portraits in honor of African American women

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This FWoC/FWoAD decode by BGMB: #Repost @brwngirlsmuseblog with @repostapp ・・・ History tells us that we come from a tradition of folk making something out of nothing, making a way out of no way with the cards we've been dealt. ARTWORK: Whitfield Lovell, The Card Series II: The Rounds #BGMBfindyourspace

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This FWoC/FWoAD decode brought to you by the Amistad Research Center - #Repost @amistadresearchcenter with @repostapp ・・・ And the award for most #savage senior quote of the 20th century goes to Miss Vasstella “Lil’ Girl” Dennis, 1924 graduate of Snow Hill Normal & Industrial Institute. #yearbook #seniorquote