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Celebrating Brett's 50th Birthday with good music!!!

Bumpin' Jazz Funk mix

A bunch of jazzy tunes with a couple of tracks produced by brett from boundless in between. Enjoy.

Hut Strut Roots Reggae mix

Heavy Roots Reggae. In the tradition of Cosmic Love Sounds, Atlanta, GA, live at The Hut!!

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Celebrating Black History Month

For all you primary education instructors looking to introduce the topic of Black History Month to your students, we bring you the Coretta Scott King Award-winning The Palm of My Heart: Poetry by African American Children, published in 1996 by Lee & Low Books Inc. in New York. This publication of twenty poems is the result of editor Davida Adedjouma’s “Writing Between the Lines” workshops with kids ages 8-14 years from the Inner City Youth League and the African-American Academy for Accelerated Learning (AAAL), both located in Minnesota. Our copy is a first edition in our Historical Curriculum Collection, and contains an introduction by American poet and educator Lucille Clifton, a note from editor Davida Adedjouma, and illustrations by American children’s-book author and illustrator Gregory Christie.

 “…each of the poems in this dazzling collection resounds with the captivating rhythms of life, as seen through the eyes of African American children,” says Adedjouma. In her introduction, Lucille Clifton, Poet Laureate of Maryland, 1979-1985 and recipient of the National Book Award, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, and the Robert Frost Medal, speaks on her own experience of Blackness, “How wonderful to have come through that [being “a girl, back in the dim late thirties and forties”] to this; to this measure of young people and the treasury of their words. Here dark is equated with wonderful and Black with joy!”

This description of African American children celebrating what it means to be Black, is reflected in the words of Felicia Renee Brazil, Shannon Chavers, and Lauren Crisler, respectively:

Black is dark, / dark is lovely, / lovely is the palm of my heart / and my heartbeats are filled with joy.

Black history flows / through our veins / like blood.

Black spirit turns and churns / it is energetic and eternal.

View more of our Black History Month posts.

⁠–Isabelle, Special Collections Undergraduate Writing Intern

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Home in America by Analog Players Society ft. Masts Ace.

This video sums up America’s present situation by reflecting back on its historical racial conflicts and unresolved promises of freedom, justice and equality. GREAT WORK. Take a look!!

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North Carolina history! 3rd North Carolina Volunteer Infantry, 1899.

Capt. Thomas L. Leatherwood

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WE DO HISTORY! Join us virtually for Douglass Day 2022, Monday February 14. Learn about Black History by collectively transcribing “unprocessed” historical documents w/ the Colored Conventions Project. No experience necessary, ALL are welcome. Edutainment & Fun. #douglassday #BlackHistoryMonth 

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TOP FIVE 2021 African American Fine Art Auction Items - Swann Galleries

This video is a roundup of my TOP FIVE Notable lots of the 2021 Swann Galleries African American Fine Art Auction. It includes artwork created by Hale Woodruff, Nelson Stevens, Kara Walker, Howardena Pindell and Richmond Barthe.

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Josep Tapiró Baró (1836-1913) “A Tangerian Beauty” (c. 1891) Watercolor on paper Located in the Dahesh Museum of Art, New York City, New York, United States

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Friends, Accountability and Perspective - Pt 1

Please enjoy our debut podcast episode including a personal conversation during a trip to L.A. on friends, accountability and perspective.

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Check out an awesome podcast on personal development and wellness by my ❤️ and partner Thommie!! LAUNCH TODAY 6PM - TUNE IN on YouTube, Spotify and other podcasting platforms!!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWe6yzz__jWss2JP27SYOLg

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TOP FIVE 2021 Printed Manuscript African Americana Auction Items - Swann Galleries

This video is a roundup of the TOP FIVE Highe$t Priced sold lots of the 2021 Swann Galleries Printed Manuscript African Americana Auction. It covers items related to Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Katherine Dunham, Harlem Rennaisance writers, Benjamin Banneker and early hip-hop artists.

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Born from the Black arts era collective which created the impressive cultural legacy which continues today, is the International Afrikan Arts Festival.  It is a 4-day outdoor festival, held in Brooklyn, NY, comprised of an Afrikan Marketplace, various musical and theatrical talents and a reputation that brings summer-goers wishing to congregate and associate positively out into the festivities.

African Street Festival 1990 Si Mange (We are One), pinback button, 1990.

This button is from the 1990 Afrikan Street Festival aka "The East", which was a unforgettable event.  The lead-up to the Festival was Nelson Mandela's

My teen years occurred in the midst of significant Pan-African cultural and political flux.  A global demand for divestment from South Africa's apartheid regime played a favorable part towards the release of African National Congress co-founder Nelson Mandela in 1990.  Oh, an era whence comes the debut of an African-American entertainer who then chose the name Queen Latifah.  This pinback button was distributed at the 19th annual African Street Festival(The East)  in Brooklyn, just  a week after Nelson Mandela first visited Bed-Stuy blocks.  

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Your Buggy Maker

Found in Journal of National Medical Association

1909

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Former congressional staffers reveal best practices for making Congress listen.