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Excellence #6 (2020)  //  Image Comics

Spencer Dales has one purpose: tear down the Aegis and free everyone under their “protection.” However, with his closest ally in prison and the Tenth looking to put Spence in an adjoining cell, creating a better future won’t be easy. But it needs to happen NOW.

by Brandon Thomas and Emilio Lopez, Khary Randolph

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Call Me by My Rightful Name  (2004)

A young African American (Otis Hampton) falls into periodic spasms and chants a text nobody understands. His troubled family seeks help. The text, recorded by a psychiatrist and deciphered by linguists, is found to be a corrupted family chant from the Yoruba of Nigeria. The doctor advises a trip to that ethnic region. The spiritual voices that have been summoning Otis finally bring him, after some alarming experiences in the journey from America through the Nigerian hinterland, to the very spot where his ancestor was enslaved over a century before. The recorded chant helps to locate the man’s surviving kin nearby. Otis is persuaded to remain in the village for nearly two years, during which, despite the resurgence of old antagonisms towards his family, he learns the language and culture of the place and joins in completing the rites his ancestor was performing when he was captured by slavers. Armed with a recovered identity and a chastened wisdom in African culture, Otis finally returns to the U.S. to play his part in the civil rights struggle of the time (the 1960s).

by Isidore Okpewho (Author)

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Isidore Okpewho teaches at the State University of New York, Binghamton. He has published numerous works on African oral literature and three novels, the latest of which, Tides, won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa in 1993. In Call Me By My Rightful Name, the scholar of oral traditions and the novelist enjoy a skillful union.

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DC & Marvel Black Super Heroes by @LucianoVecchio 

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Stompin’ at the Savoy (1992)

As the Harlem Renaissance flourishes in jazzy New York City, Esther (Lynn Whitfield), Dorothy (Vanessa Bell Calloway), Pauline (Vanessa Williams) and Alice (Jasmine Guy) struggle to survive. By day, they toil at dreary jobs, dreaming of stardom, riches and happiness. By night, they dance their troubles away at the famous Savoy Ballroom. But when World War II appears on the horizon, the girls find their fortunes unfolding too unevenly to reconcile, and they inevitably begin to drift apart.

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Nanci Rossov directs this cross-cultural drama about captured Native Americans enrolled in a turn of the century “Negro” college. The film opens with Richard (Chuma Hunter-Gault) and Cleola (Tembi Locke) announcing their engagement. Though the college prides itself on its integrationist philosophy, the sharp-witted Cleola soon chafes under Richard’s and the school’s patronizing attitudes toward women. Meanwhile, three Lakota braves are accepted into the school at the behest of a U.S. Army officer who wants to prove that Indians can function in mainstream culture. The trio’s reluctance to participate is more and more pronounced as their upwardly mobile Black classmates antagonize them with racial asides. Unbowed won Best Feature at the 1999 American Indian Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi 

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Fire Shut Up in My Bones (2015)

Charles M. Blow’s mother was a fiercely driven woman with five sons, brass knuckles in her glove box, and a job plucking poultry at a factory near their segregated Louisiana town, where slavery’s legacy felt close. When her philandering husband finally pushed her over the edge, she fired a pistol at his fleeing back, missing every shot, thanks to “love that blurred her vision and bent the barrel.” Charles was the baby of the family, fiercely attached to his “do-right” mother. Until one day that divided his life into Before and After—the day an older cousin took advantage of the young boy. The story of how Charles escaped that world to become one of America’s most innovative and respected public figures is a stirring, redemptive journey that works its way into the deepest chambers of the heart.

by Charles Blow (Author)

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CHARLES M. BLOW has been a columnist at the New York Times since 2008 and has appeared on MSNBC, CNN, Fox New, the BBC, Al Jazeera, and HBO. He lives in Brooklyn with his three children.

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- Space Cowboy .19′

- Ph/sty : Emmanuel Monsalve &  Alexander-Julian Gibbson

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- Yara Sá . Sao Paulo, Brazil 18′

Ph. Eduardo Rezende

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Stunning. The Legendary Ruby Dee photographed by Carl Van Vechten in Harlem on September 25, 1962.