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Images of the Real ‘The Get Down.’  Jamel Shabazz Chronicles the Early Days of Hip-hop.

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Huey P. Newton, co-founder of the Black Panther Party photographed by Lee Lockwood in his penthouse, 1972.

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“In patriarchal culture, all males learn a role that restricts and confines. When race and class enter the picture, along with patriarchy, then black males endure the worst impositions of gendered masculine patriarchal identity.”

— bell hooks

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Larger breast bras vs. smaller breast bras

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Martin Luther King speaking with Harry Belafonte about what he saw as the next big step in the Civil Rights Movement.

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Martin Luther King on Poverty

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Amazing!

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Lupita Nyong’o is a descendant of Eve…👀👸🏾✨

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Carmen explains that she’s her own woman in Carmen Jones (1954). For her performance in this role, Dorothy Dandridge became the first African-American woman nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.

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Dorothy Dandridge in Life Magazine (1954)

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Dorothy Dandridge as Bess in the film Porgy and Bess (1959). 

(Photos by Gjon Mili/The LIFE Picture Collection)

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