#RedHookSummer

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Red Hook Summer || 2012

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🕊🙏🏿🎭#ArtIsAWeapon Peaceful Journeys to Tony-nominated stage, screen and television #actor #ThomasJeffersonByrd. He played so many memorable roles, especially in @officialspikelee films. Very sad to learn of his passing last weekend at age 70. Sending condolences to his family, friends, colleagues and fans.

(Swipe ⬅️) #Art and caption reposted from #artist @keefcross: As soon as I heard the news, I started sketching...

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Like all of us, there were many sides to my father-in-law, Thomas Jefferson Byrd, most know him from his impeccable stage and screen work, I also know and admire that side.

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The side that I knew personally was a man of Grace, generosity, Elegance and intelligence.

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A man that, as a person, was much more intriguing than any of the characters I had seen him portray on screen.

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With already enough children of his own, he welcome me into the Byrd tribe with surprisingly open and loving arms.

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A huge supporter of the arts, he always pumped me full of confidence about my own work and supported me whenever the opportunity arose... even appearing in our little Dayblack film...

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The first time that I drew Thomas Jefferson Byrd, I didn't know him, but I was a fan of his work, especially from him portraying Errol Barnes in one of my favorite films Clockers...

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When I drew him then, I was a fan...when I draw him now I'm family.

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Rest in Peace

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#thomasbyrd #EndGunViolence #BlackStorytellers #spikelee #clockers #setitoffmovie

#MaRaineysBlackBottom #GetOnTheBus #HeGotGame #Bamboozled #ChiRaq #RedHookSummer #aspikeleejoint #TraScapades #ArtIsAWeapon #BlackGirlFilmGeeks

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#RedHookSummer Most Powerful Movie I've Seen In A Long Time. (Taken with Instagram)

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The travel stories we liked and clicked this week:

     • Spike Lee is bringing it back to Brooklyn with his latest movie, Red Hook Summer, which premiers today in the U.S.

     •  The Guardian knows how much music means to you and me, so earlier this month it released its Six Songs of Me mixtape project.

     •  The London 2012 Olympics has proven this summer to be a lucrative one for Jamaica, which recently celebrated 50 years of Independence and won three silver, three gold and three bronze olympic medals, including two of Usain Bolt's big wins.

     •  We know what you like to do in hotel rooms, as does Damson Dene Hotel in Windermere, England, where copies of the bible in each guestroom have been replaced with E.L. James's well-endowed Fifty Shades of Grey.

     •  We're amping up our hispter swag with Grove's new personalized Moleskin notebook covers.