#african children

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Turkana boy and his camel

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Capturing a moment in African children's young lives!

In a calm and stunning way by! ... fotografia de criancas

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Kids Share Films

Storytelling and the Arts for Social Change Below are short films and a music video created by Wari Om & Matt Dec for Kids Share Workshops. Wari filmed and directed Sophie Beem’s “GLOW,” among the other videos produced during a Kids Share Zambia workshop celebration. GLOW was created for the children and community working with Kids Share Zambia and was shared during our final celebration when…

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Swalidubclub riddim 2023 feat Jah franco, Ansone, Jah bless, Reggie amma, simon splinta, John Marcus is now live on most plateform

African children-Jah Franco-France

The creator and the creation -AnsOne-Holland

Only the fitess-John Marcus-Dominica

Trodding the road-Jah bless-Jamaica

World a go end -reggie amma- Jamaica

Daily Psalms -simon splinta- Jamaica

Now available original/dub 12 tracks

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06/16/2022 is International Day of the African Child, Corpus Christi, National Career Nurse Assistants Day, National Fudge Day, National Dump the Pump Day, Clean Air Day, International Day of Family Remittances.

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Black love

The artist is @indaviduall on Instagram.

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Hi! It seems like fireworks and firecrackers were a very common item in Santa letters, to the extent that they’re often thrown in at the end along with fruit like a ‘default’ Santa gift. If you know, why and when did fireworks stop being a go-to present for kids to ask from Santa?

This is actually something I keep meaning to dig into more.

It was almost exclusively a Southern practice (particularly in the Deep South), but was so universal there that it's honestly more unusual for Southern kids to NOT ask for fireworks than to ask for them. I'm not sure if there were cultural aspects to this or was just because it makes more sense to give them where it's actually warm enough to shoot them off.

They seem to have been given primarily as a stocking-stuffers, as they are almost always listed alongside the standard fruit, nuts and candy.

From what I've seen, requests for fireworks dropped off sharply in the early 60s, though I as of yet haven't found any convincing reason as to why.

That's a bit early to coincide with the general shift away from little boys asking for firearms, which seems (from my observations at least) to be largely correlated with the advent of video games in the 70s and 80s.

It's possible it may have been a natural result of child safety standards evolving beyond the 'sure, give your six-year-old explosives, what's the worst that could happen?' that seems to have been the dominant attitude for the first half of the 20th century.

If anyone from the South has any insight on this I'd love to hear it.

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Portrait of Daniel, Singleton and Imogene Cole, children of soprano Madame Maggie Porter-Cole. Printed on front: "Millard, 224 & 226 Woodward Ave., Detroit." Handwritten on back: "Cole, Maggie Porter. Daniel, Singleton and Imogene Cole, children of Mrs. Maggie L. Porter-Cole."

E. Azalia Hackley Collection of African Americans in the Performing Arts, Detroit Public Library

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Winslow Homer (1836-1910) "Dressing for the Carnival" (1877) Oil on canvas Realism Located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, United States In this Reconstruction-era painting, Homer evokes the dislocation and endurance of African American culture that was a legacy of slavery. The central figure represents a character from a Christmas celebration known as Jonkonnu, once observed by enslaved people in North Carolina and, possibly, eastern Virginia. Rooted in the culture of the British West Indies, the festival blended African and European traditions. After the Civil War, aspects of Jonkonnu were incorporated into Independence Day events; the painting’s original title was Sketch—4th of July in Virginia. The theme of independence was particularly relevant in 1877, when emancipated Black Americans in the South saw an end to their brief experience of full civil rights with the final withdrawal of federal troops.

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Kwame Brathwaite (1 January 1938 – 1 April 2023)

Throughout his six-decade career, Brathwaite harnessed the power of photography to recalibrate the public understanding of Blackness.  

Brathwaite, who was largely inspired by the teachings and writings of Marcus Garvey and Carlos Cooks, held a 60-year photography career that popularized the “Black is Beautiful” movement in the 1960s and continued to empower African and African-American cultural expression and achievements throughout his lifetime.

"Untitled (Kwame Brathwaite Self Portrait at AJASS Studios)" (c. 1964, printed 2016), archival pigment print (all images courtesy the Kwame Brathwaite Archive),

“Untitled (Garvey Day, Deedee in Car)” (c. 1965, printed 2018), archival pigment print,

ikolo Brathwaite wearing a helmet designed by Carolee Prince, Ajass, Harlem, circa 1968,

Kwame Samori Brathwaite playing with Baba's bag, Harlem, circa 1975,

James Brown plaque outside the Apollo Theater, Harlem, circa 1962,

Children on swings, Harlem, circa 1971,

Children playing with slingshots, Harlem, circa 1971.

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Boys playing “king of the mountain” on jungle gym, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1974.

Jeanne Pitre Soileau - Yo’ Mama, Mary Mack, and Boudreaux and Thibodeaux: Louisiana Children's Folklore and Play (2016)

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Join Our Team

Storytelling and the Arts for Social Change Kids Share Volunteers and contracted professionals direct the workshops. We work with other nonprofit organizations that support youth empowerment, positively impacting lives and communities around the world. Some of the locations we reach are remote and lack modern amenities. We feel that traditional paperback books, films, and social media are…

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Children of the Sea, made for Blacktober 2021.

This was a really quick redraw I did, but I'm glad I was able to make something like this for a series I really enjoy.

WIPs & side-by-side below:

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