#black artists
Representation matters: all 54 characters together! Can you name them all? • by @msartsyace
I’ve posted both of these individually but I took a bit of time to digitally merge them together into one big comp! This is hands down my favorite art piece I’ve ever done.
Interesting fact: 4 of these characters were played by Samuel L Jackson and 3 of them were voiced by Phil Lamarr, something I only realized after I completed these drawings.
Reblogging this because it’s still my favorite drawing I’ve done yet
Finn • The Star • XVII
Starting a new art series focusing on some of my favorite Black characters!
The Lost Love by Fenton Johnson
I have spent a long time thinking about my blog. In light of the protests in the US and around the world, I don’t feel comfortable carrying on as usual. I’m trying to do my part by signing petitions, donating money, and working as a technical assistant to workshops on recognizing and unlearning racism. However, I’m still not sure what I should do with my blog. I just stopped posting because I didn’t feel like it was an appropriate time to post my own content but I also feel like I should be using my platform in this time. I’ve decided to continue posting but in a new format. I usually caption my photos with a quote and I have decided to use this space to highlight writers of the Harlem Renaissance. The following excerpt, describing the Harlem Renaissance, is taken from the Poetry Foundation.
“In the 1920’s, creative and intellectual life flourished within African American communities in the North and Midwest regions of the United States, but nowhere more so than in Harlem. The New York City neighborhood, encompassing only three square miles, teemed with black artists, intellectuals, writers, and musicians. Black-owned businesses, from newspapers, publishing houses, and music companies to nightclubs, cabarets, and theaters, helped fuel the neighborhood’s thriving scene. Some of the era’s most important literary and artistic figures migrated to or passed through “the Negro capital of the world,” helping to define a period in which African American artists reclaimed their identity and racial pride in defiance of widespread prejudice and discrimination.
The origins of the Harlem Renaissance lie in the Great Migration of the early 20th century, when hundreds of thousands of black people migrated from the South into dense urban areas that offered relatively more economic opportunities and cultural capital. It was, in the words of editor, journalist, and critic Alain Locke, “a spiritual coming of age” for African American artists and thinkers, who seized upon their “first chances for group expression and self-determination.” Harlem Renaissance poets such as Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, and Georgia Douglas Johnson explored the beauty and pain of black life and sought to define themselves and their community outside of white stereotypes.
Poetry from the Harlem Renaissance reflected a diversity of forms and subjects. Some poets, such as Claude McKay, used culturally European forms—the sonnet was one––melded with a radical message of resistance, as in “If We Must Die.” Others, including James Weldon Johnson and Langston Hughes, brought specifically black cultural creations into their work, infusing their poems with the rhythms of ragtime, jazz, and blues.”
Amanda Reifer - Crazy
Amanda Reifer – Crazy
Positioning herself for a major breakthrough, bold and buzzing Bajan singer and songwriter Amanda Reifer reveals her new single “Crazy” today.
Listen to “Crazy” HERE
Bright keys underpin the bouncy production of the track as her voice sails over a head-nodding groove on a hypnotic island-inflected refrain. The song showcases yet another side of this dynamic force of nature, breaking boundaries…
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