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I love drawing bubble braids now, by the way. New obsession don’t mind me

I love drawing bubble braids now, by the way. New obsession don’t mind me


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My newest illustration, Belinda Bloodflower. Can find the print and wares at my Redbubble shop  or S

My newest illustration, Belinda Bloodflower. 

Can find the print and wares at my Redbubble shop  or Society6 Shop


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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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If This Pig Could Talk  Black Lives Matter. Arrest cops that murder Black and Brown lives. Defund th

If This Pig Could Talk  

Black Lives Matter. Arrest cops that murder Black and Brown lives. Defund the police. Reinvest those funds into communities most affected by bad policing. Periodt.
 
 For the record I absolutely LOVE Kadir Nelson.
But why do I feel like he’s the only go-to Black cover artist The New Yorker hires? I know that’s not true, it just feels that way.
 
 So okay universe… I’m speaking this into existence!

https://alphacmt001.threadless.com/designs/if-this-pig-could-talk


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MJ Rodriguez It Girl. Ballroom Icon. Trans pioneer. LGBTQ advocate. Accomplished actress. Need I say

MJ Rodriguez

It Girl. Ballroom Icon. Trans pioneer. LGBTQ advocate. Accomplished actress. Need I say more?

Please support Black Queer Artists. Buy the shirt.

https://alphacmt001.threadless.com/designs/mj/mens/t-shirt/regular?color=gold


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Imagine over 700,000 jobs being lost to Covid-19. Imagine, as a result over 9 million people losing

Imagine over 700,000 jobs being lost to Covid-19. Imagine, as a result over 9 million people losing their health insurance.

In the middle of an pandemic.

Now imagine 9 million people demanding medicare for all. Not in a put yourself at risk of the virus protesting in the streets kind of way. No, something a bit more civilized.

Imagine Americans using social media as a tool. As a way to amplify their voices. Everyone now uninsured on FaceBook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Twitch, Snapchat, Whatsapp, YouTube, TikTok demanding MEDICARE 4 ALL? Not once. But over and over and over and over again. Not for a single day. Not for a week. But months.

What kind of effect would your collective voices have? Imagine finding out.

Imagine doing this as if your life depended on it. And if you’re Black or Latino? Imagine doing this because your life REALLY depended on it.

Because it does.


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Take it 2 the Bank[sy]Blue line pencils and inks, prepping my way for a new digital painting featuriTake it 2 the Bank[sy]Blue line pencils and inks, prepping my way for a new digital painting featuri

Take it 2 the Bank[sy]

Blue line pencils and inks, prepping my way for a new digital painting featuring street artist and contemporary artist phenom Banksy.


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