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Fashion and identity: Spiffy gents in 1920’s Harlem

When black men dress well, stand out immediately.

Eduardo Orozco

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Two marines walking down a street in Harlem, New York, 1943. Photograph by Roger Smith.

Harry Smith - legendary eccentric and compiler of the de-facto bible for American Folk music follows, the six volume Anthology of American Folk Music from 1962. 

Great little story and animation. Love this.

What are you reading this Black History Month? Here are 2 books from 18MR’s BLACK HISTORY MONTH READING LIST FOR ASIAN AMERICANS:

Taz says Bengali Harlem documents a time in history when “..Bengali Muslims were sneaking into the country by jumping off ships and into America’s most iconic neighborhoods of color, from Tremé in New Orleans to Detroit’s Black Bottom, from West Baltimore to Harlem.”

Bianca on Killing the Black Body - “Even though this was first published in 1997, two decades later it is still a relevant and critical text in understanding America’s systemic abuse of Black Women’s bodies and the exclusion of Black women’s reproductive needs in mainstream feminist and civil rights agendas.”

Illustrations by Bianca Nozaki-Nasser