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The Wiz is a 1978 re-imagining of L. Frank Baum’s classic 1900 children’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz featuring an all-black cast.
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Thriller Poster
From his AKAI Mini gifted by Flying Lotus, to the Michael Jackson-approved mic picked up in Hollywood, we go behind the scenesonsevendavisjr‘s debut album, ‘Universes’. - via ThingLink
Photograph by Marc Sethi
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Things I Read This Week… and Last Week
So last week was the longest week ever, but it still didn’t allow me enough time to finish my post, so I’m combining two weeks in one. Except here I am at the end of the
secondlongest week ever, again, and Daylight Savings Time has zapped any energy I had, Starbucks’ stock has probably risen because I’m basically mainlining espresso at this point, and even though I’m not particularly busy at work…
Hero Complex Gallery presents ’Covers’, a group art exhibition where the artists reimagine book, comic, movie, vinyl cover art.
On view now through Hero Complex Gallery.
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Michael Jackson photographed by Michael Putland while attending a press conference for The Jackson 5 Tour in New York City, NY - 1984
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John Singleton and his muse Janet Jackson filming Poetic Justice in California during the L.A Riots in April of 1992. Despite her privilege Poetic Justice amplified Janet’s interest in learning more about herself and what it meant to be an African American woman in America. This was the genesis of her tracing her roots and grounding herself in more political songs (“New Agenda feat Chuck D”)
John Singleton spoke on where Janet Jackson came up with the concept for her now iconic braids in an interview with Essence recently:
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