Carmen de Lavallade: 94 years of LIFE. Thank you for letting your inner light shine so brightly, developing your talents to levels of excellence and sharing your gifts with the world. May your soul eternally dance to the mystic music of the universe 💃🏾🎶✨❤️🙏🏾

Beautiful photography in Barbados’ Morgan Lewis area: winding dirt roads lined by majestic coconut palm trees, with interlocking hills covered in lush vegetation in the background. Photo: Reg Wilson #RegWilson #CaribbeanPhotography #BarbadosPhotography #JusCoolNYC

NY jazz memories Left to right: George Braith : on the original Braithophone Cindy Blackman: drums Tommy Turrintne: trumpet Photo: ? Circa 1980s, midtown Manhattan NY

“I consider jazz a life force.” ~ Nat Hentoff Photo: Robin Holland

Tired By Langston Hughes I am so tired of waiting, Aren’t you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind? Let us take a knife And cut the world in two - And see what worms are eating At the rind. -——————— Langston Hughes (1901-1967)

Restored and colorized photographs of Brazilian victims of slavery, circa 1869. Photos: Alberto Henschel Colorization: Marina Amaral

Restored and colorized photographs of Brazilian victims of slavery, circa 1869. Photos: Alberto Henschel Colorization: Marina Amaral

“We have it in our power to begin the world over again. “- Thomas Paine

Olu Dara, musician, jazz trumpeter, and father of Nas bka Nasir Bin Olu Dara, celebrates his 85th birthday anniversary. Photos: Annie Leibovitz Gap Holiday 2012 campaign. The father-son ads were entitled “Fatherly Love”.

“Stop changing who you are for people who don’t even know who they are”

Remembering Afro-Puerto Rican Brotha Arturo Schomburg, pivotal intellectual figure of the Harlem Renaissance, historian, writer, curator, activist & archivist whose personal collection of art, books, photos, ephemera & slave letters founded what is now known as SchomburgCenter

Steelband history of Trinidad & Tobago: The MerryMakers Steel Orchestra Sponsor: Texaco Taken Photographer: ? Source: 1963 Trinidad & Tobago photo diary book Location: Trinidad Hilton In 1960 they released “Makin’ Merry” on Cook Records, catalog number Cook-925

NVIDIA named its next-gen Blackwell AI chip after David Harold Blackwell, a pioneering mathematician & statistician. The Blackwell GPU (B100/B200) honors his groundbreaking contributions to probability theory, game theory & information theory—fields foundational to modern AI.

David Blackwell (1919–2010) was a pioneering scholar, becoming the first Black academic inducted into the National Academy of Sciences (1965) and the first Black tenured professor at UC Berkeley. #DavidHaroldBlackwell #GameOfGenius #GoundingFatherOfAI

David Harold Blackwell’s work on the Rao-Blackwell theorem and dynamic programming is fundamental to machine learning and reinforcement learning, which powers modern generative AI. GAME OF GENiUS: the David Blackwell Story. Concept Trailer 10/29/2025 vimeo.com/1131622067