St. John’s Eve 🐍🌈🌩🦪

Oxford American | Black Country: A Love Letter and Living Archive ⁦Oxford American⁩ oxfordamerican.org/web-only/black…

dress by tina knowles for the pink panther premiere in LA (2006)

I deeply desire a recorded version of this cover

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So sad to learn of the passing of Calvin Yarbrough, one-half of the iconic R&B duo Yarbrough & Peoples. He was 72. We will remember Calvin’s legacy through timeless hits like “Don’t Stop The Music.” Sending condolences to his wife, Alisa Peoples, family, friends & fans. RIP 🙏🏾🕊️

This is a Jean Carn appreciation post.

This is the sort of stuff I wish a rich person would step in and save. npr.org/2025/06/06/nx-…

Mentally preparing for the incoming heatwave 😎🙃 — Emma Amos, Baby, 1966. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchased jointly by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, with funds from the Painting and Sculpture Committee; and The Studio Museum in Harlem, Museum

I think about BeBe Moore Campbell a lot. She was such a good author who died way too early

That under examination is not accidental in spite of commercial success bands like WAR, Funkadelic, EWF, & Isley Bros were given NO SERIOUS EXAMINATION OR CRITICAL CONSIDERATION by The Rock Establishment like Rolling Stone In the 70’s at the height of their creative output.

“I would say that my sound is a romantic sound. It’s water. It’s ocean. It’s tranquility.” — Jon Lucien Remembering the Sensual Soul of Jon Lucien | SAVE A SEAT FOR ME (Simon & Schuster, 2026) #BlackMusicMonth medium.com/p/f99549894ec7

Ohio Players released Concept Albums - Pain. Pleasure. Ecstacy. Angel. Fire 🔥. They were given NO SERIOUS CRITICAL ANALYSIS of their Aesthetic. Their photographic imagery stands up to ANY OF THEIR PEERS IN ROCK. It was determined at some level that they were NOT TO BE SEEN.

portuguese love's postlude with rick james --

Which is precisely why people people should read Outside Literary Studies: Black Criticism and the University by Andy Hines

Gerald Horne discussing the Buffalo Soldiers (Clip is from our Sept. 2022 conversation on his book The Counter-Revolution of 1836: Texas Slavery & Jim Crow and the Roots of US Fascism) Full video linked below

Here is the full schedule for the Thursday through Sunday tribute marking the 100th birthday of Medgar Wiley Evers. mississippitoday.org/2025/06/23/sch…

Mira Nair on how Zohran Mamdani is responsible for Kal Penn being cast in The Namesake because he forced her to watch Harold and Kumar