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anotherafrica: Shades of Swagger #16 | Inner Light: Portraits of the Blind, Sierra Leone 1999-2003 by the late photographer Tim Hetherington. Tim Hetherington. Untitled, 1999–2003  From the series Inner Light: Portraits of the Blind, Sierra Leone 1999-2003. Courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery.

anotherafrica:

Shades of Swagger #16 | Inner Light: Portraits of the Blind, Sierra Leone 1999-2003 by the late photographer Tim Hetherington.

Tim Hetherington. Untitled, 1999–2003 
From the series Inner Light: Portraits of the Blind, Sierra Leone 1999-2003.

Courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery.

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lmao.

djcagedbird:

boredandmoist:

thecookiesareburning:

lindsaychrist:

i wont let this video die

refreshments

Wait is erykah badu the host? LOLz also this video is the best.

LMFAOOO

…the Negro thinks in hieroglyphics.

- Zora Neale Hurston

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Wendy is amazing. we-got-our-own: Wendy James Wendy James is an Afro Latina artist who makes films that aim to provoke a deeper understanding of the intersections between race, gender, and class in the U.S. and Latin America. She was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA, to parents from Central America. She has been writing, shooting, and directing films since 2005, earning a BFA at UCLA in 2007 and MFA in 2013. Her work has exhibited at film festivals, including the HBO International New York Latino Film Festival, and Orlando Hispanic Film Festival. “I feel like our voices are powerful and they can deconstruct our society…racial identity really influences our perspective and it creates a unique perspective.” (via)

Wendy is amazing.

we-got-our-own:

Wendy James

Wendy James is an Afro Latina artist who makes films that aim to provoke a deeper understanding of the intersections between race, gender, and class in the U.S. and Latin America. She was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA, to parents from Central America. She has been writing, shooting, and directing films since 2005, earning a BFA at UCLA in 2007 and MFA in 2013. Her work has exhibited at film festivals, including the HBO International New York Latino Film Festival, and Orlando Hispanic Film Festival.

“I feel like our voices are powerful and they can deconstruct our society…racial identity really influences our perspective and it creates a unique perspective.” (via)

I had the privilege of meeting and screening work alongside the incomparable Frances Bodomo last night. Her work is stunning, innovative, and fresh. She is a FORCE. we-got-our-own: Nuotama Frances Bodomo Nuotama Frances Bodomo is a Ghanaian filmmaker based in New York City. She grew up on four continents—in Ghana, Norway, California, and Hong Kong—before moving to New York to attend Columbia University as a Kluge Scholar. She received her B.A. in English Literature and Film Studies in 2010. Her thesis focused on making African-generated images part of the popular image of Africa. Her work features doppelgangers, imaginary friends, ventriloquist dummies, and the un-institutionalized crazies who constantly break society’s view of itself.Her ultimate goal is to make conceptually strong films that bring African images to the forefront. She is currently an MFA Candidate and Dean’s Fellow at NYU’s Graduate Film Program.

I had the privilege of meeting and screening work alongside the incomparable Frances Bodomo last night. Her work is stunning, innovative, and fresh. She is a FORCE.

we-got-our-own:

Nuotama Frances Bodomo

Nuotama Frances Bodomo is a Ghanaian filmmaker based in New York City. She grew up on four continents—in Ghana, Norway, California, and Hong Kong—before moving to New York to attend Columbia University as a Kluge Scholar. She received her B.A. in English Literature and Film Studies in 2010. Her thesis focused on making African-generated images part of the popular image of Africa. 

Her work features doppelgangers, imaginary friends, ventriloquist dummies, and the un-institutionalized crazies who constantly break society’s view of itself.Her ultimate goal is to make conceptually strong films that bring African images to the forefront. She is currently an MFA Candidate and Dean’s Fellow at NYU’s Graduate Film Program.

› : The Obamas Double Teamed That Ass

sonofbaldwin:

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The First Lady and the President of the United States have officially told all the Negroes that they are not here for your lazy, hoop-dreaming, rapper-fantasizing, video-game-addicted, blame-it-on-the-white-man, media-whorish asses. They are over your excuses and they don’t want to hear it…

Regram from @dwaanz. Tonight’s event was life affirming. I had a spectacular time!

Regram from @dwaanz. Tonight’s event was life affirming. I had a spectacular time!

I wonder if my super 8 still works? Pull a vintage stunt, keep the haters guessin’. Lmao.

I wonder if my super 8 still works? Pull a vintage stunt, keep the haters guessin’. Lmao.