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My ♥️ beats notes 🎼 (scales), drums🪘, chords, keys 🎹 , strings🪕🎸, horns 🎺 🎷, and vocal 🗣️sound… 🎼…music.
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😂🤣 Had to pick up the📱& let ‘em know how good his mix was 🤗
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Open Culture
about 9 hours ago
The History of Jazz Visualized on a Circuit Diagram of a 1950s Phonograph: Features 1,000+ Musicians, Artists, Songwriters and Producers
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The History of Jazz Visualized on a Circuit Diagram of a 1950s Phonograph: Features 1,000+ Musicians, Artists, Songwriters and Producers
The danger of enjoying jazz is the possibility of letting ourselves slide into the assumption that we understand it. To do so would make no more sense than believing that, say, an enjoyment of listeni...
https://www.openculture.com/2022/11/the-history-of-jazz-visualized-on-a-circuit-diagram-of-a-1950s-phonograph.html
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Jon Hawke
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Stood at Cwrt Dafydd farm, south of Margam, where they were found reused to form a footbridge across a stream. They are known as 'cart-wheel' crosses, and so named from the radial form of the cross head, like the wheels of a cart. 10thC. 📸My own
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@AuthorMsBev
about 15 hours ago
Family got together at J9 Cookie Design yesterday and did cookies. My niece did these. Can you tell she’s an artist?? We had a great time.
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Alison Fisk
about 19 hours ago
Exquisite Roman glass cup signed by master glassmaker ‘Ennion’. AD 30-70. Ennion was the first glassmaker to ‘brand’ his work by incorporating his name into the mould’s design, some 2000 years ago! Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Adria 📷 Leonardo.disimone
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Seeing & watching the little ones mind, eyes & spirit fill with wonder & glee during this holiday space fills me with such joy & happiness.😍 I know it doesn’t last but man while they still “believe” it’s awesome.
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Anita Sagastegui Photography (she/her)
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Beautiful Napali Coast
#Scape
#Kauai
#Hawaii
#landscapephotography#naturephotography
#landscapes
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#mountainscape
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Mayor Cooley
about 16 hours ago
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How the Ancient Greeks Built Their Magnificent Temples: The Art of Ancient Engineering
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How the Ancient Greeks Built Their Magnificent Temples: The Art of Ancient Engineering
Doric, Ionic, Corinthian: these, as practically everyone who went through school in the West somehow remembers, are the three varieties of classical column. We may still recall them, more specifically...
https://www.openculture.com/2025/07/how-the-ancient-greeks-built-their-magnificent-temples.html
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SelfMajestic
about 17 hours ago
grateful in the highest to The Creator for continuing to breathe Life into my physical form
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I watched Mississippi Masala last night & even after so many years, I was filled with such giddiness. Denzel & Sarita captured the sweet subtly of burgeoning love so well! The other themes of the move still ring true, but alas love❤️🤗 Such a good film!
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Chico Escuela
about 21 hours ago
Jimi Hendrix Performing At The Newport Festival, 1969, photographed by Ted Kessel.
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KEW
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The National Center for Civil and Human Rights' new gallery, "Broken Promises," is a permanent exhibit on Reconstruction-the period after the Civil War and Emancipation when America first attempted to build a multi-racial democracy.
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New Reconstruction Era Exhibition Shows How Reform and Resistance Have Shaped U.S. Civil Rights
National Center for Civil and Human Rights Unveils Broken Promises Gallery "Guided" by Ida B. Wells
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KEW
about 22 hours ago
What Our Food Remembers
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We explore the deep cultural roots and modern meaning of the holiday foods Black Americans gather around.
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What Our Food Remembers | Black Issues Forum
YouTube video by PBS North Carolina
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I wore this out! 🥰 MJB- Queen of the remix 🫡
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Albumism
about 22 hours ago
Mary J. Blige released ‘What's the 411? Remix’ 32 years ago on December 7, 1993 | Listen to the album + revisit our tribute here:
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KEW
about 22 hours ago
What Black Burial Grounds Teach Us About Healing and Remembrance
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Restoring and preserving burial grounds is an act of recognition, respect, and reconciliation that helps communities nationwide confront and honor the histories long denied to African-descended peoples.
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What Black Burial Grounds Teach Us
Preserving these spaces is an act of recognition, respect, and reconciliation.
https://wordinblack.com/2025/12/what-black-burial-grounds-teach-us-about-healing-remembrance/
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Open Culture
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How Jazz Became the “Mother of Hip Hop”
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How Jazz Became the “Mother of Hip Hop”
Jazz and hip hop have been in a lively conversation in recent years, breaking new ground for both forms, as the work of artists like Kendrick Lamar and his collaborators amply shows.
https://www.openculture.com/2021/02/how-jazz-became-the-mother-of-hip-hop.html
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2 days ago
Susanna Bauer, “Adjustment IV” (2025)
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Paschal, or "Pasch"..(it sounds like cash)
2 days ago
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Him Hardaway Sr
2 days ago
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My 2 favorite parts! 🤗🥰 The bridge & the adlib after 🎶Yooou don’t have to say a word, you don’t hafta say-a-word!🎶
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NBA
2 days ago
The Celtics lead the Lakers 69-46 heading into halftime. Jaylen Brown: 11 PTS, 5 REB, 4 AST Derrick White: 11 PTS, 2 REB, 4 AST, 3 3PM Gabe Vincent: 12 PTS, 2 3PM Austin Reaves: 12 PTS, 6 AST, 2 3PM Watch 2Q on Prime:
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Miss Mimi
2 days ago
Agree! Like a love map. And also, for me she represented the epitome of adulthood.
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For me- as a kid it was the definitive experience through the journey of love- good, bad & in between. 🥹
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Syd Carpenter is behind these bulbous, creature-like beings that simultaneously seem alive and inanimate. Through clay, she explores nature, African American history, and the land.
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Welcoming the weekend 🫶🏾 Staying warm in thoughts, spirits & temperature 🤗
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Him Hardaway Sr
3 days ago
sinethemba makhosi, zwelethu machepha, 2020
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If you want me to stay Skin I’m in Babies making babies Frisky
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Rock The Bells
3 days ago
How many y’all remember this? 🎄https://rockthebells.com/news/christmas-rap-holiday-compilation
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Christmas Rap: Hip-Hop's First Holiday Compilation
'Christmas Rap', released by Profile Records is Hip-Hop's first holiday compilation
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Libby App
3 days ago
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#Bookish
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10 holiday hacks from the library to get you in the spirit & save money | Libby Life: Blog, Podcast, Book Clubs & More.
Let your library help you stay festive and frugal this season with these tips for making the most of the holiday for less.
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jeniusj
3 days ago
Got another chance to visit the Studio Museum In Harlem again today and one of the first pieces that captured my attention was Romare Bearden's Jammin' at the Savoy Obsessed 😍😍
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jeniusj
3 days ago
Toni Braxton: How Many Ways
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Him Hardaway Sr
8 months ago
nothing to something… 🎨
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Leta Lestrange
4 days ago
Get you some BLACK NYC HISTORY, baby! NYU Alumni, lock in:
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The African Grove Theatre
YouTube video by NYU Gallatin
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Leta Lestrange
4 days ago
Created the African Grove Theater, originally at the corner of Bleecker and Mercer Streets, The Village (formerly known as Little Africa).
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Christina Proenza-Coles
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NYC native Ira Aldridge “travelled farther, was seen by more people in more nations, & won a greater number of prestigious honors, decorations & awards than any other actor in the 19th century” When a Black family in Baltimore was captured after fleeing slavery, he sent funds to buy their freedom.
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Travis Miller
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🇺🇸Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone named World Athletics Female World Athlete of the Year 🏆
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On CBS LA this morning discussing our doc The Devil is Busy - and abortion - with Sheba Turk
YouTube video by Soledad O'Brien
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Colossal
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Lukas Trixl, “The Land Before Time,” New Plymouth, North Island, New Zealand
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LMJ
4 days ago
You will not be disappointed.
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Imani Perry, 'Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People'
YouTube video by Hutchins Center
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@jeniusj.blacksky.app
ran across this & thought of you! What a fashion statement 🤗
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SapphireDiva
9 days ago
S U N K I S S E D So Sweet...Gorg!!
#sunkissed
#artform
#sun
#art
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This looks beautiful 😍 I ran across this 📕 by Imani Perry, a few weeks ago. Couldn’t pick it up - but was drawn to the cover. I’ll make sure to pick it up on my next bookstore run in an another week or so. 🤗🫶🏾
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University Press of Florida
5 months ago
Analyzing works of film and literature by writers and artists from Beyoncé to Ntozake Shange, OSHUN, LEMONADE, AND INTERTEXTUALITY by Sheneese Thompson explores how Afro-Atlantic religion intersects with themes of resilience in Black femininity and womanhood.
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Oshun, Lemonade, and Intertextuality
“The ability to map Oshun across the Afro-Atlantic world to tease out her vital iconic significance, in literary, cultural, religious, and political terrains, makes for a priceless book.”—Niyi Afol…
https://floridapress.blog/2025/07/15/oshun-lemonade-and-intertextuality/
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jeniusj
4 days ago
ART IV: Remembering Gwendolyn Brooks By Haki R. Madhubuti
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Barry Butler Photography
5 days ago
"We elves try to stick to the four main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corns, and syrup". Maybe this is the reason we haven't seen the CTA Elves Workshop Train riding the rails in Chicago in several years. Not the best diet! :)
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NPR
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Steve Cropper, who co-wrote classics including "(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay" and "In the Midnight Hour" during his years playing guitar at the legendary Stax Records in Memphis, has died. He was 84.
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Steve Cropper, guitarist and member of Stax Records' Booker T and the M.G.'s, dies
Steve Cropper, who co-wrote classics including "(Sittin' on) the Dock of the Bay" and "In the Midnight Hour" during his years playing guitar at the legendary Stax Records in Memphis, has died. He was 84.
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Chenlu Hou, “Kai Ming Shou-The enlightened beast ultimately chose jump rope” (2024)
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