Playwright Lorraine Hansberry playing the guitar...chillin'
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Moondongo, New Haitian Dance Trend - Say Magazine, March 31, 1955
Sonny Liston riding a bike......chillin'
What y'all know about the metal pick Prince has in his hand! Man, I hate that metal pick as a kid. If you had naps in ur Afro that pick will find it and destroy it along with the skin on ur head, ouch. Lol. Damn. I am traumatized looking at that pick!
Wow, look at his fingers straddling the strings on that fret board. Perfect! The way he holds the guitar. I bet he ran up and down that fret board picking notes perfectly. The cigarette in his mouth let you know he about to play the shit out that guitar. Lol.
The movie Crossroads is about the legend of Robert Johnson. There is a magic negro aspect to the movie. Nonetheless, it's a good rainy day movie.
Don't show this pic to Sean Hannity. His head would explode. He would say the young Barack was trying to drown and choke an unsuspecting white man. Ignoring the fact the white man is Barack's grandfather who helped raise him.young Barack Obama enjoying time on the beach with his grandfather, Stanley Armour Dunham, 1963.
Wilma Rudolph At The Summer Olympic Games Of Rome In 1960.
This photo was taken by Henri Cartier-Bresson, who was a French photographer considered to be the father of photojournalism. He was the master of candid photography and an early user of 35 mm film. More than likely this picture was not taken in the U.S.
Bill Russell, University of San Francisco senior basketball player. 1956
Jimi Hendrix in his kitchen at 34 Montagu Square, London, 1967.
Eddie Murphy and Rick James, 1986
Navajo youth Tom Torlino as he entered the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in 1882, and again 3 years later.
Sergeant Samuel Smith and family. Said to be the only photo of a black Union Soldier with his wife and children.
French Opium party, 1918
Annette Kellerman promotes women’s right to wear a fitted one-piece bathing suit, 1907. She was arrested for indecent exposure!
1922 Beach Police -- No swimsuit was allowed to be higher than 6 inches above the knee.
5MB IBM hard drive, 1956.
Eddie Murphy and Rick James, 1986
Navajo youth Tom Torlino as he entered the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in 1882, and again 3 years later.
Sergeant Samuel Smith and family. Said to be the only photo of a black Union Soldier with his wife and children.
French Opium party, 1918
Annette Kellerman promotes women’s right to wear a fitted one-piece bathing suit, 1907. She was arrested for indecent exposure!
1922 Beach Police -- No swimsuit was allowed to be higher than 6 inches above the knee.
5MB IBM hard drive, 1956.
Leonard Nimoy and his son Adam, circa 1965.
Sam Cooke, 1960
Wow
Miles Davis - 1948
damn man, that njgga used to cut my hair way back in the day. Some spot called jerrys den in Harlem. I think his name is Dennis or some shit.
Man the unbelievable irony of this photo.
Jim Jones receives a Martin Luther King, Jr. Humanitarian award at Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco
That revolutionary Huey P. Newton...
Muhammad Ali in London...(1966), you can see his brother is training next to him. I don't know who the other guys is.
Fashionably dressed Bruce Lee....chillin'
JUNE 22, 1938: Harlem residents at a bar on 135th St. raise a jubilant toast after world heavyweight champion Joe Louis' first-round knockout of Max Schmeling in Yankee Stadium.
James Baldwin, 1964
James Arthur Baldwin(August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, andsocial critic. His essays, as collected inNotes of a Native Son(1955), explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies ofracial,sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America.[1]Some Baldwin essays are book-length, for instanceThe Fire Next Time(1963),No Name in the Street(1972), andThe Devil Finds Work(1976). An unfinished manuscript,Remember This House, was expanded upon and adapted for cinema as theAcademy Awardnominateddocumentary film,I Am Not Your Negro.
James Arthur Baldwin(August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) was an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, andsocial critic. His essays, as collected inNotes of a Native Son(1955), explore palpable yet unspoken intricacies ofracial,sexual, and class distinctions in Western societies, most notably in mid-20th-century America.[1]Some Baldwin essays are book-length, for instanceThe Fire Next Time(1963),No Name in the Street(1972), andThe Devil Finds Work(1976). An unfinished manuscript,Remember This House, was expanded upon and adapted for cinema as theAcademy Awardnominateddocumentary film,I Am Not Your Negro.
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