Angela Davis introducing James Baldwin at UC Berkeley (April 19 and April 26, 1974)

Audio here:

http://dpg.lib.berkeley.edu/webdb/mrc/search_vod.pl?avr=1

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Octavia Butler’s senior class photo from John Muir High School in Pasadena, California (1965)

via jalylah

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Coastal Sanaag & Bari, Puntland - Mid to late 1840s

Illustrations done by French explorer Charles Guillain, between 1846 and 1848, during his visits to the coastal Sanaag and Bari regions of Puntland.

(Source: puntland, via diasporicroots)

Ellington At The Keyboard. Photograph of Duke Ellington for an Olivetti advertisement. Undated. (via Milton Glaser Design Study Center And Archives: Images from the Henry Wolf Collection)

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Photo: Chinua Achebe in Enugu, Nigeria, 1959 | by Eliot Elisofon

Source: ukpuru

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Memphis, Tennessee. A secondhand clothing and pawn shop and a cheap rate hotel (Marion Post Wolcott, October 1939)

Library of Congress, Farm Security Administration and Office of War Information collection

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Carrie Mae Weems - You Became a Scientific Profile (1995-96) 

via blackcurator

Tintype of James Weldon Johnson’s mother and sister: Helen Louise Johnson (1871-1938) and Agnes Marion Edwards (1885-1976)

ca. 1870

Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Book Cover: Walter Benjamin - Einbahnstraße/One-Way Street (1928) designed by Sasha Stone.

Walter Benjamin - Einbahnstraße
Schutzumschlag, Vorderseite
Ernst Rowohlt Verlag
Berlin, 1928

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Seydou Keïta - Untitled #419, 1950-1952

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Sylvia Wynter, circa 1972.

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 If It’s Optic White, It’s the Right White

                        Audre Lorde and Jewelle Gomez (circa 1983) 

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Photos of Birmingham’s Afro-Caribbean Community in the 1950s, taken by Dyche Photography Studio, Birmingham, UK.

From Image Matters: Archive, Photography, and the African Diaspora in Europe by Tina M. Campt (Duke University Press, 2012). Courtesy Birmingham City Library, UK.

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“Black Women in Jail” from Harris & Ewing “District of Columbia. Various Views at D.C. Jail” (1919)

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