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  1. "He had become wealthy and famous by unearthing other people’s secrets, but the man known as Sheridan Bruseaux was keeping a few of his own."

    An excerpt from the new Atavist Magazine story, by Matthew Wolfe: longreads.com/2025/08/05/black

    #Longreads #Journalism #TrueCrime #BlackAmerica #Storytelling #Nonfiction

  2. …The order is the latest move by the #Trump admin to quash recognition of #BlackAmericans’ contributions to the nation & to gloss over the legal, political, social & economic obstacles they have faced.

    Trump’s approach is “a literal attack on #BlackAmerica itself,”Ibram X. Kendi, race historian & bestselling author, said. “The #BlackSmithsonian, as it is affectionately called, is indeed one of the heartbeats of Black America…&…also one of the heartbeats”of the nation at large.

    #AmericanHistory

  3. 🟡 African American Boy & Banjo 1877 Thomas Eakins⁣

    #AmericanSouth, #Banjo, #BlackAmerica, #ThomasEakins

    Vintage ◦ Classic ◦ Historical | Art ◦ Design ◦ Inspiration | Restored ◦ Enhanced ◦ Remixed⁣

    Prints, T-Shirts, Stickers, & More by @rocketshipretro via RedBubble → bigplanetprints.com/go/frysgP

  4. 🟡 African American Boy & Banjo 1877 Thomas Eakins⁣

    #AmericanSouth, #Banjo, #BlackAmerica, #ThomasEakins

    Vintage ◦ Classic ◦ Historical | Art ◦ Design ◦ Inspiration | Restored ◦ Enhanced ◦ Remixed⁣

    Prints, T-Shirts, Stickers, & More by @rocketshipretro via RedBubble → bigplanetprints.com/go/frysgP

  5. #Black #America Doesn’t Have to Shop at #Walmart

    Walmart made big promises after #GeorgeFloyd’s murder. Now, under pressure from “anti-#woke#activists, it’s axing its #racialequity center and ditching #DEI. Does the company still deserve a piece of #BlackAmerica’s $1.8 trillion #spending power?

    wordinblack.com/2024/11/black-

  6. "'I have a deep-seated fear,' he told me, 'that the Black struggle will ultimately, at its root, really just be about narrow Black interest. And I don’t think that is in the tradition of what our most celebrated thinkers have told the world.'"

    A #NewYorkMagazine profile of Ta-Nehisi Coates by Ryu Spaeth: nymag.com/intelligencer/articl

    #Longreads #BlackAmerica #Writers #Race #Racism #Palestine #Israel #Culture

  7. Walker Evans. Vicksburg, Mississippi, mars 1936. Outre le fait d’être un grand nom de la photographie sociale et documentaire américaine, en plus d’être un grand photographe tout court, Walker Evans était aussi un passionné de la typographie dans ce qu’elle a de plus noble, sa forme vernaculaire, banale, quotidienne, et invisible.

    #photographie #WalkerEvans #BlackAmerica #Typographie #EtatsUnis #TypoVernaculaire #PhotoSociale

  8. "WE NEED TO GET OUT of this #moneySystem that funds our #terror" says #IsaiahJackson, author of 'Bitcoin and Black America'.

    Some #protesters are reportedly holding up signs, telling people to read this #book. In it the author suggests the #workingClasses can support each other and develop a strong #circularEconomy, while the #fiatCurrencies crumble into insignificance.

    #bitcoin #blackamerica #justice #farmersMarkets #fairGo #criminalJustice #unconfiscatable #resilience