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Radical Black Reading: Summer 2012

We hope this summer 2012 edition of Radical Black Reading can offer some respite from the hurly burly of an increasingly anti-Black World…

africasacountry:

Zanele Muholi, Katiego Mashiloane and Nosipho Lavuta, Ext. 2, Lakeside, Johannesburg 2007

(Autograph)

vintagesomalia:

Somalia Sings Songs of the New Era (Radio Mogadishu SBSLP-100) issued in 1972.  More on this LP here

You can also download the LP in its entirety here 

#vintagesomalia

Langston Hughes’ Haiti Scrapbook, 1931

Zora Neale Hurston and Haiti

Cécile Fatiman, Boukman Dutty & Bois Caiman

blackartistnews:

Seydou Keïta, Untitled, #157, 1952-1955.

“I live in a time of racism, discrimination, violence and exclusion. My community, the community of Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent, is the poorest and most vulnerable, subject to the cruelest denial of their rights.”

beautone:

George Duke - Synapse Magazine (1977)

brokencircle:

YVR