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Representations of black male on black male pain are most often depicted within the confines of ghettocentric urban action flicks that focus almost always on the gun violence between black men in the hood (‘Boyz in the Hood’, ‘Menace II Society’, ‘New Jack City’). However, talking aloud about the emotional not just sexual as well as physical abuse that black men suffer at the hands of other black men is taboo unless it’s couched as a clever joke about how my daddy used to beat my ass or the way he didn’t take no mess.
Stephanie Dunn, For Colored Boys, Who’ve Often Been Silent On And Off Screen
work. inothernews: WILL WORK FOR   Men held signs advertising their work skills along a road in Glenvista, South Africa, Thursday. (Photo: Siphiwe Sibeko / Reuters via the Wall St. Journal)

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WILL WORK FOR   Men held signs advertising their work skills along a road in Glenvista, South Africa, Thursday. (Photo: Siphiwe Sibeko / Reuters via the Wall St. Journal)

Black Oral History Project Heads 'Back-To-School'

Throughout the month of September, Tell Me More explores issues in education �” what’s outstanding, what needs improvement and what remains incomplete. Friday, hundreds of prominent African American leaders will head back to school as part of a special project by The HistoryMakers. (Via NPR)

Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of American Politics {EVENT}

In her book Democracy Remixed: Black Youth and the Future of American Politics(Oxford University Press), scholar Cathy J. Cohen offers an authoritative analysis of the state of black youth in America today. Utilizing results from the Black Youth Project, a groundbreaking national survey, Cohen focuses on the experiences of young black Americans and provides a complex and balanced picture of the intersection of opportunity and discrimination in their lives. 

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Washerwoman. (via ladyfresh) …In 2005, the National Museum of American History acquired this ambrotype of a washerwoman for the Union Army in Richmond, Va. On her dress is pinned an American flag that was hand-painted after the image was made and before it was cased. The description of the photograph comes from the back of a gallery dealer’s business card, on which he had transcribed the text from a disintegrating piece of paper inside the case. Though there are many anonymous, unremarkable portraits in homes, libraries and museums, this photograph emerges during a tumultuous time in American history, and black women were not often depicted in this formal way. … ~via NPR picture show

Washerwoman.

(via ladyfresh)

…In 2005, the National Museum of American History acquired this ambrotype of a washerwoman for the Union Army in Richmond, Va. On her dress is pinned an American flag that was hand-painted after the image was made and before it was cased. The description of the photograph comes from the back of a gallery dealer’s business card, on which he had transcribed the text from a disintegrating piece of paper inside the case.

Though there are many anonymous, unremarkable portraits in homes, libraries and museums, this photograph emerges during a tumultuous time in American history, and black women were not often depicted in this formal way. …

~via NPR picture show