Black Mama, Black Child.
Black Mama, Black Child.
This is the entirety of VH-1’s documentary on Rodney King, hip-hop and the LA Riots, via Ego Trip. IT IS CRUCIAL VIEWING, especially considering the bs that is the false and damaging rebranding of American society as “post-racial.”
(Source: jawnita)
#Tight.
Upon hearing this in 1976, Brian Eno told David Bowie that he had “heard the future.” He had. — @LadytronMusic
"‘Now the Olympics has come and dragged us all into the bright light, and a lot of attention is being given to London, and we’re not used to it. We’re not good at showing off. We’re not a good time to be had by all, we’re not an easy date. London isn’t a party animal by nature, it doesn’t join in or have a favorite karaoke song. It does, though, have a wicked, dry and often cruel sense of humor. It is clever, literate and dramatic. It is private and taciturn, a bit of a bore, and surprisingly sentimental. And it doesn’t make friends quickly, is awkward around visitors. We will be pleased when all the fuss and nosiness has gone away.’"
Dear Haruomi
You’re doing it for me.
Kind regards,
Nomfundo
“Mum and Dad dressing easy (1972) Much love ” — Adrien Sauvage
(Source: thisisnotasuit)
"Pizza used to be a Weird Ethnic Food and now it is Death Culture Sustenance. Do you think when Indian Americans are ultimately absorbed into the amorphous Honky Culture Vacuum, dosas will be synonymous with the spectral remnants of your once vibrant culture?"
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(Source: jawnita)
On Race, Feminism, and Jodie Landon
(I hear that).
(via toasterwaffles)
Happy Birthday, Keith Haring.
‘When Paris is Burning came out I was just a kid in the local choir in my church in New Orleans.’ — Read about how the music and fashion of Paris is Burning affected Big Freedia and others influenced by the late ’80s/early ’90s ball scene.
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Here is a miraculously-not-shitty Blackberry photo I shot at Waka Flocka’s SPIN cover shoot, real photographer was Jason Nocito. If you haven’t read my story but want to, it is NOW ONLINE!
@WandileMsomi: my older brother was born in India to 2 college kids and raised on a skateboard. #Proud. Oh, and Funisu is his afrocentric but still One Love board company he launched a while back in Joburg. Putting South African skateboarding on the map: what a hero.
<— Charms me.
