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Olmec colossal head, monument Q, Tres Zapotes. At Santiago Tuxtla.

To make marajó ice cream, first get purple nuts from an assahy palm. Photo by Desmond Holdridge, 1959.

Between the outer skin and the large, hard stone of the nut lies a layer of pulp. When crushed, it produces a thick, delicious purple drink. In Pará, the beverage is the principal ingredient of ice cream, which enjoys an excellent sale. Men lost in Amazon forests have sustained themselves, sometimes for as long as a month, on the nourishing beverage from the fruit of this palm.

Leaf catamaran craft lesson on Anuta, 1976.

Awesome Tapes from Africa

which is, well, what it says on the tin. Some stuff is free to download, some stuff is available to purchase, some stuff is both.

Just on the first page, we have:

Arthur — Vuvuzela  Dance Remixes Vol. 3 — S’Bamu [South Africa]

Nahawa Doumbia — La Grande Cantatrice Malienne Vol 1  [Mali]

Asnakech Worku — Asnakech (featuring Hailu Mergia) [Ethiopia]

Khalifa Gueye — Ruba [Senegal]

The site started as just a guy digitizing music from cassette tapes that you couldn’t find anywhere outside street markets in various African cities, and now it’s an actual record label that works with African musicians… and also a guy digitizing tapes.

We are Black History Too

The Garifuna people are a mixed African and indigenous people who originally lived on the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent.

We resisted British colonialism.

Exiled because we refused to be enslaved.

Survived intent of genocide.

Shipped off to foreign lands. (Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, Nicaragua)

225 years post exile, we are still here. ✊🏽

Thank God and our ancestors.

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También Somos Historia Negra

Los garífuna son una mezcla de africanos y personas indígenas que originalmente vivía en la isla caribeña de San Vicente.

Nos resistimos a la colonización británica.

Nos exiliaron porque nos rehusábamos a ser esclavizados.

Sobrevivimos intento de genocidio.

Nos enviaron a tierras extranjeras. (Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, Nicaragua.)

225 años después del exilio, aquí seguimos. ✊🏽