GUINEA. 1988. In a village, near Mamou. Saturday, 03 September 1988.

Lyle Ashton Harris.

James P. Blair

Dawoud Bey.

Angela Davis at J'Ouvert, ph. Kathy Sloane [Grenada, 1982]

Niger, 1953. From the book Nomades du soleil by Henry Brandt

Malick Sidibé - Self-Portrait (1956)

A young Omani woman during  Dhofar Rebellion Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman, 1970s (Credit: Postcard by French solidarity committee CSRO)

DJ Kemistry (Notting Hill Carnival, 1994)

By Deborah Roberts

Boyz to Men, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY, October 1982, Meryl Meisler (source)

Cane River (Horace B. Jenkins, 1982)

Hearing news of Assata Shakur’s passing…. Been sitting with your spirit for a while now and cannot thank you enough for your life. Through you, Widefuturesss blooms towards a future where our resistance is true, where we can fly past walls of any prison abi institution. You are an ancestor now, a powerful one, u evaded all capture, a real icon. May ur spirit, as your grandmothers own, guarantee us a route, a way outta here, into the sun. Chineke bless ur passage. IJEOMA.

Minor League, Photo by Andrea Modica

{ And ask forgiveness of your Lord and then repent to Him. Indeed, my Lord is Merciful and Affectionate.} Quran (11,90)    هود - الآية 90

Flower Farm, Jamaica Jodi Cobb 1983