Rebel Mood

Hand-colored tintype portrait of three unidentified African American women, c. 1856.

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Meet: Lester Kern

Lester Kern was a nationally renowned artist and comic illustrator and Milwaukee  native who resided in Stone Mountain Georgia. His interest in art developed at around three years of age. This interest was so intense that his parents bought him a small chalk board to divert his attention away from the walls and important papers. This plan worked, and a young artist was born.

Equally at home as a fine artist, cartoonist or commercial illustrator, his first published works appeared at age thirteen.

By sixteen he was employed part-time as a staff cartoonist for a small weekly newspaper. He went on to win several awards locally, and was eventually awarded a full art scholarship to the University of Wisconsin where he received his formal education (BFA).

James Van Der Zee’s photographic chronicle of the Harlem Renaissance and African-American life in Harlem during the 1920s/30s (source)

BLACK GARBO | 1930s

Nina Mae McKinney (1912 – 1967) was an American actress who worked internationally during the 1930s and in the postwar period in theater, film and television, after getting her start on Broadway and in Hollywood. Dubbed “The Black Garbo” in Europe because of her striking beauty,McKinney was one of the first African-American film stars in the United States, as well as one of the first African Americans to appear on British television.

Even his line at the end, when Nani thanks him for helping her find a job (”That’s okay. You can just date me and we’ll call it even.”), is delivered with a certain amount of humor, and his behavior throughout the rest of the film shows that he would still accept it if she turned him down. Because more than just liking Nani, he RESPECTS her.

Mermaids are meant to be BEAUTIFUL…… Therefore MerMEN are meant to be BREATHTAKING!!!!

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