“A LIL BIT OF THIS A LIL BIT OF THAT”

A Black-owned art gallery in NYC founded by Linda Goode Bryant in the 70s

It’s ok to begin again, at any stage of life.

Photography: Jamael Marsh

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Fannie Lou Hammer October 6, 1917 – March 14, 1977 (age 59) (When we say that they don’t make them like this Sister anymore, OMG! Beaten damn near to death by white men in jail, after being detained on a false charge and she still continued to fight! If Fannie Lou Hammer was on deck, Black men would literally be afraid to wear their pants down around their thighs, even in music videos because you couldn’t act the fool on Sister Hammers watch, she was not having it…)

Obama and _____ Obama and Oprah Winfrey Obama and Denzel Washington Obama and Stevie Wonder Obama and Jackie Chan Obama and Michael Jordan Obama and Patti LaBelle Obama and Spike Lee Obama and Beyonce/Jay Z Obama and Alicia Keys Obama and Al Sharpton

Tina Turner reciting the Lotus Sutra and chanting “Nam-myoho-renge-kyo” during her morning prayers.

WIFEY GET THE FURS

Jamel Shabazz. Sisterly Love. Flatbush, Brooklyn, 1982. Courtesy of the artist.

Carrie Mae Weems

Nengundi’s artist’s questionnaire for JAM, circa 1977. Senga Nengudi papers, 1947, circa 1962

Margiela Glove Bag (2007)

Pleasant Street Series by Anissa Lewis (2019)

Workers for Freedom shirt (late 1980s)

“One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana” (1998–2002) by Deborah Luster, this series of photos were captured in three different Louisiana state prisons. Luster spent six years to produce an archive of formal inmate portraits, printed using silver gelatin emulsion on metal plates.