#blackdiaspora

From the panels to the marketplace, this was a day of remembrance, resistance, and creative possibility. We’re grateful to everyone who joined us and helped make this space sacred. Until the next gathering. 🖤

It's not easy to review an exhibition as monumental and important as 'Afro-Atlantic Histories' — on view now @ngadc — but staff writer @jcljules has gone deep this week @newyorkermag ⁠ ⁠ He describes the show, featuring more than 130 works, including paintings, prints, sculptures and more, as "an odyssey that extends from seventeenth-century Kongo to present-day Puerto Rico. Contemporary artists like Toyin Ojih Odutola share space with modernists like Aaron Douglas and Elizabeth Catlett, alongside records of the transatlantic slave trade and early modern Euro-American representations of Black subjects. The exhibition boldly dispenses with any distinction between artifacts and works of the imagination: A.A. Lamb’s 'Emancipation Proclamation' (1864 or after), which depicts a saintly Abraham Lincoln delivering freedom on horseback, is on equal footing with Dalton Paula’s 'Zeferina (2018), an imagined portrait of a woman executed for leading a slave uprising near Salvador da Bahia in 1826."⁠ ⁠ Read the full review via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ Published by @delmonico_books & @masp ⁠ ⁠ Edited with text by @adrianopedrosa & @tomastoledo Text by @ayrsonheraclito @debwillisphoto @helio.menezes @kanshefle @liliaschwarcz & @sharpwhitebackground ⁠ Design @paulatinoco & @estudiocampo⁠ ⁠ #afroatlantichistories @mfahouston @lacma #diaspora #blackatlantic #blackdiaspora https://www.instagram.com/p/CdQ4cHmLq1T/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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It's important to not forget that EVERY SINGLE beautiful gown you see was possible due to a structure of abuse: Either black bodies were enslaved, children were abused or a free worker was put through extreme conditions. 💣 It's also important to note that today some companies still do that. Maybe not in London or US but in Brazil and other warmer countries where we produce your food, chocolate, coffee and fabrics. Companies like Nestle and Lacta (Mondelez) were investigated and known for using child labor in 2020 Pará, Brazil ( they also go through the names of Olam International & Barry Callebaut - one of the most expensive chocolates ) Hershey's was also sued for employing child labor in 2015. Photos: ▪ Sweeper and doffer boys in Lancaster Cotton Mills. Lewis Hine 1908 ▪ OUR BABY DOFFER" and some of the other infants all working in Avondale Mills. Location: Birmingham, Alabama. November 1910, by Lewis Hine ▪ 12 years old Child working in a cacao plantation. 21th century. Africa. #blackhistory #slavehistory #blackdiaspora #darkhistory #victorianera #costurahistorica #eravitoriana #industriatextil #textileindustry #victorianfebruary https://www.instagram.com/p/CLzVNjTAkN_/?igshid=68nxeck5eppp