The Natural Specimen

Maya Angelou, March 25, 1974, Photograph © Jill Krementz [New York Public Library, New York, NY]

(image: Toni Morrison visiting the University of Mississippi to speak at a conference on William Faulkner, who was a subject of her 1955 master’s thesis at Cornell, 1985. William R. Ferris Collection, Southern Folklife Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC)

(image: Toni Morrison, New York, NY, February 13, 1974. Photo © Jill Krementz)

Angela Davis, left, with [Harold] Ford Morrison and Toni Morrison outside the Random House offices on 50th Street, March 28, 1974 [Photo: © Jill Krementz]

Toni Morrison in her office at Random House, New York, NY, February 13, 1974. Photo © Jill Krementz

Dance Recital in Brooklyn. Photo by Leroy Henderson, 1992

Rugrats Rap by Kriss Kross (1994)

Mistress 9 & Black Lady! Piece I did for a Sailor Moon zine