Film still Black Girl / La Noire de...
by Ousmane Sembene (1966)
Mbissine Therese Diop as "Diouana"
Excerpt from Immigrants Unions & The New Us Labor Market by Immanuel Ness
Malian immigrant woman living in Essonne, France since 1971.
Photo by Patrick Zachmann, 1993.
Amilcar Cabral
Neighbors of Alberta Spruill in protest
Alberta Spruill was a 57-year old woman who died of heart failure after NYPD mistakenly raided her Harlem home. Photo by Paul Fusco, 2003
"Stolen Lives: Killed By U.S. Law"
"A banner listing more than 200 names of victims who died from police brutality in the U.S. is the centerpeice of the rally in Harlem." 25 May 2003; photo by Paul Fusco.
Samuel Fosso, 1977
Self portrait
New York City, 1981
by Eve Arnold
"Dakar Chic: an homage to the people of Leopold Sedar Senghor"
Patrick Cariou for Vogue Homme, 2002
Breakdancing contest, Venice, California, 1992
by A. Abbas
by David Alan Harvey
Peter Tosh
Still from Handsworth Songs (1986)
Black Audio Film Collective; courtesy of Smoking Dogs Films
Black Audio Film Collective
Jamaica, 1976
by Alex Webb
Harlem, NYC, 2000
by David Alan Harvey
Still from Bush Mama (1979)
Haile Gerima
By Jamel Shabazz
Million Youth March, Harlem, 1998
by Paul Fusco
West African immigrant, Harlem, NYC, 1997
by Patrick Zachmann
Pigments (1937)
Leon Gontran Damas
Close-Up (1990)
Abbas Kiarostami
Adama Kouyate
Aimé Césaire’s Cahier d’un retour au pays natal
Courtesy of Francophone Digital Humanities
Olive Morris
By Neil Kenlock
Nina Simone
on the artist's responsibility
Julius Eastman
in Edinburgh, February, 1974, photograph by Peter Gena.
Comme des Garçons perfume ad, 1994
Ousmane Sembene
Thelonious Monk
1965
Saigon, 1960s
Caravelle Hotel. Courtesy of Manh Hai
Michel Foucault & Jean-Paul Sartre
at a demonstration in the neighborhood Gouette d'Or, Paris. Photo by Marc Simon
Richard Lokiden Wani
James Baldwin
in Harlem, 1963. Photo by Steve Schapiro
Senegalese filmmaker Safi Faye
Angela Davis + Toni Morrison
Nadja by Andre Bréton
Ted Joans
at the Cafe Bizarre, Greenwich Village, New York, 1958
Portrait by James Barnor for DRUM magazine
1960s
Trinh T. Minh-ha
Bronx, New York, 1985
by Ferdinando Scianna
Bronx, New York, 1985
by Ferdinando Scianna