
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










































