objectcuriosity:

Between Heaven and Earth, El Anatsui, 2006, Nigeria, aluminium, copper wire, Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

From the Met: 

The undulation of this work evokes that tactile quality and its resplendent color scheme of gold, red, and black translate and transpose the aesthetic of finely woven silk into the medium of base metal.

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real-hip-hop-affiliated:

KRS-1 (Tha Teacha) Speaking about Nikki Minaj

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prettyindian:

western history equals white mythology

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tropicm-ist:

she know

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equalityforflatbush:

Do you Believe that Tenants and small Homeowners deserve Equal Rights, a Decent Quality of Life and Respect?

Then JOIN “Equality for Flatbush” a new grassroots campaign to create a stronger network between tenant rights groups, block associations and community organizations…

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classicladiesofcolor:

(Burlesque dancer, Mei Ling)

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notime4yourshit:

I never felt the chance to rise above the role of maid in Hollywood movies. My color was against me any wav you looked at it. The fact that I was not ‘hot’ stamped me either as an uppity ‘Negress’ or relegated me to the eternal role of stooge or servant. I can sing but so can hundreds of other girls. My ambitions are to be an actress. Hollywood had no parts for me. - Theresa Harris

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lauramcphee:

Ida James, Cafe Society, Greenwich Village, NYC 1944 (Roman Vishniac)

Compared to the other chanteuses of the Café Society, including Sarah Vaughan and Billie Holliday, Ida James is little remembered today, yet when Vishniac took this portrait of James she was at the height of her career, famed for her grace, charm, and sugary, high voice. A popular vocalist on stage, radio, and screen, she recorded a hit duet with Nat King Cole, “Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby” and her signature song, “Shoo Shoo Baby,” in 1944.

Four years after Vishniac photographed Ida James, Josh White, and dozens of other African-American musicians at the Café Society, the legendary integrated nightclub closed its doors, one of many victims of the persecution of the House Un-American Activities Committee. These pictures remain a testament to Barney Josephson’s groundbreaking vision, to the broader reality of segregation, and to the inestimable contribution of African-American performers to American cultural life in the 1940s.

(via poc-creators)

webcommdesigns:

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 70% of all new jobs across all STEM fields during this decade, across engineering, the physical sciences, the life sciences, and the social sciences, will be in computer science. On a nationwide basis, that extrapolates to 750,000 new jobs for computer science grads. That is proof enough, says Edward D. Lazowska, the Bill & Melinda Gates chair in the Computer Science & Engineering program at the University of Washington, that computer science is where the jobs are in the future.

In Washington state, for example, there is a well-documented shortage in the health professions, engineering and in computer science. A 2011 study by the Higher Education Coordinating Board carefully examined the gap between supply and demand for all fields, identifying the fields with significant gaps at the two-year, four-year and graduate education levels. Computer science has by far the widest gap, with the health professions and engineering next. At the bachelor’s degree level, the gap between supply and demand in computer science is nearly twice as large as the gap in engineering, and three times as large as the gap in the health professions. While students educated in one field do sometimes take jobs in other fields, and while many employers require a diverse range of employee skills, preparation and skills vary significantly from field to field. This means that STEM graduates are not interchangeable, putting an even greater premium on computer science.

While there are some individuals in the IT field who, unfortunately, are unemployed or underemployed, this is more the exception than the rule. Anyone in the computer-science education business, or attempting to recruit for the IT field, is well aware of the extraordinary competition for both new graduates and seasoned professionals with state-of-the-art experience and skills, and of the incredible change-the-world opportunities that this field affords. As a result, universities should be thinking about ways to open up enrollment. At the University of Washington, the top-ranked computer science program can accommodate only about 25% of the students who successfully fulfill prerequisite courses and apply to the major.

Read more via Seattle Times

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native-detroiter:

autistitron:

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alexandraerin:

brashblacknonbeliever:

Poor Mr. Wise. He seems rather upset…

…he’s literally calling for people of color who criticize him to be banned from public life?

omg fucccckkkkk Tim Wise. He is such a tool bag! He is really showing his ass here. Like wow. Could he be any more pedantic and childish? He is basically throwing a tantrum right now. 

Tonto

“Rules of logic and evidence and basic fairness are not white creations meant to trick POC.” i’m pretty sure they’ve ALWAYS been used to trick POC. and are STILL used to trick POC. stfu white boy.

This reminds of the witch hunts that kill several people in Africa and South America every time there’s an eclipse.

Efforts by governments, aid workers and charities to educate (what you may call whiteplain/manplain) them about the reason eclipses happen fail and they simply assume a witch stole the sun, and several people die every time.

But I guess it’s ok, because all standards of science, logic and reason were tools of oppression created by white people to oppress everyone and cover for the sun-stealing witches.

Tumblr SJW’s are a parody of that deadly reality, how fear, bigotry and superstition turn people away from science, logic and reason, the lack of which further bolsters their fear, bigotry and superstition until they start to hunt witches, a deadly cycle of ignorance.

Your computer runs on logic, it is clearly oppressing you, better throw it out.

what the fuck are you talking about?!