Katherine Dunham sitting in dressing room, February 1, 1948 – Museum of History and Industry – University of Washington Digital Collections — Read on digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/imlsmohai/id/10334/
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Katherine Dunham in Tropical Revue | Cecilia Schultz
Seattle, Washington: Cecilia Schultz, 1943. 12mo 8.5” x 5.5” . 8 pp., including printed self-wrappers. Illus. A scarce playbill for a 1943 peformance of Dunham’s Tropical Revue in Seattle.African-American dancer, choreographer, anthropologist and activist Katherine Dunham 1909–2006 enjoyed one of the most successful dance careers of the twentieth century. Tropical — Read on http://www.jamesarsenault.com/pages/books/6020/cecilia-schultz/katherine-dunham-in-tropical-revue
booty bump
booty bump bump booty bump bump the thick of us together the thick of it booty bump bump booty bump bump
Anna Deavere Smith by Thulani Davis | BOMB Magazine
A couple of months later, my friend Mary called me up and said it’s on again. I tape recorded it; I transcribed it, and this is when I became really interested in watching not what people say, but how they say it. Particularly when they run out of words. In the case of a personContinue reading “Anna Deavere Smith by Thulani Davis | BOMB Magazine”
wake town tell people
put themclose to your heartmake thema sound in your collageknow thembetter than u know yr selfis an illusionyou came up withto start livingwake towntell people
new york tang poem
chameleon eritrea azalea gunshot subway psychedelia beeswax beesting paranoia peony basil anatolia
George Lamming, Who Chronicled the End of Colonialism, Dies at 94
“Born in Barbados, he was among the last of a generation of writers who traced the Caribbean’s transition to independence.” Clay Risen renders … George Lamming, Who Chronicled the End of Colonialism, Dies at 94
epistolary poets
poets when writing letters always seem to forget to leave space for their signature the sign of a mind obsessed with line enjambment so that they forget their own name sincerely,
it is
is this luv is this luv is this luv is this luv that i’m feeling? say marley and it is it always is i know myself i know this luv know this luv know this luv know this luv that i’m feeling
i made the decision
i made the decision to be wholei made the decision to be lovedi made the decision to envelop myselfi made the decision to fighti made the decision to cryi made the decision to knowi made the decision was worth the blood
Aida Rends 