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Dagbamba Brothers in Tamale Ghana

'December 2024

Submitted by: Sem

Connect: @babygalsem

Love in Black August

Eid 2025

Stories Connect Us

Be part of a collective rooted in memory, where we celebrate the stories that shape us and the legacy that unites us.

A photo titled, “Easter Sunday in Harlem, New York” 1947 by Henri Cartier-Bresson

Co-stars and friends Léa Garcia and Lourdes de Oliveira during a promotional run in Paris, 1960.⁠
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Both actresses were members of the Teatro Experimental do Negro (Black Experimental Theater), a cultural movement founded in Brazil to create o

Miss Ethel Woodworth in a double shot glass negative, Kansas, 1920.

Before she became a championship coach, Dawn Staley was running the floor at the University of Virginia, where she led the Cavaliers to three Final Four appearances.  She finished her career as one of the most acclaimed point guards in college b

Born in 1947 to a Black Hausa family, Etab (Tarouf Abdulkhair Adam Talal) became one of Saudi Arabia’s first and most acclaimed female singers when she began her professional career in the 1960s. Raised Bedouin, Etab carried those roots into he

Born in 1927 in Laurel, Mississippi, Leontyne Price became one of the most celebrated sopranos in the world and the first African American to achieve international fame in opera.⁠
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The daughter of a carpenter and a midwife with a soprano voice, Pric

“Visiting my father’s home town, Hattiesburg Mississippi.
Magnolias in full bloom.

“I am convinced that most people do not grow up ... our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias.”
Maya Angel

Dame Marguerite Pindling served as First Lady of The Bahamas from 1967 to 1992. ⁠
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The late 1960s and early 1970s marked the final chapter of colonial rule, as Bahamians pushed toward full self-governance. Alongside Prime Minister Lynden Pindling, D

“These images were captured from 1998-2002 by my older sister @delilahpeach in my child home on Staten Island, New York.

My hair journey started out with my mother. She’d always do different hairstyles on me. She’d cornrow my hair

Meet the Wake-Robin Golf Club, the oldest African American women’s golf club in the country.

Founded in the 1930s in Washington, D.C., 13 Black women said, “If we’re not welcome on the course, we’ll build our own club.”

Born in Dakar in 1929, Mariama Bâ was a writer, feminist, and literary pioneer. Raised Muslim in Senegal, Bâ gave voice to her deep frustration with the social constraints placed on African women in her groundbreaking novel So Long a Lett

Last Saturday’s Roots & Remembrance gathering with @groun.ded was truly special. Thank you to everyone who came out to share space, stories, and wisdom with us. 🌿 
It was beautiful hearing how knowledge about tending to the earth has trave

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