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Bronx-based cultural critic, folklorist, fine artist. Black daughter of the Great Migration & Ayiti Cheri.

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no EBT… YET! I love an aspirational business, telling the people of what’s to come. (snapped this for the food series I’m working on). Photo inside corner store, at the register where chewing gum, incense and other small items for sale are behind plexiglass. There is a handwritten sign that says “No E.B.T. YET” and “YET” is written in more pronounced, larger letters than “No E.B.T.” by @almediums

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6 days ago

don’t eat the clay by @almediums

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16 days ago

mason stain magic ceramic tile to honor Octavia Butler Ceramic tile with photo on packing paper by @almediums

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a month ago

This biscuit from @shandakenbake was SO DELICIOUS, I intended to sketch it after my first bite, but forgot and kept eating it until the final bite. Second slide is my time travel sketch of the delicious biscuit I enjoyed with some blackberry jam. Crayon, colored pencil, marker, graphite on kraft paper. by @almediums

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2 months ago

ON THIS DAY, August 15, 1882
(reference photo for later use, from A pictorial history of Black Americans by Langston Hughes, Milton Meltzer and C Eric Lincoln, 1967.

Text reads:
1809. 1882.
GRAND COMPLIMENTARY
ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION!
TENDERED TO
“Pap” Singleton,
The originator of the Colored Emigration from the south to the west, and father of the late great “EXODUS,” in the seventy-third year of his age, by the citizens of Kansas, for his untiring efforts to ameliorate human suffering,
TUESDAY, AUG. 15th,
To be held at HARTZELL PARK,
NEAR THE CITY LIMITS OF
TOPEKA, - KANSAS.
(Street cars run to and from the Park.)

BENJAMIN SINGLETON, better known as “Old PaPaRy.
“was born in August 1809, and therefore will be seventy-three years old that day. And on that day, let every loyal citizen, be he speaker, statesman or minister of the Gospel, come forward and extend the right hand of fellowship.

Invitations have been extended to leading citizens in different cities of the State, and excursions are expected from each city.

-PROGRAMME FOR THE DAY:-
OPENING CHORUS.. song, JOHN BROWN.
PRAYER.
“WHY WE CELEBRATE TO-DAY “...JUDGE W. I. JAMISON, Of North Topeka.
after which adresses will be delivered by the following prominent speakers and divines:

Goy. John P. St. John, |
Rev. John F.
Thomas,
Peter Hucker,
Markham,
I. s. Cooper,
Hey. R. W. William,
antord Griftin
Layer,
Hon. Thomas Ryan,
“ J. Turner, Kan.City.
MUSIC WILL BE INTERSPERSED BETWEEN EACH SPEECH.
COMMITTEE OF INVITATION:
COMMITTEE OF RECEPTION:
: Brashears, G. White, Wm. Love,
G. W. Sanith,
F. M. Stonestreet.
Duncan, J. H. Slaughter,
COMMITTEE OF ABRANGEMENTS:
A. Scales, Joseph Jones, H. Roling, T. Bird,, Rev. Jas. Bradshaw, C. H. Brown, 4. D. Defrantz.
A D. DEFRANTZ.
President of the
Day!
salutes will be fired at
sunrise, and at 7 o’clock, P.M..
Oncer
James
Mason.
Stands can be
Committee of Arrangements.
he had on the grounds by referring to the
Admission to Park,
Five
Cents.
All sabbath School Scholars and their Teachers will be admited FREE!
Topeka Daily Capital Publishing Company. by @almediums

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2 months ago

meconopsis sketching in progress (and the pansy + papaya “influencers” I’ve been dreaming of in between). I think a true meconopsis has one layer of petals pero like this is how the flower shows up in my brain, so here we are.
Slide 1: video of me drowning my favorite pastel paper in cad-orange watercolor paint. Slide 2: purple pansy in a pot. Slide 3: closeup of very ripe halved papaya with seeds. Slide 4: photo of a meconopsis poppy bloom I painted (am painting) but am letting dry now (paske mwen fatige). by @almediums

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2 months ago

Learning and creating with @publicceramics. Image is two glazed ceramic tiles with photographs that I affixed via water slide decal. The photos are my sisters on the left, and on the right is a still of Ferid Boughedir’s 1983 “Caméra d’Afrique” where Ousmane Sembene’s quote “Je suis mois-même le soleil” is translated into English. by @almediums

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2 months ago

mixed media work in progress.
ink, gouache, silver, acrylic, pastel, watercolor, color pencil on green paper! I loooove this paper. by @almediums

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2 months ago

on vacation from the day job, but somehow not in my art-making clothes. It’s time for that uninterrupted white. Hey sorors, hey! #AKAboule2026 #AKA1908 #artistsofAKA by @almediums

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3 months ago

My brother & I were talking about our grandpa today and he reminded me of this protest sign he carried to encourage people to boycott businesses who would not hire Black Pittsburghers. Later on, he would go on and establish #FreedomHouse. Grandpa Jim was doing community work for decades. He had been organizing for decades. He had established Freedom House as a hub for Black economic empowerment. This is why the first EMT training program was established out of his house that he had already built for Black workforce development and economic empowerment. In every telling of the Freedom House story, they talk of the heroic doctors who came to Hill district and gave Black people emergency medicine training that magically turned the program into a life-saving EMT service to the city of Pittsburgh. They skip over the part of earlier emergency training programs failing. But Freedom House succeeded at establishing both a training program and became a service provider and this is because of my grandfather. He was already doing workforce development that included trainings and getting people employed. Freedom House was addressing food insecurity, and was a meeting space to do local civil rights organizing. My grandfather would not permit training at Freedom House without lasting employment AND delivery of services to community. He wasn’t about to let anyone use him and his cachet to access Black people and move on. So Remember this: the heroic emergency medicine professionals who created the Freedom House EMT training program did so *with* local activist Jim McCoy, Jr. You will not come teach a class here that doesn’t become a job and you will not create a job here that won’t benefit all of us.
“Nxgro you have been the convenient American long enough. Spend your dollar where you can earn one”. Turns out President Jimmy Carter & I have something in common: we are staunch admirers of James McCoy, Jr. my dear grandpa. 🖤🖤🖤 by @almediums

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5 months ago

brown clay coils formed into a bowl. this was fun. cathartic. by @almediums

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6 months ago

Mr. Scott, beam us up! 🏺🤩🔥🏺
Ceramics awaiting bisque + low fire glaze firing. #BronxRiverArtCenter #ceramics Several ceramic pieces of pottery on top of an electric kiln, to be baked or fired. Some of the pottery is still wet clay and other pottery is painted with glaze waiting to be fired. by @almediums

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10 months ago