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Art Sims and his agency, 11:24 Design, created the posters for Do the Right Thing, Malcolm X, and New Jack City, defining how a generation first saw Black cinema.

#malcomx #art #design #film #malindipress by @zmasongo

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In 2011, radio R&B was chasing the club. Then Frank Ocean, Jhené Aiko, and The Weeknd gave their music away online, and the genre was never the same. From Drake’s Take Care to SZA, Bryson Tiller, and Brent Faiyaz, the sound you stream today started here.

#rnb #music #frankocean #theweeknd #malindipress by @zmasongo

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In 1939, Augusta Savage turned “Lift Every Voice and Sing” into a 16-foot harp for the New York World’s Fair. Twelve Black singers formed its strings. When the fair ended, no one paid to save it, and it was destroyed.

#art #sculpture #arthistory #culture #malindipress by @zmasongo

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In 1945, at just 24, Georg Olden became head art director of CBS’s new television division, two years before Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color line.

He helped shape the look of I Love Lucy and Gunsmoke, designed the Clio statuette, and in 1963 became the first African American to design a U.S. postage stamp.

#history #coolhistory #media #television #malindipress by @zmasongo

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For about fifteen years, Gail Anderson gave Rolling Stone’s pages their voice, with type that danced, collided and stretched to fit the story.

She took that energy to Broadway posters, the classroom and the AIGA Medal, the highest honor in American graphic design.

#art #design #graphicdesign #rollingstone #malindipress by @zmasongo

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In 2000, Sylvia Harris was the creative director behind the U.S. Census, redesigning it so people who had been left out before would be counted.

Her work reached about 80 million households, and today an award in her name honors design that serves the public.

#art #design #graphicdesign #malindipress #history by @zmasongo

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In 1973, Ben Enwonwu painted Tutu, a princess of Ife. The original vanished for decades, then turned up in a London flat in 2017 and sold for £1.2 million.

#art #nigeria #arthistory #africa #malindipress by @zmasongo

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Alma Thomas taught art to D.C. schoolchildren for 35 years. After she retired, she painted full time, and at 80 she became the first Black woman to have a solo show at the Whitney. Decades later, her work hung in the White House.

#art #arthistory #almathomas #history #malindipress by @zmasongo

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Sanlé Sory started taking photos in 1960, the year Burkina Faso won independence. At his Volta Photo studio, anyone could pose as who they dreamed of becoming.

#art #photography #africa #burkinafaso #malindipress by @zmasongo

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Virgil Abloh put a chain on Caravaggio’s “David with the Head of Goliath” for Westside Gunn’s “Pray for Paris.” Turns out hip-hop has been telling David’s story all along.

#art #music #hiphop #caravaggio #malindipress by @zmasongo

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Not a ban, but not nothing. A new federal earnings rule could cut off student loans for programs where Black students are heavily represented, from social work to cosmetology.

#education #news #socialwork #malindipress #cosmetology by @zmasongo

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What does a creator actually own?

At IRL New York, @zmasongo joins us for The Creator is a Business, a fireside chat on moving from “I make content” to understanding content as an asset, with a practical look at image, likeness, intellectual property, ownership, and commercialization.

RSVP using the link in bio. by @zmasongo

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