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Salt-N-Pepa (with Spinderella) photographed by Steve Eichner at their music video shoot for “Shoop” (U.S. #4, UK #13) in 1993.

Early 2000s Hip-Hop and R&B is essential.

i refuse to lower my standards. i know what i deserve and accepting less than that is just disrespecting myself.

Billie Holiday performing at the Mars Club in Paris on November 20, 1958.

Photos by Jean Pierre Leloir

James Baldwin, Colored Entrance, North Carolina, Durham, Photo by Steve Schapiro, 1963

I crave simple things with the right company

CAPTNICK APPROVED ✊🏿

The Old West - 1 in 4 cowboys were Black in the 1800s. 

White men referred to themselves as cattlemen, whereas Black men (and Black women) solely were called cowboys, which was a derogatory word. Hence “boy” instead of “man,” and other negative things they grouped with it for the formerly enslaved in the United States.

A cattleman is a person who owns cattle while a cowboy is a person who herds and tends to the damn cattle. The epitome of a hard worker…which is why that shit was bulldozed and scooped up for their initial signature imagery in Hollywood.

Then Black Americans just vibing out, unknowingly made yet another new style of music later referred to as country music, which blended Negro spirituals, the blues and jazz paired with the banjo, and white men decided to merge the two as their own: cowboys + country music. That’s another topic.

Our cowboy/cowboy tradition is solidified in Black American culture all across the country where we exist, regardless if we’re finally heavily depicted as such in pop culture or not. That ain’t never letting up.

Some in the photoset ranging from the late-1800s to the early 1900s: Bill Pickett, Stagecoach Mary, Jesse Stahl, Bass Reeves, Nat Love, Isom Dart, James Beckwourth

Foxy Brown at the book party release for “How To Become Famous In Two Weeks Or Less” (2002).

naomi campbell photographed by pamela hanson for vogue italia 1994

Music takes you to a whole oher world. A world that’s not like this one

si una vez dije que te amaba, hoy me arrepiento

ARTIST: 702 (featuring Missy Elliott) 

TRACK: “Steelo" 

ALBUM: “No Doubt" 

YEAR: 1996