Day 11: Edmonia Lewis https://t.co/euIOjGq0W8
“Lewis had to balance her own personal identity with her artistic, social, and national identity, a tiring activity that affected her art.”

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We should be reminding our children of the power and strength that comes with being Black every chance we get 🖤 purchase your copy of The Girl Who Could Do Anything at https://t.co/8JU68RWi33

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painting. I was trying to focus on dynamic posing and motion, because speed.

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Feb. 10 2020 KidLitQuoteOfTheDay: "Miles--curious, smart, crazy about music--claps and sways, lost in the moment until his mom hollers, "Time for school!"--Birth of the Cool

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2 amazing singers were born on this date: Leontyne Price, the first African-American woman featured at The Metropolitan...92 years old today...and the great Roberta Flack, born in 1937.

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Day 10: week begins with THE QUEEN HERSELF ORORO MUNROE! The OMEGA LEVEL MUTANT is easily one of the first characters you think of when you think of black characters. would kill as the Storm Goddess.

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Hii!!!
Harle/ Myi'ya here!!
I am a Artist, Fursuiter and Veterinarian!

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Happy Birthday to the magnificent, gifted . I did this quick tribute illustration of her today. Thank you so much for sharing your gifts with the world.

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Today, EJ is rocking her hair like her hero, Cicely Tyson! 💖

is an icon. She wore her natural hair proudly at a time in history when it was looked down upon.

Thank you for being such an inspiration to so many women!

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For the second Monday of we would do well to consider the incredible range & exceptional contribution of master printmaker Robert Blackburn, whose work spanned from the socially-engaged art of the WPA era (as in his 1938 lithograph Refugees)

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PAM GRIER
Living legend co-starred (with William H. Marshall) as Voodoo apprentice Lisa Fortier in SCREAM BLACULA SCREAM (1973), sequel of BLACULA, the cult movie that kickstarted the Blacksploitation horror genre.

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I want to do but I'm not sure if want to post my face. It was my icon for like 8 or 9 years, but....maybe I'll just do a chibi or something. Meanwhile, meet my buns. Bruce and Pandora. From an old comic I want to revamp sometime this year.

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