BLACK FOLK - THE ARCHIVE

ADORNMENT // a gentle reminder that instagram is the forgotten journal at the bottom of the drawer. Pouring into it this week and probably forgetting it the next. Bear with me 🖤
ADORNMENT // I really want to mention this past year and where it’s left us but time feels foreign to me lately. We’re witnessing capitalism turn ideas into products in 1-2 business days and then we watch as it implodes in slow motion. I
Gazes, Glances, and Glares // New York’s Subway 1980, Bruce Davidson.
Gazes, Glances, and Glares // At home in Cuba. Photographed by Robert van der Hilst
Gazes, Glances, and Glares // Carmen, of the Tesca neighborhood, with her daughter. (Colombia, 1966) Photographed by Danny Lyon
Jamaica photographed by @leejaffe
An icon who deserves so much more than he’s been given. Slide 1: DMX, Yonkers, NY, 1997 Photographed by Jonathan Mannion Slide 2: The purest truth told by @scottiebeam
Seal | ‘Crazy’ Video Still
Betty.
Reposted from the brilliant @shabakaaa // felt like a shapeshifter. black. brown. tender. and thought of this poem. magic
my man
is you
turning
my body into
a thousand
smiles.
black
magic is your
touch
making
me breathe. - black magic, Sonia Sanche
The grief is endless this year. Honestly, no words left just a deep pain felt. Rest easy 💔🕊
Ganja & Hess (1973)
Thankful for Lil Kim and her impact, forever and always. And let’s give @misahylton her flowers as well.
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were al
Vignette, 2020 - photographed by @troymichie