Buddy Guy, 87, On Farewell Tour, Chess Records And City Of Chicago. Born to sharecroppers in Lettsworth, Louisiana, not far from the Mississippi border, Guy worked on the farm. While he channeled Guitar Slim in his frenetic, often distorted playing... forbes.com/sites/jimryan1…

Pharoah Sanders Quartet
The Creator Has A Master Plan

Congo hasn’t seen peace since its independence.

A girl and her younger brother who witnessed the killing of their parents during the 1994 Rwandan genocide wait for help in a refugee camp in Goma, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo).

The genocide perpetrated by the…

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Willie Mays makes a catch at the wall at Ebbets Field, 1954.

A special work for today ..✦✧

Pharoah Sanders (with Khalid Moss,
Hayes Burnett & Clifford Jarvis)

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In 1987, Thomas Sankara, a revolutionary African leader, was assassinated by French imperialists.

Sankara drove out French imperialism from Burkina Faso and withdrew from IMF and made the country non-reliant on foreign aid.

He was assassinated in a coup led by his close ally,…

Art Blakey

Doctor and Engineer Mae Jemison was the first black woman in space.

She flew aboard the space shuttle Endeavour in 1992, working on experiments including bone cell research.

Dr. Mae Carol Jemison is a physician and retired astronaut. After her medical education and a brief…

Some Palestinian residents start to return to their homes after Israel's withdrawal leaving behind a huge destruction in Gaza's Khan Yunis anadoluimages.com/p/destruction-…

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Probably my favorite location to photograph in.
The Oculus. New York City. Copyright Phil Penman
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Maida Vale, London #streetphotography #blackandwhitephotography #rain #London

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Willis Winn, who told photographer Russell Lee that he was 116 years old when the photograph was taken in 1939, is pictured holding a horn with which plantation owners called slaves to work. Winn said his master told him that his birthday was March 10, 1822

When interviewed by…

Chemistry (pronounced kem-istry) comes from the Arabic word al-Kemi. It was so named after the nation of Kemet, the birthplace of the science of chemistry.

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