Showing posts tagged 80's

thechanelmuse:

Muhammad Ali helps talk a suicidal man off the ninth floor of a high-rise structure in LA (1981) 

julyshewillfly:

Lovers at the Castro Street Fair, 1983 by Rink Foto

so-treu:

“Following the New Cross Fire and march, and after several years of balatant provocation by the British State and the far right, African (Black) youth finally reached boiling point. Starting in Brixton in south London, the summer of 1981 saw urban rebellions break out in inner city areas across the country. This level of militancy continued through the 1980s.”

snippet from The Windrush Years, a documentary on black Caribbean life in England. relevant.

Untitled (History of the Black People) by Jean-Michel Basquiat