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I Sang The Blues Black: 9 Holes

This framed mixed media portrait by Adebunmi Gbadebo is a composition of screen-printed white hand-made paper, cotton, clumps and strands of black hair and minimal indigo dye with reproductions of documents related to the True Blue Planation. The edges of the portrait are rough. In the center bottom of the portrait is a horizontal image of a tree line from the True Blue plantation. Near the bottom

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I Spy #1

I Spy No. 1 printed by Gold Key Comics. The front cover has a color image of Alexander Scott (Bill Cosby) and Kelly Robinson (Robert Culp), the main characters in the television show I Spy. Both men are in gray suits with ties and holding hand guns in their right hands. They are standing in profile with their left sides facing the viewer. They are looking up and to the left and have their guns rai

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I Spy #2

The second (#2) I Spy comic book printed in 1967. Front cover has a color image of Alexander Scott (Bill Cosby) and Kelly Robinson (Robert Culp), characters in the TV show "I Spy," posing in front of a sky (blue with clouds) backdrop. Cosby is standing wearing a light blue cardigan with his hands on Culp's shoulders. Culp is sitting wearing a white pull-over with a black and red lined v-neck, and

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I Spy #3

The third (#3) I Spy comic book printed in 1967. Front cover has a color image of Alexander Scott (Bill Cosby) and Kelly Robinson (Robert Culp), characters in the TV show "I Spy" standing back to back holding hand guns up and looking back towards each other. Culp, on the left, is in a blue pull over cardigan with the gun in his PR hand, and Cosby, on the right, is in a tan sweater with an orange u

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I Spy #4

The fourth (#4) I Spy comic book printed in 1967. Front cover has a color image of close-ups of Alexander Scott (Bill Cosby) and Kelly Robinson (Robert Culp), characters in the TV show "I Spy," Culp, on the left, is in a blue button up with a red jacket over top, and Cosby, on the right, is in a pin-striped suit holding a gun with his PR hand, leaning over a suitcase. Blocks of color make up the b

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I Started Out As a Child

A 33 1/3 rpm record album titled I Started Out As a Child recorded by Bill Cosby. The front of the record sleeve features a color photograph of Bill Cosby smiling and looking in to the camera. Cosby is wearing a black suit jacket, red plaid dress shirt, and black tie. The front cover has red and black text, which reads: “STEREO / WARNER BROS. / RECORDS / 1567 / “i / started / out / as a / child” /

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I Will Fight No More Forever

This film was a part of the Washington D.C. Public Library's circulating 16mm film collection housed at the Martin Luther King Jr. Central Library. The collection is particularly noted for the wide variety of African American and African diaspora content.

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I am in all creation and all creation is in me

A framed artwork titled “I am in all creation and all of creation is in me” by Victor Ekpuk. Against a white background, the work depicts a center circle, half beige, half blue, bisected by a single line. The line extends above the circle, where it becomes a tree or leaf, and below the circle, where it wraps around in a rectilinear fashion to form the figure of a person. The continuous line forms

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I am the black woman

This color linocut depicts a close-up of a woman's face. The face is turned a quarter turn away from the viewer. There is a handwritten title below the image in pencil. It is signed by the artist on the bottom right. The back is blank.

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I have always worked hard in America

This black and white linocut depicts three women cleaning. In the foreground is a woman on her hands and knees scrubbing the floor. Wearing a long skirt and a loose shirt with the sleeves rolled up past her elbows, she holds a balled up rag in her right hand. There is a bucket next to her. Behind her are two other women, both bending over buckets and wringing out rags. Both women wear a calf lengt

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I have given the world my songs

This color linocut depicts a woman playing a guitar. Wearing a knee-length dress, she is seated on a square four legged stool. Her sleeves are rolled up to her elbows and she rests the guitar on her lap. In the background is a small vignette, done in bright blue tones that depict a man in a hood attacking another man. Below them is a large burning cross. There is a handwritten title below the imag

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I have special reservations

Black and white linocut of passengers on a bus. The first bus seat in the foreground has a [COLORED ONLY] sign at the top. There are four unidentified women seated behind this sign. The central woman in front is wearing a textured jacket. The title is handwritten in graphite below the image and the work is signed. The reverse is blank.

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<I>I Sang The Blues Black: 9 Holes</I>

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<I>I Started Out As a Child</I>

<I>I Will Fight No More Forever</I>

<I>I am in all creation and all creation is in me</I>

<I>I am the black woman</I>

<I>I have always worked hard in America</I>

<I>I have given the world my songs</I>

<I>I have special reservations</I>