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Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane

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A color digital print photograph of Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane. The photograph features the pair dancing and wearing all black dance apparel. Jones is captured mid jump, up in the air, while Zane is standing with one leg pointed up and one on the ground, reaching forward with his arms. A drawing is featured on the backdrop behind them. The back of the photograph has a Jack Mitchell stamp with th

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Birmingham Police Armored Car

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A black-and-white photograph of an armored riot car used by the Birmingham Police Department, by Platon. The white car is depicted from the front. The hood of the car and the front tire wells are covered in white, sloped plated armor. The windshield is small, narrow, rectangular, and dark. Centered above the windshield is a smaller, rectangular window that is also dark. The roof of the car is cove

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Black Muslim Leader Malcolm X Photographing Cassius Clay

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This black and white photographic print depicts a candid shot of Malcolm X photographing Muhammad Ali. Malcom X stands behind the counter top of what appears to be a diner or bar with a camera held to his face, smiling as he focuses on Ali across the counter and to his right. Ali wears a bemused expression and rests his hands on the counter top. Seated at the counter and beyond to where the frame

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Black Power Button

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A black-and-white photograph of a Black Power pinback button, by Platon. The round, white pinback button features a black-and-white illustration of a Black power fist. The fist is diagonally oriented with the fist extending upwards from the bottom right side of the button towards the top left side. The background of the photograph is black. The photograph has a thick white border. The edition numb

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Blue Notes (Basquiat): Who's Who or a Pair of Aces #1

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A mixed media portrait titled Blue Notes (Basquiat): Who's Who or a Pair of Aces #1, by Carrie Mae Weems. The inkjet print features a blurred reproduction of Andy Warhol’s 1982 photographic portrait of Jean-Michel Basquiat printed in muted blue-gray tones. Basquiat is shown in bust pose from the shoulders up. He is wearing a medium tone jacket over a lighter dress shirt with a dark tie. Basquiat’s

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Blues Wake

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A black and white woodcut depicting two men sitting together. The man on the right faces the viewer and resembles blues singer Lead Belly (Huddie William Ledbetter). He sits with a guitar on his lap, his arms folded and resting on top of the guitar’s body. The man on the left is turned to face the man with the guitar, his face in profile to the viewer. Above the men is a round window. The backgrou

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Bob Moses, Diane Nash, and Reverend James Lawson

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A black-and-white photograph of Bob Moses, Diane Nash, and Reverend James Lawson, by Platon. The three subjects are depicted from the knees up, facing the viewer. The photograph’s perspective is from an angle that looks up at the three from about waist level. Nash stands at the center with Moses and Lawson on either side of her. Her arms are crossed over her waist, and she is holding hands with bo

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Bobby McFerrin

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A black-and-white photograph of Bobby McFerrin, by Platon. McFerrin is depicted seated with his proper right ankle crossed over his proper left leg. His proper left elbow is propped on the side of his proper right calf with his hand wrapped around the bicep of his proper right arm. His proper right arm is draped across his lap. He is smiling and looking up and to the left into the distance. His ch

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Bonz Malone - "The Slip Mahoney of Hip-Hop" The Palladium '93

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A color photograph of Bönz Malone. Malone is depicted sitting in a folding theater chair in three-quarters profile. He is looking at the viewer with his legs resting over the chair back in front of him and his elbows wrapped around his knees. He is wearing jeans, a jean jacket over a red shirt, and a rainbow baseball cap with a red propeller on the top. Beneath the image is a handwritten inscripti

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Brenda, Miss Black Trans New York 2017

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Milan is pictured from the hips up, standing against a dark grey background. She wears a long sleeve, black dress and his posing with her proper right hand on her hip. She is facing forward and looking to her right. Across her chest is a white sash reading [BTIPS NY MISS BLACK TRANS NEW YORK] in black text. Upon her head is a tall rhinestone tiara in an intricate design. There are no inscriptions,

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Bridge Workers

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A color screenprint with an abstracted image of construction workers on a bridge. Done in tones of grey and golden-brown, the print depicts the side and understructure of a bridge. Two figures stand on scaffolding under the bridge’s understructure. The figures and parts of the scaffolding and bridge are indistinct, depicted in negative space without ink. There is a wide white margin around the ima

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Brier Patch Blues

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A serigraph relief print depicting featuring a chine collé print of a nude female figure in the midst of dark red thorny vines. The figure of the woman is a white, chine collé print with dark lines traversing her body. Her left foot is turned slightly to the right. Her left hand cradles her right breast, while her right hand rests on her lower abdomen.

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