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Breakdance

A long playing record of "Breakdance.." by various artists. The record (2016.31.4.2a) is unopened and still in its plastic packaging. The record cover (2016.31.4.2b) has a depiction of a brick wall below a city skyline. Shadows of break-dancers and graffiti of the names of members of the New York City Breakers are visible on the wall. Yellow lettering at the top of the cover reads: [BREAKDANCE]. L

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Breakdance

2015.263.4a: An audio cassette tape. The cassette is white plastic with black type on each side. Both sides have headers reading: [SIDE ONE: WHEELS OF STEEL…] on Side 1, and [SIDE TWO: ELECTRIC SHOCKS...] on Side 2. Each header has a list of the tracks on each side. The K-tel Record logo, name of the cassette, copyright information, and the cassette number [PNU 3364] are featured on both sides.

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Breaking Chains

A headwrap with a pink exterior with chain designs. The fabric of the exterior has a pink background with a white chain design printed throughout it. Also printed throughout the exterior is a black design of a broken chain and a pink and black compass. The fabric of the exterior is gathered together to form a pouf and sewn at the top to hold it's shape. The interior of the headwrap is a maroon col

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Breaking and the New York City Breakers

A book written by Michael Holman called Breaking and the New York City Breakers. The cover features a colorful drawing of the New York City Breakers dancing on a city street. The interior contains 176 pages of information, photographs, a history of, and instructions on break dancing. It also features information about the dancers of the New York City Breakers. The frontispiece features an inscript

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Brenda Holmes, Ph.D., Oral History Interview

An oral history interview with Dr. Brenda Holmes. It consists of a single MOV file (.mov). Dr. Brenda Holmes was interviewed at her mother's home in Dublin, Virginia, on May 26, 2022, as part of the NMAAHC Donor Oral History Collection. The oral history supplements both an interview with her mother, Mrs. Mattie Payne Morrison Holmes (NMAAHC 2024.50.1.1), as well as a donation of several objects re

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Brenda, Miss Black Trans New York 2017

“The balls are a celebration of black and Latino urban gay life. They were born in Harlem out of a need for black and Latino gays to have a safe space to express themselves. Balls are constructed like beauty and talent pageants. The participants work to redefine and critique gender and sexual identity through an extravagant fashion masquerade. Women and men become fluid, interchangeable points of

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Brenda, Miss Black Trans New York 2017

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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Brentwood Road I

A digital illustration created by F. Jason Campbell. The illustration has thick, white margins on the top and bottom and centers an image of an all-white home interior with varying degrees of opacity. The home interior contains windows to the left, a couch off center to the left, and a piano in the back. There are four of Campbell’s family photographs depicted in color placed throughout interior.

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Breonna Taylor

Oil on linen portrait of Breonna Taylor. Taylor appears standing against a light blue-grey background, wearing a flowing blue dress. Her proper right hand rest on her hip, her left hand at her side. A delicate necklace with gold cross pendant is around her neck and an engagement ring is on her left hand. She gazes directly at the viewer.

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Brick Houses - Archer @ Greenwood - Tulsa, OK

A sepia toned digital image of woman sitting with her arms resting on her lap. A brick wall with windows and doors is in the background. Text below the image reads "1/6/2/64 - BRICK HOUSES - ARCHER@GREENWOD - TULSA, OK."

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Bridge Workers

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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Brief Encounter

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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