Celia Cruz performing "Guantanamera" at a sound check in Kinshasa. Featuring Johnny Pacheco on flute.
Live at Zaire '74, the festival staged alongside the Rumble in the Jungle.
Food trucks used to sell you 3 of the best tacos you've had in your life for $5 cash only and then people with Masters degrees started buying them and now it's 3 of the worst tacos you've had in your life for $18.50 plus a recommended 20% tip
Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."
A Black child reported to her mother she was hit with a shoe at Destiny Development Center in Inglewood, California. The employee has been terminated but other staff lied in reports saying the child was crying because she fell off her cot.
Once in a while, I like to remind y’all that Brazilians are Africans. Here are youth practicing their presentation of the cacuriá dance traditional in the state of Maranhão, northeast Brazil.
John Singleton earned an Oscar nomination for Best Director at just 24 for Boyz n the Hood. In the 98 years the Academy’s existed, Singleton still holds the record as the category’s youngest nominee. We lost John in 2019 at just 51. He would’ve turned 58 today. A true pioneer. 🎂
“I’m not the guy you kill, I’m the guy you buy. Are you so fucking blind you don’t even see what I am? I sold out Arthur for 80 grand and a three year contract. I’m the easiest part of your problem and you’re going to kill me?”
Michael Clayton (2007)