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On August 12, 1988, Jean-Michel Basquiat died in New York City at just 27 years old. His life was brief, but the mark he left on American art was enormous. Born in Brooklyn in 1960 to a Haitian American father and a Puerto Rican mother, Basquiat grew up surrounded by different languages, cultures, music and the energy of New York City. In the late 1970s, he began gaining attention through the graffiti and street-art scene under the name SAMO, a project he created with Al Diaz. What started on city walls eventually moved into galleries, where Basquiat developed a distinctive visual language filled with words, symbols, anatomical drawings, historical references, crowns, fragmented figures and repeated ideas about race, wealth, power and identity.
Basquiat became one of the most recognized artists of the 1980s, working alongside and eventually exhibiting with some of the most influential figures in the New York art world. His paintings confronted the absence and misrepresentation of Black people in mainstream art while also drawing attention to Black musicians, athletes, historical figures and cultural heroes. His success came incredibly quickly, and his work became highly sought after while he was still in his twenties. Yet the circumstances surrounding his rise also reflected the complicated relationship between Black artists, the art market and institutions that had historically excluded them. Basquiat died from a heroin overdose at his Manhattan studio on August 12, 1988. He was only 27. More than three decades later, his paintings continue to be exhibited, studied and debated, and his influence reaches far beyond galleries into fashion, music and contemporary visual culture. His story is a reminder that Basquiat was not simply a young artist who became famous. He was an important cultural figure who used art to question who gets represented, who gets remembered and who gets to define history. #BlackHistory #JeanMichelBasquiat #BlackArt
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In 1855, an accounting book from a Mississippi plantation impassively noted: "Mary, head field worker, 36 years old, mother of 22 children." Without commentary or context, this entry reflected the grim logic of slavery, reducing an enslaved woman—identified only by her name—and her children to mere economic figures. Other documents described her as a "breeder," a term that stripped away her identity and highlighted how forced motherhood was used as a strategy to increase wealth. Historical records reveal that the slave system integrated the reproductive exploitation of women as a core part of its economy.
OutKast did a 3 day weekend on their 20th anniversary. Dre’s iconic jumpsuits still gets talked about till this day. Day 1 was one of the greatest days of my life. 😂
🚨 Two teens left their friend to drown in Lake Ray Hubbard then immediately tried to cover it up by ditching his clothes and phone.
On April 13, 2026, 18-year-old Daniel Erving jumped into the lake with 19-year-old Lucas Roper and a 17-year-old near at Lake Ray Hubbard in Rowlett, Texas (Dallas-Fort Worth area). Erving drowned (reports do not specify exactly how) and instead of helping or calling for help, Roper and the juvenile fled in Roper’s car, threw Erving’s clothes into a tree line, and tossed his phone out the window. Roper later deleted all messages and calls with Erving from his own phone.
Roper was finally arrested on July 9 almost three months later and charged with tampering with evidence. He admitted he panicked and didn’t want to get in trouble.
This is what happens when people care more about saving their own asses than the person drowning right in front of them. Disgusting.
Sources: CBS Texas / Fox 4
When young Black men swim.
These young kings did the damn thing. Just when they thought we couldn’t swim! 😄 WATCH THIS…
Congratulations to them! Black excellence on display.
#BlackYouth#SwimMeet#Swimmers#BlackExcellence
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