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Betye Saar, pioneering figure of Black arts movement, dies at 99 https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/jul/27/betye-saar-death #Art #BlackCulture #Obituary

Betye Saar, Artist Who Upended Black Stereotypes, Dies at 99 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/arts/design/betye-saar-dead.html #Art #Obituary #BlackCulture

Six Years After a Reckoning, Criterion Puts 'Cinematic Blackness' in Focus https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/movies/criterion-collection-black-film.html #Film #BlackCulture #Cinema

Six Years After a Reckoning, Criterion Puts 'Cinematic Blackness' in Focus https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/arts/six-years-after-a-reckoning-criterion-puts-cinematic-blackness-in-focus.html #Film #BlackCulture #Cinema

Turns out many people have been using “Unc” all wrong. “You’d never know the meaning of 'Unc' or its origins in black culture if you looked to mainstream media, and sometimes even independent media,” Gita Jackson writes for @Aftermath@flipboard.com. So, here’s what it means and how slang terms that originate from African American Vernacular English — “chopped,” “clocked it,” “the tea,” “no cap,” and “it’s giving” — sometimes get miscategorized. Plus, a pull quote that might stay with you for a while: “Non-black people want to take everything from us except the weight of our history.” https://flip.it/4ZmjNe #Culture #BlackCulture #InternetCulture #AfricanAmerican #BlackMastodon

Harlem Renaissance started in 1917 Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_Renaissance Great Depression started in 1929 Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression#blackhistory #blackculture #ushistory #americanhistory #history #whitehistory #blackmastodon