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jeniusj @jeniusj.blacksky.app · 8h

Yesss! So many 🙌🏽🙌🏽👌🏽

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jeniusj @jeniusj.blacksky.app · 12h

Calida Rawles: Thy Name We Praise (2023)

#art
#blackart

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jeniusj @jeniusj.blacksky.app · 12h

💙💙😍

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jeniusj @jeniusj.blacksky.app · 12h

This is my cover art or whatever it is called, I love it so much

jeniusj @jeniusj.blacksky.app · 21h

Choose 20 paintings that have stayed with you or influenced you; one painting per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanation, no review, just paintings

20/20:
Radcliffe Bailey: Door of No Return (2007)

#art
#blackart
#blueskyartchallenge

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jeniusj @jeniusj.blacksky.app · 12h

Summer Walker is coming soon and I couldn't be more excited

I hope I like it as much as I liked her last 4 projects 🙌🏽🫶🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

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ismua ᴮˡᵘᵉˢᵏʸ ᴱˡᵈᵉʳ📯 🌈⛵💜 @ismua.bsky.social · 11d

#GoodAcoustics 🎸
#MusicChallenge 🎶

Day 2️⃣8️⃣:

🗣️ Summer Walker
🔊 CPR

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jeniusj @jeniusj.blacksky.app · 19h

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 1d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 1d

You will be someone else

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HERbron James 🐐 @meekayelah.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re able, please support Rudy and his team as they continue to build a separate community for us on #blacksky! They deserve all the support for how they’ve handled things from day 1 for our community.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 20h

TUNE INTO MY FRIEND'S WAWA'S INTERVIEW ON THE DAILY SHOW WITH JOSH JOHNSON!!!!!!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZoB...

Wawa Gatheru - Closing the Climate Work Gap Through Black Girl Environmentalist | The Daily Show

YouTube video by The Daily Show

www.youtube.com

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jeniusj @jeniusj.blacksky.app · 20h

Yea that album and tour brought me out of Beyoncé retirement

E 😎 @iad0reme.bsky.social · 20h

The Renaissance era will always hold a special place in my heart 🪩

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jeniusj @jeniusj.blacksky.app · 20h

Me toooooo! 🙌🏽🙌🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽

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Ms. “Aries’s Groove” @pardonmypetty.bsky.social · 20h

I love when fashion is fun & she does it so well!

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jeniusj @jeniusj.blacksky.app · 20h

Yesss her pieces have always been so fun! And yea... those were the days 🥲😩

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nancy 🦋✨ @nancyk5.bsky.social · 2d

I am obsessed with Duchess of Sussex makeup look. Daniel did an outstanding job.

#sussexsquad #fashionsky

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nancy 🦋✨ @nancyk5.bsky.social · 1d

Zimmerman Spring 2026
#fashionsky

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jeniusj @jeniusj.blacksky.app · 21h

Would LOVE to have some of these pieces 😍😍🧚🏽‍♀️🧚🏽‍♀️

𝒞𝒶𝓂𝒾𝓁𝒶 🩰 @tsukinoningyo.bsky.social · 1d

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#fashionsky #rtw #girlysky

Betsey Johnson Ready to Wear Fashion Runway Collection Women Spring Summer 1999

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jeniusj @jeniusj.blacksky.app · 21h

Eek...

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jeniusj @jeniusj.blacksky.app · 21h

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Michael @mdstamper.bsky.social · 10d

“Bid ’Em In/Slave (Angie)” by Barkley L. Hendricks (American) - Oil and acrylic on canvas / 1973 - Sheldon Museum of Art (Lincoln, Nebraska) #WomenInArt #art #artText #artwork #BarkleyL.Hendricks #Hendricks #BarkleyHendricks #SheldonMuseumofArt #PortraitofaWoman #BlackArt #AfricanAmericanArtist

African American artist Barkley L. Hendricks created this 1973 full-length portrait of a Black woman standing against an unbroken pink field. Her skin is a warm coffee brown with subtle highlights along her shoulders, knees, and cheekbones. She wears a fitted white tank top printed with the word “SLAVE” across the chest, dark maroon shorts, and sleek knee-high black boots. Her arms are crossed; one leg angles forward so her weight sits on her back hip, projecting poise and refusal. A round afro frames her face. Large tinted sunglasses partially veil her eyes, yet her stance reads as unmistakably direct. The flat, shadowless background removes spatial cues, centering her presence. There are no props or context so that access begins with what she asserts and with what history inscribes upon Black women’s bodies.

The painting compresses centuries of commodification into the present tense. The title nods to “Bid ’Em In,” Oscar Brown Jr.’s searing performance of a slave auctioneer’s chant, a reminder that language itself once priced women’s lives. Hendricks seizes that history and counters it with Angie’s self-possession: crossed arms, planted feet, and cool fashion. His portraits, he said, were “about people that were part of my life… If they were political, it’s because they were a reflection of the culture we were drowning in.”

Here, the politics arrive through clarity via the blunt word on the shirt colliding with a subject who will not bend to it. The pink field is both seductive and disarming, pulling our gaze to the body that history tried to name. Hendricks hallmark monochrome background, strips away distractions so that style, attitude, and dignity do the work of re-humanization.

At over 6 feet tall, the canvas enforces a face-to-face encounter that museums long denied to Black women. Angie’s presence turns the auctioneer’s call inside out: the look, the stance, and the cool all bid us to witness not an object for sale, but a person on her own terms.

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Welcome to the Boomtown @boomtownpodcast.bsky.social · 2d

40 years ago today, Jem (1985-1988) premiered. #80s #80sTV

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jeniusj @jeniusj.blacksky.app · 21h

Let It Flow
Take This Ring
How Many Ways
You're Makin Me High

Rated R&B @ratedrnb.com · 1d

Happy 58th Birthday to Toni Braxton! 🎉💜

What are 4️⃣ of your favorite songs by her?

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jeniusj @jeniusj.blacksky.app · 21h

How many ways is one of my favs too! 🥰🥰

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