Family living situation in Chicago slums, 1954.
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“The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.” - Virginia Woolf
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“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.” - James Baldwin
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"There’s this inescapable moment in your early 20s, no matter how you get there, of feeling like everything you’ve known up until then is either wrong or doesn’t fit, and suddenly you’re faced with this feeling of ‘Who the (heck) am I? How do I do life? HOW is life DONE?"
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Coretta Scott King was born 86 years ago today in Marion, Alabama. Mrs. King was a graduate of Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio (B.A. Music Education, 1951) and the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston (Mus.B. in voice, 1954). In this photo, she is flashing the peace sign at an anti-war rally at the White House on May 9, 1970. She was one of over 100,000 demonstrators who attended the rally to protest the war in Vietnam and Cambodia. Photo: Benjamin E. “Gene” Forte/CNP/Corbis.
Brilliant scholar, activist and author Angela Davis, photographed in 1973 by the legendary photographer Philippe Halsman. Filmmaker Shola Lynch Free Angela has just released an AMAZING documentary about the iconic Ms. Davis. Photo: Philippe Halsman/Magnum Photos.
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