A scene painted on the side of a casket of Tutankhamun depicting a battle against the Nubians. This detail shows wounded or dead Nubian soldiers and horses jumbled together in a scene of chaos, from the Tomb of Tutankhamun (KV62). New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, reign of Tutankhamun, ca. 1332-1323 BC. Valley of the Kings, West Thebes. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
(Source: grandegyptianmuseum, via geddion)
Journalist Charles Shaar Murray Remembers
Bob Marley At The Hammersmith Odeon, 1976:“Trenchtown Rock’ filled the hall, occupying space and time like a solid object. Down front it was like dancing in the middle of a choir while simultaneously getting a full massage – plus you could watch the band with the I Threes dignifiedly swaying in the breeze and Marley moving fluid behind the centre mike, radiating the strange kind of intensity of presence that a small man can use to dominate a stage.”
“The band generated what seemed like infinite quantities of energy with virtually no apparent effort; a judoka’s mastery of stress and balance and pressure. Family Man Barrett’s bass was a huge granite Odin humming in the bath and the guitars did almost as much dancing as the audience.”
Photographer: Steve Joester
Location Of Photograph: Hammersmith Odeon, London, England. 06/16/76
Today is the 147th anniversary of John Brown’s execution. In 1859, Brown led a raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry, to start a liberation movement among the slaves there. During the raid, he seized the armory; seven people were killed, and ten or more were injured. He intended to arm slaves with weapons from the arsenal, but the attack failed. Within 36 hours, Brown’s men had fled or been killed or captured by local pro-slavery farmers, militiamen, and U.S. Marines led by Robert E. Lee. He was tried for treason against the Commonwealth of Virginia, the murder of five men and inciting a slave insurrection.
(via geddion)
Born Lloyd George Robert in 1942, Ras Daniel Heartman was a prominent Jamaican artist and religious leader. He was a member of the Rastafari group called the Church Triumphant, and is considered one of the most recognized artists in the Rastafarian art movement. Some of his prints were among the Youth Pride, Inc. papers housed at Howard University’s Moorland-Spingarn Research Library, including “Chanting Brethren,” “Prince Emanuel”(1972), and “Daniel in the Lions Den,” the first of his prints sold as a reproduction by popular demand. The prints reflect the Rastafarian struggle for self-determination of their identity in Jamaica and abroad in the 1970s.
Post submitted by Julie Mathieu, DCAAP Processing Assistant
(via geddion)
“Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind, I tell you. In fact, others seem to be bothering you, but it is not others, it is your own mind.”
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar: What Is Meditation?
(via goddessoftheblackcoast)
Detail of the Egyptian Pharoah Taharqa of the 25th dynasty
Piazza Venezia, Trieste, ItalyBlack Pharoah.
(via musashi-no-kami)
“A Family Council,” illustration from Story of the Bible Animals by J.G. Wood, 1888
(Source: fatalbellman, via femalehyena)
Stanisław Ostoja-Chrostowski (Poland, 1897 -1947)
Escape into Egypt 1930
(via the-unknown-friend)
