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#OnThisDay in 1831, Nat Turner led a rebellion of enslaved people in Southampton County, Virginia.

This early example of colonial rebellion and resistance represented a deep yearning enslaved Black Americans had to be free. #NMAAHCFutures

Published by Unidentified Owned by Turner, Nat, American, 1800 - 1831 Date 1830s Medium ink on paper (fiber product) Dimensions H x W x D: 4 15/16 x 3 1/2 x 1 1/2 in. (12.5 x 8.9 x 3.8 cm) Description A small Bible, missing its front and back cover. It has lost pages at the beginning and end of the text, losing the entirety of Genesis and parts of Leviticus and Revelation.

The first page contains Leviticus 4:32 through Leviticus 6:2. Place used Southampton County, Virginia, United States, North and Central America Classification Slavery and Freedom ObjectsDocuments and Published Materials-Published WorksReligious and Sacred Objects Type Bibles Topic Christianity FaithPreachingReligionResistanceSlaveryU.S. History, 1815-1861 Credit Line Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Maurice A. Person and Noah and Brooke Porter Object number 2011.28

#Nat Turner #anti slavery #This early example of colonial rebellion and resistance represented a deep yearning enslaved Black Americans had to be free. #NMAAHCFutures #virginia #revolts

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Started today very early @nmaahc for a preview of the fantastic Afrofuturism exhibit. #NMAAHCFutures #afrofuturism (at Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqLwzMNup_R/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#nmaahcfutures #afrofuturism

[sistahscifi]

We squealed when we saw this on Ytasha Womack's timeline....like for real fan girl, high pitched, hands on mouth squealed! We had been waiting for the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) exhibition on Afrofuturism for MONTHS (which is forever in fangirl time!), but this literary companion piece is EVERYTHING. Our CEO/founder, @IsisAsare, is getting two copies. One for her and one for her partner before they visit the exhibition Monday, May 8th. If you also want a copy, you can preorder from us: @SistahScifi | www.sistahscifi.com | https://sistahscifi.com/products/preorder-afrofuturism-a-history-of-black-futures. Better yet, check it out from your favorite #library 😍. Today, we are highlighting @silibraries. Reposted @ysolstar AFROFUTURISM: A HISTORY OF BLACK FUTURES debuts March 21st. This stellar book accompanies the Afrofuturism exhibit at the National Museum of African American History & Culture @nmaahc @smithsonian which opens March 24th. Edited by @kstrait35 and Kinshasa Holman Conwell, this book features essays on Afrofuturist comics, art, music, theory and more. I contributed two essays to this beauty of a book. There are contributions by some of my faves including @johnjenningsart @eve.ewing @alishabwormsley @alondranelson @bookerbbbrown @vurnt22 Nona Hendrix, Reynaldo Anderson and art by @therealkristaf @staceyarobinson @timfielder and so many more. Foreword by Kevin Young. Cover art by Wayne Hodges @wayne.hodge.165 Quite the collectors item. Preorders in bio. #Afrofuturism #Smithsonian #SistahScifi Reposted @nmaahc Our museum’s newest exhibition, “Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures” opens Friday, March 24. On view until March 24, 2024, the exhibition explores and reveals Afrofuturism’s engagement with African American history and popular culture. Among the exhibition highlights: 🔘 Octavia Butler’s typewriter 🔘 Red Starfleet uniform worn by Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Nyoto Uhura on “Star Trek” 🔘 Black Panther costume worn by Chadwick Boseman 🔘 George Clinton’s wig from Parliament-Funkadelic Click the link in the bio to learn more: @sistahscifi. #NMAAHCFutures (at Sistah Scifi) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp5zc5lyJHV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#library #afrofuturism #smithsonian #sistahscifi #nmaahcfutures

[mokhosz]

#OnThisDay in 1983, Herbie Hancock released his groundbreaking album “Future Shock” which incorporated rap, hip hop and Afrofuturistic sounds with jazz using innovative music technology. Using a combination of scratching, drum machines, and synthesized keyboards, “Future Shock” sold more than 1.5 million copies worldwide. The music video of the hit single “Rockit,” directed by duo Kevin Godley & Lol Crème, also became widely successful for its visionary, futristic aesthetic. The music video for “Rockit” also broke vast new ground, featuring robot-like sculptures and mannequins that walked, danced, gyrated to the music. The video garnered five MTV Video Music Awards in 1984, including Best Concept Video and Best Special Effects.

Hancock, who was born in 1940, helped develop software and pioneer the use of computers in the studio. He used his Memorymoog synthesizer, used to experiment with sounds in the 1980s, which is currently on loan from National Museum of American History in our #NMAAHCFutures exhibition.

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✊🏿#ArtIsAWeapon

#MondayMotivation

#MoodForever

Giving thanks to our ancestor #NATTURNER

for his service and sacrifice, and for providing the blueprint for #BlackLiberation!!

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#Artwork: "Portrait of Nat Turner with the Head of his Master"

#Artist: #KerryJamesMarshall

I stared at this masterpiece for a good while and smiled from the inside out when I saw it at The Metropolitan Museum of Art a few years ago!

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📸Images 2&3, and caption reposted from @nmaahc #OnThisDay [August 21] in 1831, Nat Turner led a rebellion of enslaved people in Southampton County, Virginia. This early rebellion and resistance represented a deep yearning enslaved Black Americans had towards freedom from slavery and deliverance from the persistent presence of racism.

Born in enslaved in 1800, Turner believed he was called by God to deliver his people from slavery. He used his talent as a preacher and radical orator to convince others to join his revolt. The group of rebels marched throughout Southampton County killing at least 55 people, including his master’s family, until authorities crushed the revolt. Turner avoided capture for nearly 2 months before he was caught tried in the Southampton County Court and hanged on November 11, 1831. Turner’s revolt sent shockwaves throughout the South, as many began to fear the possibility of future slave revolts and violent rebellion. In retaliation, many state and local governments throughout the South passed laws restricting enslaved people’s lives in response to Nat Turner’s rebellion.

During the colonial period, anti-slavery practices from rebellions, abolitionist oration, metaphorical literature, and more, provided African Americans with the means to navigate oppression, emboldening them to create cultural heroes and figurative spaces of community and empowerment.

#NMAAHCFutures

📸 2. 3. (detail and full view) Bible belonging to Nat Turner. Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Maurice A. Person and Noah and Brooke Porter

#Freedom #Rebellion #NatTurnerRebellion #BlackPower #Hero #BlackArtists #Abolition #BlackGirlArtGeeks

#NatTurner #Rebellion #NatTurnersRebellion #BlackLiberation #KerryJamesMarshall #BlackArtists #BlackGirlArtGeeks #NMAAHC #Freedom #ArtIsAWeapon

[sistahscifi]

Just when we thought we couldn't geek out about Afrofuturism: A History of Black Future any more, Pentagram Design gives us insight into the typefaces and cover design for the exhibition and the book!!!

Guess what? We are in stock! @SistahScifi | www.sistahscifi.com | https://sistahscifi.com/products/afrofuturism-a-history-of-black-futures.

Better yet, check it out from your local #library!

Reposted @pentagramdesign From the cosmologies of ancient Black civilizations to the era of slavery and the present day, African Americans have reimagined the futures and possibilities across the globe through Afrofuturism. This ever-evolving concept is explored in “Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures,” a major exhibition on view @nmaahc in Washington, DC. #EddieOpara and team have designed the companion volume from @smithsonian_books, complete with custom typography inspired by iconic objects in the exhibition.

Three custom display typefaces reference artifacts in the show. These include Parliament Medium and Luke Cage Comic, adapted by the Pentagram designers from the logos on Parliament’s “Mothership Connection” album cover and Marvel’s Luke Cage comic book, respectively. The third typeface is VTC Du Bois, designed by Tré Seals of @vocaltype.co and based on W.E.B. Du Bois’ hand-drawn lettering. (The Pentagram team also developed a typeface inspired by zigzag lettering on the Betty Davis album “They Say I’m Different,” but it was ultimately not used.) Supporting type is set in Halyard by Joshua Darden.

The front cover features a detail of “Android/Negroid #14” by @wayne.hodge.165. The back cover recreates a work by @alishabwormsley from her series, “There Are Black People in the Future.”

Project team: #EddieOpara @junjunjun.g

#Afrofuturism #NationalMuseumofAfricanAmericanHistoryandCulture #NMAAHC #NMAAHCFutures #SistahScifi

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🖤🎶#ArtIsAWeapon

#BlackMusicMonth spotlight - Curtis Mayfield

Reposted from @nmaahc #OnThisDay in 1942, singer Curtis Mayfield was born. The Chicago native started playing the guitar at age 10 and made his first recordings in 1958 as a member of The Impressions. Influenced heavily by his grandmother’s Travelling Soul Spiritualists’ Church, Mayfield began to infuse gospel music with messages of uplift and racial pride. When combined with Chicago electric blues, it created Mayfield’s signature sound and helped give voice to the struggles of everyday Black Americans.

“I found myself being able to put things into lyrics and with messages, a way of making you turn your head whether you liked it or not — the important thing was that it was on your mind,” Mayfield said in a 1976 interview with reporter David Nathan. “It was very right for the times — the Sixties were a time when all minorities had to deal with what was going on around them.”

Songs like “Keep on Pushing,” “People Get Ready,” and “We’re a Winner” established Mayfield as one of the first singer-songwriters to bring social commentary to the pop charts. Mayfield also captured the sound of soulful popular cinema by penning and performing the scores and soundtracks to movie hits like “Superfly,” “Claudine,” “Sparkle,” and “A Piece of the Action.” He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with The Impressions (1991) and as a solo artist (1999).

#BlackMusicMonth #APeoplesGroove #NMAAHCFutures

📸 Johnson Publishing Company Archive. Courtesy J. Paul Getty Trust and Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture