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Rikki Byrd
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·Apr 10, 2020

Easter Sunday Is Peak Black Church Fashion: An Appreciation

From infants to elders, congregants make the pews their runway — There is an oft circulated black-and-white image that represents an array of Black diasporic tendencies, such as cool and style. In a photograph taken by Russell Lee in 1941 for the Farm Security Administration titled “Negro boys on Easter morning,” five young Black boys lean, sit, or stand on the…

Easter

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Easter Sunday Is Peak Black Church Fashion: An Appreciation
Easter Sunday Is Peak Black Church Fashion: An Appreciation
Easter

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Aug 2, 2016

To “Go Wherever We Please” — Blackness, Traveling and Freedom

My friend Chris likes to speed. Not as a hobby or a career, but just a regular guy who wants to arrive to his destination as quickly as possible. He’ll speed on the highway, on residential streets, on a parking lot depending on the amount of cars in sight. I’ve…

BlackLivesMatter

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To “Go Wherever We Please” — Blackness, Traveling and Freedom
To “Go Wherever We Please” — Blackness, Traveling and Freedom
BlackLivesMatter

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Rikki Byrd

Rikki Byrd

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Rikki Byrd is a scholar, writer and educator whose writing focuses on race, representation, fashion and visual culture. rikkibyrd.com

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