Kwadwo Duane Deterville
@kwadwodeterville.bsky.social
Artist, Writer, Scholar of Visual Culture and itinerant Africana Studies Lecturer
Pinned
The image is mightier than the sword. The manipulation of the image is narrative control at its most fundamental levels. #VisualCulture
Insightful commentary on #MilesDavis from writer #QuincyTroupe
‘Round Miles: Quincy Troupe on the Life and Music of Miles Davis
YouTube video by Simply Charly
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November 18, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Insightful commentary on #MilesDavis from writer #QuincyTroupe
Ebony magazine celebrates 80th anniversary
YouTube video by CBS Chicago
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November 18, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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Chattel Slavery itself didn't end because of any moral or ethical awakening by European/white peoples but because of capitalism changing from an agrarian age into an industrial age that ushered in wage exploitation. Wage exploitation was more profitable for the ruling class.
Britain didn’t end the slave trade out of compassion.
YouTube video by Waa Sere
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November 15, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Chattel Slavery itself didn't end because of any moral or ethical awakening by European/white peoples but because of capitalism changing from an agrarian age into an industrial age that ushered in wage exploitation. Wage exploitation was more profitable for the ruling class.
Chattel Slavery itself didn't end because of any moral or ethical awakening by European/white peoples but because of capitalism changing from an agrarian age into an industrial age that ushered in wage exploitation. Wage exploitation was more profitable for the ruling class.
Britain didn’t end the slave trade out of compassion.
YouTube video by Waa Sere
youtu.be
November 15, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Chattel Slavery itself didn't end because of any moral or ethical awakening by European/white peoples but because of capitalism changing from an agrarian age into an industrial age that ushered in wage exploitation. Wage exploitation was more profitable for the ruling class.
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For Artforum’s November 2025 issue, Editor in Chief Tina Rivers Ryan sat down with Studio Museum director Thelma Golden and curator Connie H. Choi to discuss Tom Lloyd and the Studio Museum in Harlem. www.artforum.com/features/int...
Electronic Refractions
Tina Rivers Ryan interviews Thelma Golden and Connie H. Choi on the artist Tom Lloyd and the Studio Museum in Harlem.
www.artforum.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:44 PM
For Artforum’s November 2025 issue, Editor in Chief Tina Rivers Ryan sat down with Studio Museum director Thelma Golden and curator Connie H. Choi to discuss Tom Lloyd and the Studio Museum in Harlem. www.artforum.com/features/int...
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Neo-colonial control of historical narratives through control of the image #film #VisualCulture “It just came back to this idea of neo-colonialism coming back in a subtle form where you took an image violently from a colony and then the former colony has to pay to access images you took by force.”
Nigerian Filmmakers Struggle to Access Archival Footage
Nigerian documentary filmmakers struggle to access archival footage in Nigerian institutions and Western archives like the BFI due to high costs and unclear rules
www.okayafrica.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Amerikkka is a real life horror movie. The white status quo likes to gloss over the generational trauma that is the legacy of chattel slavery but history keeps Indicting their ancestors.
Nat Turner’s skull is returned to descendants after nearly 200 years
A skull that is believed to have belonged to Nat Turner has been turned over to Turner's descendants.
thegrio.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Amerikkka is a real life horror movie. The white status quo likes to gloss over the generational trauma that is the legacy of chattel slavery but history keeps Indicting their ancestors.
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Jeffrey Epstein to Lawrence Summers (both of whom are very bad people):
“i have met some very bad people , none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body. so yes- dangerous”
“i have met some very bad people , none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body. so yes- dangerous”
November 13, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Jeffrey Epstein to Lawrence Summers (both of whom are very bad people):
“i have met some very bad people , none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body. so yes- dangerous”
“i have met some very bad people , none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body. so yes- dangerous”
Amerikkka is a real life horror movie. The white status quo likes to gloss over the generational trauma that is the legacy of chattel slavery but history keeps Indicting their ancestors.
Nat Turner’s skull is returned to descendants after nearly 200 years
A skull that is believed to have belonged to Nat Turner has been turned over to Turner's descendants.
thegrio.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Amerikkka is a real life horror movie. The white status quo likes to gloss over the generational trauma that is the legacy of chattel slavery but history keeps Indicting their ancestors.
Neo-colonial control of historical narratives through control of the image #film #VisualCulture “It just came back to this idea of neo-colonialism coming back in a subtle form where you took an image violently from a colony and then the former colony has to pay to access images you took by force.”
Nigerian Filmmakers Struggle to Access Archival Footage
Nigerian documentary filmmakers struggle to access archival footage in Nigerian institutions and Western archives like the BFI due to high costs and unclear rules
www.okayafrica.com
November 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Neo-colonial control of historical narratives through control of the image #film #VisualCulture “It just came back to this idea of neo-colonialism coming back in a subtle form where you took an image violently from a colony and then the former colony has to pay to access images you took by force.”
Nigerian Filmmakers Struggle to Access Archival Footage
Nigerian documentary filmmakers struggle to access archival footage in Nigerian institutions and Western archives like the BFI due to high costs and unclear rules
www.okayafrica.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Neo-colonial control of historical narratives through control of the image #film #VisualCulture “It just came back to this idea of neo-colonialism coming back in a subtle form where you took an image violently from a colony and then the former colony has to pay to access images you took by force.”
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If Food Stamps only benefited Black people it would not exist.
November 3, 2025 at 8:21 PM
If Food Stamps only benefited Black people it would not exist.
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White people using the term "woke" sound like Pat Boone singing a cover of Little Richard's "tootie fruity".
November 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
White people using the term "woke" sound like Pat Boone singing a cover of Little Richard's "tootie fruity".
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We are cooking up a short, wild, gorgeously illustrated run for T’Challa. Facing foes he has never seen before. It’s going to be a blast.
🚀🐾 #BlackPanther: Intergalactic blasts T’Challa into deep space and beyond his limits.
@davidbrooke.bsky.social spoke with @victorlavalle.bsky.social about his cosmic new #MarvelComics saga and T’Challa’s evolution from king to emperor (plus unlettered preview!) 👑✨
Read the interview here #comicsky:
@davidbrooke.bsky.social spoke with @victorlavalle.bsky.social about his cosmic new #MarvelComics saga and T’Challa’s evolution from king to emperor (plus unlettered preview!) 👑✨
Read the interview here #comicsky:
Victor LaValle sends Black Panther to the edge of the galaxy — and beyond his breaking point
We caught up with writer Victor LaValle about his upcoming 'Black Panther: Intergalactic' starting in December.
aiptcomics.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:52 PM
We are cooking up a short, wild, gorgeously illustrated run for T’Challa. Facing foes he has never seen before. It’s going to be a blast.
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Today it is 55 years since the recording of Alice Coltrane's album Journey in Satchidananda (except for the track "Isis and Osiris," which was recorded July 4, 1970).
Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda (1971) [Full Album]
YouTube video by Cubensis Records
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November 8, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Today it is 55 years since the recording of Alice Coltrane's album Journey in Satchidananda (except for the track "Isis and Osiris," which was recorded July 4, 1970).
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Undiscovered Genius, 1983
https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5274
https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5274
November 8, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Undiscovered Genius, 1983
https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5274
https://botfrens.com/collections/27/contents/5274
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Just a PSA: The new mayor of New York has a BA in Africana Studies and his moma was the director of the underground classic Denzel Washington #film “Mississippi Masala”. #ZohranMamdani
November 5, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Just a PSA: The new mayor of New York has a BA in Africana Studies and his moma was the director of the underground classic Denzel Washington #film “Mississippi Masala”. #ZohranMamdani
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The Night When Charlie Parker Played for Igor Stravinsky (1951)
The Night When Charlie Parker Played for Igor Stravinsky (1951)
It thrills to hear of the time in 1951 when Charlie Parker added one more story to the most storied jazz club of all by performing for Igor Stravinsky at Birdland.
www.openculture.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:39 AM
The Night When Charlie Parker Played for Igor Stravinsky (1951)
Just a PSA: The new mayor of New York has a BA in Africana Studies and his moma was the director of the underground classic Denzel Washington #film “Mississippi Masala”. #ZohranMamdani
November 5, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Just a PSA: The new mayor of New York has a BA in Africana Studies and his moma was the director of the underground classic Denzel Washington #film “Mississippi Masala”. #ZohranMamdani
"With music you can express any emotion, you can paint pictures." - Sun Ra #quote
November 4, 2025 at 12:10 AM
White people using the term "woke" sound like Pat Boone singing a cover of Little Richard's "tootie fruity".
November 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
White people using the term "woke" sound like Pat Boone singing a cover of Little Richard's "tootie fruity".
If Food Stamps only benefited Black people it would not exist.
November 3, 2025 at 8:21 PM
If Food Stamps only benefited Black people it would not exist.
Reposted by Kwadwo Duane Deterville
November 2, 2025 at 4:16 AM