work on paper

What We Mean By Black Power
1960 - 2010

Top third of poster has a red background with text in green and black: "What / We Mean By / Black / Power". The bottom two thirds of the poster has an orange background and the text: "Self...

Every Day Is Another Day to Celebrate
2002

The poster has a black background overall. The top edge of the poster has a strip of brown with the text: "2003" and a row of small calendars for the months of January through June. The center of...

Big Black Is Beautiful
1960-2010

Poster has a large black and white photograph of a male figure in leopard print garment and hat playing two large wooden hand drums. The top edge of the poster has text in white: "Big Black". The...

untitled
c. 1985

Poster is printed overall with a color photograph of Alice Walker in her garden, she is kneeling, holding some pink flowers, and smiling as she looks back at the camera. Walker is wearing blue...

Brotherman: "Dictator of Discipline"
1992

Poster reads, "Brotherman 'Dictator of Discipline'." Image is a drawing of an African American super hero with a 'B' on the forehead of his mask and on his chest. He is wearing a blue and purple...

untitled (Malcolm X)
1990

Poster has a dark purple border around a black and white photo pf Malcolm X smiling. Below the photo is light tan text. It reads, "Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our...

untitled (Martin Luther King, Jr.)
c. 2004

Poster is a photograph of Martin Luther King, Jr. with a cross behind his left shoulder.

Strange Fruit: A Biography of a Song
2001

Poster has a black background with white text. Towards the left is an image of the book cover for Strange Fruit. The cover reads, "'David Margolick once again reminds me of the great emotions that...

2Pac
2002

Poster has a black background with red text. In the center is an image of 2Pac in front of marijuana leaves. His name appears in red above him and he is shirtless, wearing a necklace with a gun...

"I Believe That Everything You Do Bad Comes Back To You..."
1999

Poster has a black background with red text. Most of the poster displays a photograph of Tupac Shakur wearing a plaid shirt and brown bandanna on his head. His body is in profile with his face...

Keep The Faith Baby
Late 20th Century

Poster is a black and white photograph of an African American baby wearing a, "Keep The Faith Baby," button and standing in a field next to a woman. At the baby's feet is a CocaCola bottle.

untitled (woman and child)
c.1997
untitled (African American man)
2000

Poster is an image of an African American man at the different life stages moving from child, to young adult, to middle aged, and ending with an older man. The portrayals of different lifes stages...

Love-In
1969

Poster is a photograph of an African American male who is shirtless, carrying a naked Caucasian infant on his shoulders. Their image is in focus while the faces of people in the background are...

You Don't Have to be Jewish to Love Levy's
c. 1965

Poster has a white background with black text. In the center is a photograph of an African American boy smiling while holding a sandwich with a bite taken out of it. Poster reads, "You don't have...

What Happens To A Dream Deferred?
1969

Main image is a black and white photograph of an African American child wearing corduroy pants and a knit sweater. The child is standing in a corner with his/her hand next to his/her cheek. Next...

Think About It!
c. 1970

Main image is a photograph of a naked African American woman wearing just black knee high boots and strings of ammunition around her waist and her upper body. She is holding a rifle in her right...

Malcolm X
1991

Poster has an image of Malcolm X close up. He is speaking. Across the bottom is a yellow stripe with a red box. Poster reads, "Hisotry is a people's memory, and without a memory man is demoted to...

"For God So Loved The World..."
1984

Poster has a dark brown background with yellow text. In the center is an image of an African American Jesus Christ wearing a white tunic with his arms outstretched and a golden halo around his...

Am I Not A Man And A Brother?
1967

Background is white with black and red imagery and text. In the center is an collage of images in the shape of a heart. On each side of the artwork is a black panther, at the bottom is an image of...

Black Mushroom
c. 1975

Black light poster with a main image of two embracing and kissing figures in front of a multi colored background with a pattern that looks like marijuana leaves. Below the figures are several...

Brotherhood
1971

Poster has a black background with white and pink text. In the center is an image of four people in a hot air balloon floating in the night sky. "Brotherhood," is written across the balloon, pink...

American Pictures: Foundation for Humanitarian Aid to Africa
1981

Poster has a black background with brown text. In the center is a photograph of a child looking through a hole in a white screen. Poster reads, "American Pictures/ Foundation for Humanitarian Aid...

Brotherhood
1971

Poster has a black background with white and pink text. In the center is an image of four people in a hot air balloon floating in the night sky. "Brotherhood," is written across the balloon, pink...

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