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Mar 19, 2022

You can murder a liberator but you can’t murder liberation.

1st anniversary of deputy chairman of the Black Panther Party Fred Hampton’s murder, 1970

They may kill the revolutionary… but never the revolution.

1st anniversary of deputy member of the IRA Bobby Sands death, 1982

Murdered by Facist Pigs
Dec. 4, 1969

Murdered by Britain,
May 5th 1981

Fred Hampton was 21 when he was drugged and shot while unconscious in his bed next to his pregnant wife by Chicago police in collaboration with the FBI.

Bobby Sands was 27 when he succumbed to a hunger strike protesting treatment of IRA political prisoners by British authorities

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Mar 16, 2022

In 1964 Soviet artists Bronisław Kurago, Viktor Sahaidachny, and Slava Cherevko set out to make portraits for African students studying in Moscow. More than a half-century later Kurago released 35 of these portraits. Read the article for context and added sentimentality. (Thread)

Ayo Olaya from Nigeria

Student from Zanzibar

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Oct 23, 2021

Russian outsider artist Alexander Lobanov (thread 🧵)

Lobanov was known particularly for his detailed self-portraits, noted for their frequent inclusion of imaginary guns, soviet imagery, and for their self-aggrandizing nature.

Born in Mologa in 1924, Lobanov contracted meningitis at five years old and was left deaf and mute. He was a rebellious and aggressive child, his family had him confined to a mental asylum at the age of 23. During years of hospitalization, his violence and aggression remained.

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