Can we take a minute to interrupt your dashboard with some really great stuff? The number of Tumblrs that are celebrating black excellence through portraiture is astounding. Creating it, collecting it, painting it, sketching it, Illustrator-ing it, daguerrotyping it, everythinging-it.
A small sample of the gorgeousness above, much more over on our special explore page.
Gold and black portrait by @spacemetal, Georgia Douglas Johnson by @illustratedwomeninhistory, Young woman illustration by Judy Osman Khieri via @fyblackwomenart, Arthur Cooper via @askhistorians.