Ngadi Smart

The owners of the Guardian website after some years of study have put together a plan for restorative justice for a few communities in Jamaica and the Sea Islands (Gullah) in the US for which their family was involved in their enslavement theguardian.com/news/2026/apr/…

[We asked what repairing the harm of enslavement would look like. This is what we found | Reparations & reparative justice | The Guardian “Our Legacies of Enslavement team has found humanity & dignity, not blame or guilt, are at the heart of conversation“ theguardian.com/news/ng-intera…

If you haven't read his non-fiction book, Musical Truth (illustrated by Ngadi Smart), I'd strongly recommend tracking down a copy. It's a fascinating look at Black music and culture in Britain from the 1950s onwards, with each chapter built around a different song.

I interviewed the photographer Ngadi Smart on her beautiful work and photography celebrating the rich Ivorian Queer communities for Contemporary And/: contemporaryand.com/en/c-and-magaz…

Ngadi Smart

“I aim to show various representations of Black people, and what it means to be Black, and seek the deconstruction of mainstream society's preconceived views of what the definitions of “normal,” “beautiful,” and “right” are.” says Smart. The Past as Future. Ngadi Smart  talks to Zahra Amiruddin.  To read more visit arttaca.io/featured #arttaca #interview #NgadiSmart

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is set to hear Vanuatu’s case on climate crisis obligations as the Pacific island nation's reefs are devastated by global warming, cyclones and rising seas. — in pictures aje.io/la4hla

In Sakir Khader’s photographs, Palestinians’ resistance to their displacement is visible in simple acts: an elderly woman tending to her land, remaining to care for her olive trees despite the ruins that now surround her. nyer.cm/bCwoiz5

The Met have published a series of brilliant videos on various african cultural landmarks. Please try and watch them to bring more mainstream attention to african cultures and to encourage conservation thus avoiding the neglect of these various sites. Link below

R.I.P. Sebastião Ribeiro Salgado Júnior 📷 (1944 – 2025)

Earlier this year in Koidu, Kono district.

I was out on Mother’s Day to photograph beautiful mothers in Peckham .

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Notting Hill Carnival began in 1966 as a way for the local Caribbean community to celebrate their culture and combat racial tensions. From these humble beginnings grew to be Europe’s largest Carnival, welcoming over a million people each year 💫

✶ i’ve been thinking a lot about black dandyism + the safe haven paris became for black creatives during + post harlem renaissance. stumbled across these photos of james baldwin + his obsession with neckerchiefs

1982 news segment following street artist Keith Haring as he draws across the New York City subway system before he's arrested by police.

Malick Sidibé, Un gentleman avec pattes d'éléphant, 1974

Photos I took in Ghana 🇬🇭

@briticoyemo Great work @briticoyemo

You can watch the full interview here: youtube.com/watch?v=nK7-DW…

Olive trees, Palestine.

Spanish Harlem Portraits. New York, 1980s Joseph Rodriguez