Black southern gothic aesthetic

For many black Americans, the South holds a bittersweet place in our heart; as much home as sorrow, as much ghostly as ancestral. Detangling our history is harder than detangling our hair — the webs of our lineage weave back and forth through time and space. Despite all the South has put my people through, it calls to me.

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"St. Catherine" by Michael P. Smith. Between 1969 and 1974

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Houston-native Beyoncé Knowles almost broke the Internet this weekend with the unexpected release of her new song “Formation” and its bold music video on Saturday. Then came her performance of the song at Sunday’s Super Bowl, where she paid homage to both Malcolm X and Michael Jackson; her dancers dressed to pay homage to the Black Panthers who formed 50 years ago in October. It didn’t stop there. Beyoncé announced a world tour starting in April with stops in both Dallas and Houston –…

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