“The Big Dance”

“I didn’t know there were so many Spanish people around here,’ he mumbled.
Mario smiled. ‘To you, they’re Spanish. To me, they’re Puerto Rican, Dominican, Panamanian, Cuban, Ecuadorian, Mexican, Afrocano, Afro-Cubano. A lot of different things. A lot of different sounds mixed together. That’s America, mijo.”

-The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

Artist: Maggie Ellis

Negroes At A Jewish Theater

“The dances drew Negroes from far and wide, and over the next twelve months, his fortunes grew.
As they did, the response of the town’s rival theater owners evolved from grumbles to murmured complaints to roaring outrage. Negroes were crawling all over downtown, they howled, to a Jewish theater! Everybody knows the Jews bake their matzahs with Christian blood!”

-The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store

Via: Alessandro Malossi