ADULTHOOD IS A S#!%SHOW
“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.”
Artist: Maggie Ellis
Artist: Oluwatobiloba Fasalejo
“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!”
Via: Alessandro Malossi