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3 colors from Mexico 🇲🇽Color here carries knowledge, tradition, and identity shaped over generations.
🔵 Maya Blue was created over a
thousand years ago using indigo and clay and is known for its durability, still visible on murals in places like Bonampak, Chiapas.
🩷 Mexican Pink,
popularized in the 20th century, is a vibrant tone seen in textiles, clothing, crafts, and architecture, representing energy and cultural
🔴Cochineal Red comes from the cochineal insect that
lives on nopal cactus and has been used since pre-Columbian times to produce deep reds in textiles and art, continuing today as the natural pigment carmine.

A new exhibition in Chicago, “Paris in Black: Internationalism and the Black Renaissance,” celebrates the painters, writers, and performers who sought freedom in the city of light and left an indelible mark on its history.

“When I first learned of the exhibition…my initial reaction was, ‘What a dream come true!,’” says writer Daria Simone Harper. “As much as I’d like to reflect on my favorite Black artists and writers expatriating to Paris and living their best lives, though, their efforts to escape racism in America were not without troubling experiences, too. I wondered how the show would deal with this tension.”
Image: William McBride, “Robert S. Abbott Founds the Chicago Defender” (1963)