AfroCentered Media

AfroCentered Media Afrocentered Media is the name chosen by photographer/artist Tyahra Angus whose mission is to increase representation of black/brown people in our media.

Boston Based photographer/artist Tyahra Angus started AfroCentered Media in 2015 and has been collecting and publishing photographs that increase representation of black/brown people in our media, particularly black women, even more particularly black q***r "women" like herself. IG:
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05/22/2026

Behind This Photo: A collective vibration unfolding in real time.
Presented within the energy of the Inner Sanctum in Boston in 2016. The room carried a pulse of freedom of movement, of artists trying out their voices for the first time, of new creativity.
As we continue reflecting through the Afrocentered Color Series Volume 2, we return to one of the most immersive pieces in the collection. This photograph draws us inward — beyond color, beyond stillness — into sensation itself.
The purple here felt transcendent: rich like ancestral wisdom, soft like vulnerability, powerful like transformation moving through the body. It wasn’t simply seen; it surrounded the space like vibration, like meditation, like a quiet reminder that art can awaken what words alone cannot reach.

Location: Inner Sanctum (Inner City Sanctuary of the Arts), Nubian Square, Boston, MA

Please let me know if you are in these photos so I can properly credit💜

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🚨 BOSTON, DON’T MISS HISTORY — THIS IS THE FINAL BLACK LEGACY MARKETPLACE AT BLACK MARKET NUBIAN! One last takeover of c...
05/22/2026

🚨 BOSTON, DON’T MISS HISTORY — THIS IS THE FINAL BLACK LEGACY MARKETPLACE AT BLACK MARKET NUBIAN! One last takeover of culture, creativity, community, and Black brilliance… and I’m honored to be part of it.✨🖤

I am so proud that I will be vending the Afrocentered Color Series at ‘s Black Legacy Marketplace 1pm to 6pm at 2136 Washington Street, Boston, MA.

From parades and protests to cookouts, corners, carnivals, front stoops, and late-night gatherings, this work captures the richness of our living history in full color and so many of them taken at Black Market so you’ll see some familiar faces🥰 Black Market has always been a vibrant celebration of Black creativity, culture, cooperative economics, and community power. Way more than a marketplace — it’s a movement!
The Afrocentered Color Seires is a photographic exploration of Black and Black Q***r life through the lens of Color Theory and I will be signing copies and taking new portraits✨
Visit my space at the marketplace to grab:
📸 Photo prints
📚 Copies of the first book
🖤 Buttons + exclusive pieces
✨ New ordering options dropping soon

Come celebrate the stories we tell, the memories we preserve, and the future we’re building together. Pull up for the culture, stay for the community.

Color Lore: Fun Facts about colors to celebrate the launch of the Afrocentered Color Series. Today we celebrate Purple 💜...
05/21/2026

Color Lore: Fun Facts about colors to celebrate the launch of the Afrocentered Color Series. Today we celebrate Purple 💜🍇☂️🔮🪻🦄🎆👾☂️
This is the sixth of 9 posts about color that will be coming out over the course of the next few weeks until the Black Legacy Marketplace at . Thank you for your support, and comment and message any other fun facts about the color Purple here!

Color Lore: Fun Facts about colors to celebrate the launch of the Afrocentered Color Series. Today we celebrate Blue 💙🦋🥣...
05/19/2026

Color Lore: Fun Facts about colors to celebrate the launch of the Afrocentered Color Series. Today we celebrate Blue 💙🦋🥣🌐🌀🧞‍♂️🧵🛋️🫐
This is the fifth of 9 posts about color that will be coming out over the course of the next few weeks until the Black Legacy Marketplace at . Thank you for your support, and comment and message any other fun facts about the color Blue here!

05/18/2026

Behind This Photo: This wasn’t just green — it was energy that defined a Kick Back! 🌴Captured during the For The People Juneteenth Celebration and Community BBQ hosted by Black Boston June 19th, 2021, this image carries the spirit of gathering, liberation, and memory woven into every shade.

As we close our celebration of the color green, we return to one of the soul-stirring pieces featured in the Afrocentered Color Series Volume 2. This photograph invites us deeper — beyond color, beyond composition — into feeling itself.
Taken at Titus Sparrow Park, the green here felt sacred: lush like renewal, soft like healing, alive like ancestry whispering through summer leaves. It wasn’t simply seen; it moved through the body like music, like peace, like a quiet promise that joy still belongs to us.

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Your next opportunity to grab a copy from me in person is this Saturday

04/07/2026

“HOW did you write THREE books at once?!” 👀📚
Everyone expects some complicated answer…
But here’s the real:
✨ Start. At. The. Start. ✨
Not the perfect plan.
Not the polished version.
Not the ‘one day when I’m ready’ version.
Just the start.
If you’re a creative sitting on ideas, this is your sign:
Stop overthinking the masterpiece and begin the messy first page!
Because published doesn’t come from perfect…
It comes from starting. And having support like I had with to then make everything perfect. I will forever be grateful ⚡️
Thank you again to the ever fly of for moderating this conversation🌹

Still feeling the warmth from my Afrocentered Color Series Book Launch ✨What a beautiful, affirming, and joy-filled gath...
04/05/2026

Still feeling the warmth from my Afrocentered Color Series Book Launch ✨
What a beautiful, affirming, and joy-filled gathering. So many of you showed up, showed love, and truly showed out—I’m still in awe. We nearly sold out of the print copies I had on hand, and for a first event celebrating this series, that means everything to me.
This wasn’t just a launch—it felt like the beginning of something meaningful, something rooted in connection, creativity, and the power of our stories.
A heartfelt thank you to my publisher, Destiny Polk , for joining us virtually and grounding us in such an important reminder: that sharing our own stories as a Black community is not only powerful, but necessary. Your words stayed with us.
And thank you to our incredible host, Yah-Yah , who guided the conversation so thoughtfully—helping us reflect on the past, engage with the present, and imagine boldly into the future.
To everyone who attended—thank you for making the space come alive. From choosing your favorite mocktails, to creating beautiful bookmarks, to capturing your presence in the Polaroid guestbook—you each added something special to the experience.
And a very special thank you to Just Bookish for providing the perfect ambiance. The space held us so well—it truly felt like the start of something beautiful.
If you missed this one, don’t worry… this is just the beginning. Stay tuned for what’s next 💫

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⏰We’re just a few hours away from the Afrocentered Color Series Book Launch⭐️🎟️ Raffle for Limited Edition Prints and 1 ...
04/04/2026

⏰We’re just a few hours away from the Afrocentered Color Series Book Launch⭐️
🎟️ Raffle for Limited Edition Prints and 1 Free Book
📖 Live reading
✍🏾 Book signing
🎤 Q&A
📸 Polaroid guestbook portraits
🎨 DIY bookmark station
🎁 Free buttons + signed bookplates
🍸 Signature color-inspired mocktails and refreshments

Free to attend at ! Register in the link in the bio🌟

Any resources like recipes, programs, educational videos, etc?This is focused in 📍Greater Boston but any resource is hel...
03/30/2025

Any resources like recipes, programs, educational videos, etc?

This is focused in 📍Greater Boston but any resource is helpful!

03/13/2025

Welcome to this walkthrough of my very first curation of a virtual art exhibition for The Portal Between The Everyday and the Sacred brought to you by I am so proud with how this turned out and I want to thank the artists again! This exhibit is fully VIRTUAL, FREE, and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC✨✨🔥 Artists: Arifa Awadallah Black The Creator Bosede Ajibola Opetubo D.thoughts .santo_s Erica Imoisi .imoisi Isshoni lala novali Lauren G. Lia K. Tyahra angus Shantel Miller “A photograph of a black subject is usually conceived as a window onto another world. Even the most well-meaning journalistic images of black life have the intention of enabling a passage, from the First World to the Third, for example, or from one side of the railway tracks to the other. It might be impossible for a black photographer in a largely white art world ever to wholly divest herself of this way of seeing...Her work does not show us ‘how the other half lives.’ Rather, it opens up a portal between the everyday and the sacred, between our finite lives and our long cultural and racial histories, between a person and a people.”�Zadie Smith | Through the Portal Using Zadie Smith’s essay on photography, Through the Portal, as a point of departure, this three-session workshop series explores the relationship between contemporary art-making and the sacred in everyday life. Through a range of multimedia practices—including video, literature, and photography—the series examines how artists use these mediums to document the present, engaging with it as a site of both artistic and spiritual inquiry. See the exhibition herehttps://visit.virtualartgallery.com/sacredportalOR click the link in my bio and go to the Exhibition page!

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