Afro wear x American Needle featurred on Hypebeast.com

Afro wear x American Needle featurred on Hypebeast.com
Afro Wear designed some Malcom X and Red fox fitted hats with American needle. Since 1918, Chicago based American Needle has been the original purveyor of replica baseball caps. Now branching outwards into different areas, they've recently teamed up with the estates of African American icons, activist Malcolm X and popular comedian Redd Foxx. Three styles are seen here incorporating vivid imagery from both Malcolm X and Redd Foxx. Check your local American Needle retailers for more details. Check the picks out here and in our photo album if you hadn't alread

dedicated to the memory of George Hughes

Directed and shot by Pugs.

Song for a man about to be lynched, the things that go through your mind if you were that man...this song is dedicated to the memory of George Hughes. MAY 9TH 1930, SHERMAN. BLACK FARMHAND GEORGE HUGHES IS ON TRIAL FOR THE RAPE OF A WHITE WOMAN. TENSION EXPLODES AS AN ANGRY MOB STORMS THE COURTHOUSE AT NOON.
INSIDE, TEXAS RANGERS MOVE HUGHES TO A FIREPROOF VAULT. AT 2:30 RIOTERS TORCH THE
COURTHOUSE. BY 6:30 NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS SENT BY GOVERNOR DAN MOODY ARE BEATEN BACK. BY MIDNIGHT, MORE THAN 5000 RIOTERS WATCH AS HUGHES IS TAKEN FROM THE VAULT, HUNG FROM A TREE AND BURNED.
ONLY TWO RIOTERS WERE CONVICTED -- NEITHER ONE FOR MURDER.