At the core of our Black History Playing Cards is the pushing back of negative stereotypes of the Black community. The world inundates us with images of drug dealers, violence, lack of education, and motivation as a people.

But we know we are far more than that, and we work to remind ourselves every chance we get. Every single chance we get, we push back on these negative narratives of our community. This includes during the all-important Spades matches!

We are glad you asked because as you can see, these are not your typical playing cards with boring images of people that look nothing like you, nor represent anything about your history and culture.

Yes, there are 52 playing cards, 2 jokers, the four basic suits, and they are standard poker-sized playing cards, but that is where the similarities end. Let’s go deeper.