The Black Power Tarot

Musician King Khan conceived it, Michael Eaton painted it, and Alejandro Jodorowsky, cinema's great Marseille evangelist, advised it: the Black Power Tarot, through Trapart Editions, honors Black icons in strict Marseille structure, Tina Turner as Strength, Tupac as the Hanged Man, the pantheon of Black music and culture installed in the tradition's oldest pattern. The Marseille choice is the artistic argument: not a novelty skin but a claim that these figures belong in tarot's deepest, most canonical form, portraiture where the tradition keeps its emblems. Jodorowsky's involvement connects it to the century's most serious Marseille lineage, and Eaton's portraits carry the iconographic weight the premise demands; the assignments read as considered verdicts on each icon's mythic role. It suits readers centering Black cultural memory in their practice, Marseille readers open to portraiture, music people, and collectors of decks where concept and craft actually meet. Alongside Dust II Onyx in this catalog, it maps how contemporary Black deck-making chose its traditions.