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sonofbaldwin: Reading came first.

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:44:44 -0700

Reading came first.

newmodelminority: notesonascandal: youngblackandvegan: thefem...

Wed, 15 May 2013 15:05:00 -0700

notesonascandal:

youngblackandvegan:

thefemaletyrant:

Viola Davis and Danai Gurira

So much perfection in one image!

*wipes tear*

black woman excellence

YES GAWD!

My friend* Viola Davis, ladies and gents, y mi pelo is almost there.

thats-the-way-it-was: April 4, 1968: Civil rights leader, Rev....

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 16:25:28 -0700

thats-the-way-it-was:

April 4, 1968: Civil rights leader, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is shot to death at a hotel in Memphis, Tennessee. A single shot fired by James Earl Ray from over 200 feet away at a nearby motel struck King in the neck. He died an hour later at St. Joseph’s Hospital.

Photo: Ralph Abernathy, with Mrs. Martin Luther King and her children lead a massive march through through the streets of Memphis on April 8, 1968 (Art Shay/Time & Life Pictures/Getty)

crazy

Sun, 09 Sep 2012 18:15:13 -0700

crazy

Video

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:38:21 -0700

Take This Hammer

Tue, 07 Aug 2012 12:36:25 -0700

Take This Hammer

tvintheradio: Please Reblog And Help Find Her!

Wed, 18 Jul 2012 21:08:09 -0700

tvintheradio:

Please Reblog And Help Find Her!

Santigold- Master of My Make-Believe

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:26:25 -0700

Santigold- Master of My Make-Believe

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Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:16:34 -0700

whatever you do…don funk wit my groove! Cop This!

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 12:34:00 -0700

whatever you do…don funk wit my groove!

Cop This!

rubyshimmer: Please do not forget Trayvon Martin. His killer,...

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 20:07:16 -0700

rubyshimmer:

Please do not forget Trayvon Martin. His killer, George Zimmerman, still has not been arrested.

What you can do: Call, fax, or email the District Attorney’s office, Sanford Police, and political representatives to ask them why Trayvon Martin’s killer has not been arrested.

1. State Attorney’s Office - Sanford

Attn: Florida District Attorney Norman Wolfinger

State Attorney’s Office
Criminal Justice Center
101 Bush Boulevard
PO Box 8006
Sanford, Florida 32772-8006
Telephone: (407) 665-6000

2. Sanford Police Department

Sanford Police Department, Attn: Police Chief Bill Lee, 815 West 13th Street, Sanford, FL 32771

Telephone: (407) 688-5070

3. Florida Governor

Office of Governor Rick Scott, State of Florida, The Capitol, 400 S. Monroe St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0001

Governor’s office Telephone: (850) 488-7146

4. Florida legislators

http://www.flsenate.gov/senators/find

(a) The Florida state senator for Sanford, Florida is David Simmons.

David Simmons, 251 Maitland Avenue, Suite 304,Altamonte Springs, FL 32701
Telephone: (407) 262-7578

(b) The Florida state representative for Sanford, Florida is Jason Brodheur.

Jason Brodheur, District Office, 114 West First Street, Suite 208, Sanford, FL 32771-1273

Telephone: (407) 302-4800

(c) The US representative for Sanford, Florida is Corrine Brown.

Representative Corrine Brown, 2336 Rayburn HOB, Washington, D.C. 20515

Telephone: (202) 225-0123, Fax: (202) 225-2256

(d) The US senators for Florida are Marc Rubio and Bill Nelson.

Senator Marc Rubio, 317 Hart Senate Office Building, Washington DC, 20510

Telephone: (202) 224-3041

Senator Bill Nelson, 716 Senate Hart Office Building, Washington, DC 20510

Telephone: (202) 224-5274

Brother Outsider- The Life of Bayard Rustin

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 19:32:46 -0700

Brother Outsider- The Life of Bayard Rustin

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Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:41:21 -0700

Black Feminism LIVES!: Survival is Not: Group Poem by the Remastered Tools 101 Crew!

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:31:57 -0800

Black Feminism LIVES!: Survival is Not: Group Poem by the Remastered Tools 101 Crew!:

blackfeminismlives:

Last night was the first ever Remastered Tools 101 Webinar session for visionary under-represented graduate students and emerging community accountable scholars! It was an amazing cyber love-fest in the name of the Lorde across at least 6 time zones! How awesome to engage the context and…

Blackamazon is too much: Dear White People,

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:29:24 -0800

Blackamazon is too much: Dear White People, :

zorascreation:

In case you haven’t noticed, POC haven’t been exactly having a good time for centuries now. Sure, we’ve made great music, art, literature. Sure, everything we do is trendy. Sure, the cultures we come from are “inspiring” and “close to the earth”, and make you want to…

so-treu: fitnesstreats: Protein NutellaA substitute for...

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:49:59 -0800

so-treu:

fitnesstreats:

Protein Nutella
A substitute for Nutella (a delicious hazelnut spread very popular here in Europe but full of palm oil and sugar)

Ingredients:
- 1/4 cup of vanilla whey protein
- 1/4 cup of casein protein
- 2 tablespoons of cocoa
- 1/2 cup of milk
- a few drops of hazelnut flavoring

Mix everything together (or blend with a hand mixer if you’d like a smoother consistency) and enjoy.

see, THIS looks good. regular nutella just doesn’t do anything for me.

"Indigo Was the Folks": Afterschool Brilliance by Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:38:30 -0800

https://brokenbeautiful.wordpress.com/

“Indigo Was the Folks”: Afterschool Brilliance
by Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs

There wasn’t enough for Indigo in the world she’d been born to, so she made up what she needed. What she thought the black people needed. Access to the moon. The power to heal. Daily visits with the spirits.

Emergency care for wounds that cannot be seen: Rock in the manner of a quiet sea. Hum softly from your heart. Repeat the victim’s name with love. Offer a brew of red sunflower to cleanse the victims blood and spirit. Fasting & silence for a time refurbish the victim’s awareness of her capacity to nourish & heal herself.
-From Ntozake Shange’s Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo

We are in my car with the top down dodging the falling leaves when Assata drops knowledge on the subject of grades, a new clarity gained during this first term of 6th grade: “Grades are bullying the alphabet.” The girls find out that their hands can bend in ways they never knew. They read outloud parts of the books they are reading. They punch each other very lightly at the sight of a Volkswagen Bug. And this is just the car ride.

The Indigo Afterschool Program was an idea that 11 year old Alex Lockhart shared with her mother, using the words: “I want to go to an afterschool program at Alexis’s house.” Inspired by Ntozake Shange’s character “Indigo” from her first novel Sassafrass, Cypress and Indigo, the Indigo Afterschool TeaParty is a place to share dreams, make art, blow bubbles and investigate Indigo’s practices of healing, self-love, dream interpretation, doll-making, compassion and full self-expression! Girls from three Durham middle schools participate! We check in over tea and snacks letting a deep breath out at the end of our check-ins by blowing a real or imaginary bubble. We make dolls that listen, healing remedies for emotional emergencies, books for our dreams, collages for our visions, love notes for each other in the name of Indigo who used all these things to create the world she needed when she was right in the arena of the menstrual transformation. It is an honor to participate in the building of community and sisterhood among these brilliant young women, and as the Crunk Feminist Collective reminded us with their development of a women’s studies 101 workshop for high school students. The intentional support and nourishment of the love, transformation and brilliance that is already living and growing and possible in young people can never start too early.

Indigo Afterschool uses the model of Indigo … just one of many audacious, inventive, complex, community accountable and wise young Black characters created by Black feminist writers to give young folks a chance to love each other and explore their own magical skills, a space to critique the norms they are noticing at school, and a validation of the practices of breathing, creating and listening. As people around the country reclaim space in their communities to activate their visions I am proud that the space that these 11 year olds (who have just proposed an expansion of the program to bi-weekly sessions) have decided to takeover my living room with their dreams. The Indigo Afterschool crew also wrote their own remedies yesterday (they also wrote a healing recipe for popcorn, getting past writers block and “boredness”). Here is some of their advice … that I recommend keeping on hand or enacting right now for your own healing:

Emergency Care for “the funk” by Bailey
(i.e. like on Glee, when they were in a funk because they were afraid their singing group wasn’t good enough) Surround oneself with loved ones, then go on top of a tall object and scream to hearts content all of ones deepest feelings. If this does not work, go in private room and listen to songs that mention only of happy things, then write down all of ones problems and think of a way to turn them around.

Emergency for Sadness by Assata
1. go to the bathroom and turn on hot water. let it steam.
2. get your favorite incense and burn it
3. get a robe and put it on
4. put the incense in the bathroom
5. put a stool in the bathroom
6. write all the things you are sad about on a piece of paper
7. write on the steamed mirror all the things that are peaceful
8. sit in the bathroom and be peaceful with the steaming and the incense

Forged by Fire (for hard experiences that change you forever) by Alex
Bathe in a tub of warm water without bubbles. Slowly lie down and let all the bad energy out. When you get out, don’t dry off, instead go to a silent room and let the peaceful air dry you off. Next rub your skin with soothing lavender oil. Now go outside and let the sun wrap its loving rays around you.

shelbyknox: On this date - November 5th - in 1968, Shirley...

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 09:37:02 -0800

shelbyknox:

On this date - November 5th - in 1968, Shirley Chisholm became the first Black woman ever to be elected to the United States Congress. Her words still ring true today: “At present, our country needs women’s idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.” Thank you, Ms. Chisholm, for leading the way!

vintageblackglamour: James Baldwin and Nina Simone circa 1960s....

Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:16:36 -0700

vintageblackglamour:

James Baldwin and Nina Simone circa 1960s. Via the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Rise in Power… Gerard Smith

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 23:58:11 -0700

Rise in Power… Gerard Smith