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dynamicafrica: Photos of South African women protesting in the...

Sat, 25 May 2013 17:22:14 -0400

Photos of South African women protesting in the streets against the Apartheid government.

1980s.

Read more about the critical roles women played during the anti-Apartheid struggle.

Africa Day 2013 marks the 50th anniversary of Africa Day and the...

Sat, 25 May 2013 17:21:24 -0400

Africa Day 2013 marks the 50th anniversary of Africa Day and the African Union

Amazing 9 year old Asean Johnson brings the crowd to their feet...

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:36:00 -0400

Amazing 9 year old Asean Johnson brings the crowd to their feet at Chicago school closings rally

brazilwonders: Olinda - Pernambuco (by eduhhz)

Tue, 21 May 2013 22:33:43 -0400

brazilwonders:

Olinda - Pernambuco (by eduhhz)

nbcnews: 9-year-old from Plaza Towers school among first...

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:57:38 -0400

nbcnews:

9-year-old from Plaza Towers school among first tornado victims identified

(Photo courtesy Angela Hornsby)

A 9-year-old girl who was “always smiling” is among the first of the Oklahoma tornado victims to be identified.

Read the complete story.

dastagiristan: To celebrate Malcolm’s birthday, I present two...

Sun, 19 May 2013 22:49:54 -0400

dastagiristan:

To celebrate Malcolm’s birthday, I present two of my favorite quotes from him:

“Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past. Therefore we need enlightenment. We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity. Once we have more knowledge (light) about each other, we will stop condemning each other and a United front will be brought about.”

and

“Don’t be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn’t do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn’t know what you know today.”

kameelahwrites: Folks asked about these prints a few weeks ago...

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:21:28 -0400

kameelahwrites:

Folks asked about these prints a few weeks ago and I’m finally selling them!

$40 each! Email me — studio@kameelahr.com

PUNCTUATED BLACKNESS | Woodblock Print | 13” x 8.5” | Folio Antique (100% Cotton, 250 gsm) | Edition of 8

© Kameelah Janan Rasheed, 2013 // www.kameelahr.com

xo.

kameelah

wahaladey: photobooth.

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:20:24 -0400

wahaladey:

photobooth.

immabee100: My HAITIAN pride I will not hide My HAITIAN race...

Sat, 18 May 2013 19:57:40 -0400

immabee100:

My HAITIAN pride
I will not hide
My HAITIAN race
I will not disgrace
My HAITIAN blood
flows hot & true
My HAITIAN peeps
I will stand by you
Our HAITIAN flag
Always stands high.
Happy Haitian Flag Day. #1804 #Haiti #Haitian #HaitianPride

labelleviefilm: Today will mark 2 years since the production of...

Thu, 16 May 2013 20:10:08 -0400

labelleviefilm:

Today will mark 2 years since the production of the feature documentary film called “La Belle Vie: The Good Life” which is a film that follows the journey of Haitian-American filmmaker, Rachelle Salnave’s quest to rediscovering her roots. Within her search, she discovers a new Haiti. With over 60 hours of footage of interviews and broll, the team has decided to randomly post the most compelling people they have met along the journey to let you hear the voices and see the images of the Haitian experience!

La Belle Vie: The Good Life will be screening in the Fall of 2013.

For more information and updates on La Belle Vie: The Good Life please like us on facebook - facebook.com/pages/La-Belle-Vie-The-Good-Life/164249816926166?fref=ts

Follow us on Twitter: Labelleviefilm

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Thu, 16 May 2013 18:34:13 -0400

livelaughlovelocs: blackfashion: From the book DREADS by...

Thu, 16 May 2013 18:33:26 -0400

livelaughlovelocs:

blackfashion:

From the book DREADS by Francesco Mastalia and Alfonse Pagano.

Great set of pics!

Chisholm Project

Wed, 15 May 2013 22:07:09 -0400

Chisholm Project:

The Shirley Chisholm Project of Brooklyn Women’s Activism is a repository of women’s grassroots social activism in Brooklyn since 1945 and ongoing in the present. The archive consists of documents and other materials, including oral histories, from people who knew or worked with Chisholm, as well as from the extraordinary diversity of women’s activism in Brooklyn. The Shirley Chisholm Project’s goal is to sustain Chisholm’s legacy as a path breaking community and political activist.

Actress Kerry Washington explains why being colorblind...

Wed, 15 May 2013 13:58:04 -0400

Actress Kerry Washington explains why being colorblind doesn’t solve the race problem

The documentary Nosotros, Afroperuanos (We, Afro-Peruvians) will...

Wed, 15 May 2013 13:28:00 -0400

The documentary Nosotros, Afroperuanos (We, Afro-Peruvians) will be screened at Sankofa Bookstore, on 25th of May, at 3 pm

raptivism: “Oscar Grant Movie Trailer just came out. Starts at...

Mon, 13 May 2013 20:02:05 -0400

raptivism:

“Oscar Grant Movie Trailer just came out. Starts at the Cannes Film Festival in France this weekend. Praying for success there. Then moves to LA Film Festival as the Gala film and premieres on June 17th. It will be in Oakland shortly after that to premiere, then to New York for a premiere, and finally in theaters July 26, 2013” (via The Oscar Grant Foundation)

thepeoplesrecord: http://www.mamasday.org/ Strong Families is...

Sun, 12 May 2013 15:13:52 -0400

thepeoplesrecord:

http://www.mamasday.org/

Strong Families is a home for the 4 out of 5 people living in the US who do not live behind the picket fence—whose lives fall outside outdated notions of family, with a mom at home and a dad at work. While that life has never been the reality for most of our families, too many of the policies that affect us are based on this fantasy. From a lack of affordable childcare and afterschool programs, to immigration policy and marriage equality, the way we make policy and allocate resources needs to catch up to the way we live.

We see the trend of families defining themselves beyond the picket fence—across generation, race, gender, immigration status, and sexuality—as a powerful and promising development for the US, and we want to help policy makers catch up.

Our vision is that every family have the rights, recognition and resources it needs to thrive. We are engaging hundreds of organizations and thousands of individuals in our work to get there.

"Did you have a genius of a great-great-grandmother who died under some ignorant and depraved white..."

Sun, 12 May 2013 12:58:40 -0400

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Did you have a genius of a great-great-grandmother who died under some ignorant and depraved white overseer’s lash? Or was she required to bake biscuits for a lazy backwater tramp, when she cried out in her soul to paint watercolors of sunsets, or the rain falling on the green and peaceful pasturelands? Or was her body broken and forced to bear children (who were more often than not sold away from her)-eight, ten, fifteen, twenty children-when her one joy was the thought of modeling heroic figures of Rebellion, in stone or clay?

How was the creativity of the Black woman kept alive, year after year and century after century, when for most of the years Black people have been in America, it was a punishable crime for a Black person to read or write? And the freedom to paint, to sculpt, to expand the mind with action did not exist. Consider, if you can bear to imagine it, what might have been the result if singing, too, had been forbidden by law. Listen to the voices of Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Roberta Flack, and Aretha Franklin, among others, and imagine those voices muzzled for life. Then you may begin to comprehend the lives of our “crazy,” “Sainted” mothers and grandmothers. The agony of the lives of women who might have been Poets, Novelists, Essayists, and Short Story Writers, who died with their real gifts stifled within them.

”

- In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: The Creativity of Black Women in the South (1974)

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Sun, 12 May 2013 12:20:22 -0400

"To be a mother is the most extraordinary achievement. To be a mother is the extraordinary lesson and..."

Sun, 12 May 2013 12:20:03 -0400

“To be a mother is the most extraordinary achievement. To be a mother is the extraordinary lesson and learning. And I am not just speaking here to those of you who are physical mothers, for many of you are mothers to those in your world without having the physical child, but the mothering energy is that which promotes growth and love, is that which supports and nurtures.”

- Lee Harris (via ynannarising)