Afromative Action

Black will always be beautiful.

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For more information: http://cccadi.org/03/3571/

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..ALLYSHIP & STORYTELLING.

“There is so much power in storytelling. And there is enormous power in inclusive storytelling, in inclusive representations.”

..To be represented is to be humanized.”

-Kerry Washington

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11th Anniversary of Kimani Maruge's First Day of School

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via http://browngirlsdoballet.com/

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done by Tony Green.

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baduuuuu.

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Kosisochukwu Nnebe' work at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts' Black History Month program.

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Protest TOMORROW against Nigeria’s Anti-Gay Law which imposes 14 year jail sentences on LGBT Nigerians.

[Friday, March 7: 11am-1pm; NYC/DC]

New York City Rally:

Nigerian consulate- 828 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10017

Facebook Event

Washington DC Rally:

Nigerian embassy- 3519 International Ct NW, Washington, DC 20008

Facebook Event

Twitter: #IStandwith9jaLGBT

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Events in other cities will be outside local Nigerian embassy/consulate. If you cannot attend, please lend your support via twitter and SIGNAL BOOST this post as the event is TOMORROW. I will also personally be at the NYC rally as well, so say hey, and I hope to see you all there!!!

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Baianas (via pinterest)

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You can claim black pride all you want, until you do something that is conducive to the plight of the black community, you are merely making a lot of noise. Comparative to a child throwing a tantrum, they’ll scream and holler for awhile but eventually become quiet without any recourse being made.

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#itooamharvard.

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YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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happy birthday harry belafonte

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Black Cubans were closer to black Americans and white Cubans were closer to white Americans. We became culturally African American.

Evelio Grillo

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Whitewashing reproductive rights: How black activists get erased

Abortion for black women has always been a revolutionary rejection of patriarchy, white supremacy and forced systems of oppression. The great scholars Patricia Hill Collins and Angela Davis have explained that throughout slavery and into the 20th century, self-abortion through herbal remedies, hangers, hatpins and pencils were a way out of slavery and poverty. Our ancestors fought hard to refuse to carry the children of their master rapists and rear another generation of slaves, even when it meant that “barren” women were deemed worthless chattel and sold between plantations. From generation to generation, stories and recipes were passed down to ensure that women weren’t forced to carry pregnancies they never desired or weren’t able to carry healthily. For as many powerful women that raised children in the worst conditions imaginable, so there were those who refused.

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"If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it."

-Zora Neale Hurston