my non-croppin ass

freestyle rootsy non-profiteer

[zeddzer00]

How to celebrate Pride from withIN the closet

[nightmareevara-deactivated20260]

Being someone's safe place is the greatest honor.

[rainymorninlady-deactivated2024]

" i refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism & war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality. i believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. "

martin luther king jr.

[mysharona1987]

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

[liberalsarecool]

Republicans will negate/burn/disrespect anything that gets in the way of their [stolen] power.

[progressivepower]

Well because no matter how many clever tweets are made every second of everyday, only real world activism will change this country. We assume Voting is a given

[fishyandclintbarton]

[bellygangstaboo]

Reblog if you agree.

[birbman-sasori]

I agree

[troubled-pasta]

Trifecta

[micdotcom]

Watch: Poet Porsha Olayiwola heartbreakingly reminds us all that black women’s lives matter too. 

[okayysophia]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[someoneidontknow]

[lakecountylibrary]

Assistant Librarian Kelley Recommends:

Books by Black Authors to Read Because Black Lives Matter

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and Asha Bandele

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup

Stamped from the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Ghost Boys by Jewell Parker Rhodes

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

March by John Lewis

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

Stamped: Racism, Anti-Racism and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi

For LCPL cardholders: All of these are available in our collection either in Overdrive/Libby or Hoopla for immediate download, or in physical format for curbside pickup (sometimes both!)

See more of Kelley’s Recs

[killdrae]

[prettyyoungtragedy]

BLACK LIVES MATTER!!!

I have 15 Thousand followers on Tumblr, I am kinda expecting ya’ll re reblog this one. 

So i’m going to say it again, and again and AGAIN! DON’T BE ON THE SIDE OF SILENCE AND COMPLACENCY!!! Shit needs to fucking change!!!!!!!!

BLACK LIVES MATTER ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽

BLACK LIVES MATTER ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽

BLACK LIVES MATTER ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽

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BLACK LIVES MATTER ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽

BLACK LIVES MATTER ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽

BLACK LIVES MATTER ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽

BLACK LIVES MATTER ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽

BLACK LIVES MATTER ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽

BLACK LIVES MATTER ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽

BLACK LIVES MATTER ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽

BLACK LIVES MATTER ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽

BLACK LIVES MATTER ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽

BLACK LIVES MATTER ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽

BLACK LIVES MATTER ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽

BLACK LIVES MATTER ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽

(If you’re not on the same page as me, you can politely take a walk to the unfollow button and leave)

[baryest]

My grandson in his new letter jacket. (at Carbondale, Illinois) https://www.instagram.com/p/B81u_ABgtZR/?igshid=1qaxp2cherk4k

[baryest]

Credit to from @pglynn61 (@get_regrann) - Guns kill people and Politicians in bed with the NRA kill people. #FuckTheNRA #FuckTheGOP #CommonSenseGunLegislationNOW #GunSense #VoteBlueNoMatterWhoIn2020 - Up and Down the Ballot 🗳🗳🗳🗳🗳 - #regrann https://www.instagram.com/p/B16ejZbA5jl/?igshid=zumhs3upjayi

[baryest]

Reposted from @kandinskywassily (@get_regrann) - LANDSCAPE, 1913 ⠀ Saint Petersburg, Hermitage Museum #kandinsky - #regrann https://www.instagram.com/p/B1H87bkAKbu/?igshid=1szysziy208rs

[baryest]

Reposted from @blm757 (@get_regrann) - #ThisisAmerica - #regrann https://www.instagram.com/p/B0z1MdZAevp/?igshid=1itcycl2e2mj