Black Thoughts Today

"We want our country back!!! I would ask from whom? The media images and portrayals of African Americans throughout this country's history is largely negative. Take a look at the video clip provided below. Our goal at BlackThoughts.Today is to provide an...

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The slave ships didn’t only stop in America. My brothers and sisters are everywhere!

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Michelle Obama’s Speech At 2016 Democratic National Convention:  The White House was built by slaves

Of course, the White House was built by slaves. America was built on the backs of slaves and the genocide of Native Americans and slaves alike. Why would you want to erase that part of history and/or have selective memory about it? People would know this if the crazy ultra conservatives weren’t always rewriting history and putting it in the history books that children are taught from. My ancestors deserve to have their memory kept alive too. #Love it!

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Jesse Williams with President Obama and the First Lady at the 2016 WHCD.

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he know they fascists?

[blackthoughtstoday-blog]

Now the other thing we'll have to do is this: Always anchor our external direct action with the power of economic withdrawal. Now, we are poor people. Individually, we are poor when you compare us with white society in America. We are poor. Never stop and forget that collectively -- that means all of us together -- collectively we are richer than all the nations in the world, with the exception of nine. Did you ever think about that? After you leave the United States, Soviet Russia, Great Britain, West Germany, France, and I could name the others, the American Negro collectively is richer than most nations of the world. We have an annual income of more than thirty billion dollars a year, which is more than all of the exports of the United States, and more than the national budget of Canada. Did you know that? That's power right there, if we know how to pool it. We don't have to argue with anybody. We don't have to curse and go around acting bad with our words. We don't need any bricks and bottles. We don't need any Molotov cocktails. We just need to go around to these stores, and to these massive industries in our country, and say, "God sent us by here, to say to you that you're not treating his children right. And we've come by here to ask you to make the first item on your agenda fair treatment, where God's children are concerned. Now, if you are not prepared to do that, we do have an agenda that we must follow. And our agenda calls for withdrawing economic support from you."

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, 1968  I Have Been to the Mountaintop

[afroeditions]

17 Poems To Read When The World Is Too Much

“Where does it hurt? Everywhere. Everywhere. Everywhere.”

[ourafrica]

From @the-fisher-queen :

“I am grateful that I followed Our Africa. I think that I have learned a lot from your writing and beautiful pictures. I wondered if you could help me signal boost Jacq, this lady I met at the market yesterday. She makes and sells these dolls which look like young black girls, complete with awesome afro hairstyles. I know that having such toys is important for young girls. Can you help me get the word out?”

Jacq’s Dolls Website: www.jacqsdolls.com

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Email : [email protected]

Facebook : www.facebook.com/jbryantcampbell

BOOST!!!

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Fela Kuti’s Queens

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Muslim Woman Accuses Chicago Police Of Racial Profiling, Tackling Her

Five officers rushed the woman, who was wearing a cap and hijab, last 4th of July Weekend.

Itemad “Angel” Almatar was charged with reckless conduct and resisting arrest over the incident. Five police officers grab Almatar, who was wearing a baseball cap and hijab, on the stairs of the State/Lake L stop in the Loop.

Police grabbed her backpack which was filled with food to end her ramadan feast never telling her why.

She thought they might be thieves, until they arrested her.

She claims she suffered further mistreatment after police took her in.

No formal charges have been filed, Almatar plans to pursue a federal civil rights lawsuit soon.

So she was arrested cause she’s a Muslim who had food in her bag so she could break her fast later? If this was done to a white women for being white in a muslim country, the world would riot and tweet and write status about it. But if ur a muslim its ok. And the land of the free we live in. #Hate it!

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[thingstolovefor]

White privilege defined in a single photograph. #Hate it!

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Do you see it...

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Little to No Association Between Butter Consumption and Chronic Disease or Total Mortality 

Butter consumption was only weakly associated with total mortality, not associated with cardiovascular disease, and slightly inversely associated (protective) with diabetes, according to a new epidemiological study which analyzed the association of butter consumption with chronic disease and all-cause mortality. This systematic review and meta-analysis, published in PLOS ONE, was led by Tufts scientists including Laura Pimpin, Ph.D., former postdoctoral fellow at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts in Boston, and senior author Dariush Mozaffarian, M.D., Dr.P.H., dean of the School.

“Overall, our results suggest that butter should neither be demonized nor considered "back” as a route to good health,“ said Mozaffarian. "More research is needed to better understand the observed potential lower risk of diabetes, which has also been suggested in some other studies of dairy fat. This could be real, or due to other factors linked to eating butter – our study does not prove cause-and-effect.”

Pimpin L, Wu JHY, Haskelberg H, Del Gobbo L, Mozaffarian D. Is Butter Back? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Butter Consumption and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease, Diabetes, and Total Mortality. PLOS ONE, June 2016 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0158118

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Almost a year ago #SandraBland was tortured and murdered in police custody and her death stirred up the society. Time flies so fast, and seems that as recently as yesterday. People went on strike, police beat and poured the protesters with tear gas, the speakers yelled out from their rostrums. And that’s all. What has changed? #Hate it!

Hashtag #ifidieinpolicecustody appeared to be one of the results of this. It exposes the truth and fear surrounding the interactions of black people and the police in America. Anyone of us could be on her place… and ifyoudieinpolicecustody what would be your message? 

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Ifeyinwa Arinze: So Many Women

“so many women,so many women whose blood i am carrying so many glorious lives living inside me.”   Ijeoma Umebinyuo

The majority of my work does not start with a defined vision. Often, it’s a feeling, deep in my gut, to create. The bulk of my portfolio is honestly a collection of spontaneous decisions, in-the-moment decisions. After the work is done, I look back and then a theme emerges. - keep reading

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Amén

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I need this as a poster for my job.

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These days you can find William Kitt in a small, bright solarium on the corner of 150th Street and Edgecombe Avenue in Manhattan, where he lives. Most hours on any day he sits here, sketching over a desk cluttered with colored pencils and pastels. What you could not know from looking at Kitt, a slender, laughing man who wears a beret and surrounds himself with drawings, is that he spent decades living on the streets.

Kitt says he spent 34 years of his life being homeless and maddened by drug-induced hallucinations. Now he lives in an apartment owned by a housing nonprofit called Broadway Housing Communities, which was founded in 1983 and owns seven buildings housing over 600 tenants.

Like most supportive housing projects, Broadway Housing Communities provides apartments and medical, psychiatric or other services to people who, like William Kitt, have physical or mental health problems or are low income. Kitt, now 65, has leased a room from this Broadway Housing property on Edgecombe Avenue for the past 13 years.

He’s alive today in part because of this Harlem building. “He was so not well when he first arrived that had he not been in Broadway Housing, he would not have had long to live,” says Russell Baptist, a social work manager who has worked with Kitt. “Maybe just of his own neglect.”

Invisibilia: For An Artist, A Room Of His Own Is A Lifesaver

Photos: Bryan Thomas for NPR

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The Black Iris Project celebrates dancers and choreographers of color, and we are so excited to see them perform here live on July 14! And just announced: they will be in conversation with the one and only Susan Fales-Hill, arts education advocate!

Watch this clip to learn more about this extraordinary dance troupe, and RSVP to see them here!