La Sirena🧜🏾‍♀️🌊

Charging my crystals in the moonlight and taking tequila shots out tha bottle.🏳️‍🌈🔮💫✨🕉🧘🏾‍♀️ Annddd reading every book I can get my fuckin’ hands on.📚

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“She had smeared sardine oil on her twat to make her smell like an authentic girl.”

Fish Tales - Nettie Jones

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This novel, “Take My Hand,” is a fictional POV of the nurse who advocated for her young clients who were involuntarily sterilized because of government practices that targeted poor Black girls and women. Relf v. Weinberger

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“The pump was connected to nothing. And sadly, neither was the man.

For his wife did not love him. His children did not miss him.

The town did not erect a statue in his honor.

All the myths he believed in would crystallize into even greater mythology in future years and become weapons of war used by politicians and evildoers to kill defenseless schoolchildren by the dozens so that a few rich men spouting the same mythology that Doc spouted could buy islands that held more riches than the town of Pottstown had or would ever have.

Gigantic yachts that would sail the world and pollute the waters and skies, owned by men creating great companies that made weapons of great power in factories that employed the poor, weapons that were sold cheaply enough so that the poor could purchase them and kill one another.

Any man could buy one and walk into schools and bring death to dozens of children and teachers and anyone else stupid enough to believe in all that American mythology of hope, freedom, equality, and justice.

The problem was always, and would always be, the 🥷🏾 and the poor-and the foolish white people who felt sorry for them.

So it was appropriate that a 🥷🏾 and a foolish white man buried him.”

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Tina Turner, unstoppable superstar whose hits included 'What's Love Got to Do With It,' dead at 83

Tina Turner has died at age 83. She teamed with husband Ike Turner for a dynamic run of hit records and live shows and survived her horrifyi

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“Money answers all things. And money is the root of all evil. Both things are true. Laws exist, yes, but laws are for the poor. Laws are for the masses. Laws are for those who answer only to the city. Laws are for those who don’t have master keys. Know this: for every law made, there are always people who are under it and people who are above it. “

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“There are simple and good and straightforward and well-behaved people, I’m sure. “

“But this is not a book about them.”

Vagabonds! by Eloghosia Osunde

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“Certain kinds of trauma visited on peoples are so deep, so cruel, that unlike money, unlike vengeance, even unlike justice, or rights, or the goodwill of others, only writers can translate such trauma and turn sorrow into meaning, sharpening the moral imagination. A writer's life and work are not a gift to mankind; they are its necessity.”

Toni Morrison

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“What white Americans have never fully understood but what the Negro can never forget — is that white society is deeply implicated in the ghetto. White institutions created it, white institutions maintain it, and white society condones it.”

The Kerner Commission

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51 New Books to Read for Native American Heritage Month

November is Native American Heritage Month in the United States. To join in the celebrations, we’ve sorted through our recent archives to hi

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“But a lie is a house carefully built on rotten stilts. A liar often forgets the beginning of his tale before he gets to the end, and in this way one will catch him. A lie is a tale carefully told if allowed to be told, and I would seek to break his untruth by asking him to tell a different part of the tale.”

- Black Leopard, Red Wolf - Marlon James

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There was never a “War on Drugs” it was a war on the black community

“We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the”

John Ehrlichman, Assistant to the President for Domestic Affairs

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Time off social media boosts mental health, study suggests

It’s no secret that too much social media can be bad for one’s mental health. Now, research suggests that taking even a brief break from Tik