devoya

if i did it. it probably needed to be done! me= event planner, would be poet & playwright. sometimes u can find me playing records ya moms and them prolly rocked under the name ms soulflower. i dig dimly lit establishments, burn champa daily & i'm hellacrafty when the spirit moves me. follow me on twitter at twitter.com/devoya

[mielamiela]

Lake Victoria, Kisumu

[devoya]

N is for Natural.

[devoya]

L is for Learn. 

[devoya]

u is for us. 

[devoya]

baron davis snow cones. (((deceased)))

[devoya]

#hellacrafty

solange themed party favor boxes. 

[devoya]

The James Hunter Six "I Don't Wanna Be Without You" (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

The first single off of The James Hunter Six's new album Whatever It Takes. Shot on 16mm film. Buy/Stream: http://dapt.one/whateverittakes "The video was fil...

daptone friday night

[thcrstlshp]

I’ll bring you looooooooove 💕 Cute inflatable public art installation by @friendswithyou made in 2016 in Korea #publicart #inflatable https://www.instagram.com/p/BqMoxT7AhQ4/

[atane-deactivated20200604]

My niece on viola

[leftofblack]

Left of Black S9:E9:  Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States with Su'ad Abdul Khabeer

Left of Black host Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan) is joined in the studio by professor, Su'ad Abdul Khabeer (@DrSuad), author of Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States (New York University Press, 2016), which Marc Lamont Hill describes as, “a desperately needed intervention within Anthropology, Africana Studies, and Islamic Studies” that “brilliantly spotlights how Black Muslim youth construct and perform identities that embody indigenous forms of Black cultural production.”

Khabeer is an Associate Professor of American Culture and Arab and Muslim American Studies and future director of the Arab and Muslim American Studies Program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is also the creator of Sampled: Beats of Muslim Life. Sampled, a one-woman solo performance designed to present and represent her research and findings to diverse audiences as part of her commitment to public scholarship. She runs a blog, Sapelo Square, the first website dedicated to the comprehensive documentation and analysis of the Black US American Muslim experience.

In Muslim Cool: Race, Religion, and Hip Hop in the United States, Khabeer illuminates how young and multiethnic U.S. Muslims draw on Blackness to construct their identities as Muslims. This is a form of critical Muslim self-making that builds on interconnections and intersections, rather than divisions between “Black” and “Muslim.” Thus, by countering the notion that Blackness and the Muslim experience are fundamentally different, Muslim Cool poses a critical challenge to dominant ideas that Muslims are “foreign” to the United States and puts Blackness at the center of the study of American Islam.

[bon----voyage]

[oldfarmhousefallfeatures]

Inviting am I right? (FYI this is a #musthave gadget) if u like to soak in a tub!

HerriotandGrace@ig

[humansofnewyork]

“When I was the age of this boy, my father had a stroke.  My family used all our savings to take care of him.  And after we’d spent everything, my father gave up the ghost.  We were left in a desperate situation.  There was no money left.  There were six of us living in a single room.  I was only in 5th grade, but I had to go to work.  I carried oranges on my head and sold them in the street.  Then one day I met the owner of a print shop.  He was a friend of my brother.  He fed me every afternoon, and he began to teach me his profession.  He told me: ‘Never view yourself as having nothing.’  And he showed me that I could change my life with skills alone.  Now I have my own shop.  And anyone who has an interest, I will teach them.  I’ve taught fourteen boys already.  This boy has stopped going to school.  But we can’t allow him to be idle.  We must keep him busy because there’s criminality all around us.  Every day we see drug dealers walk by.  I point to them and I ask: ‘Do you want to be like them?  Or do you want to be like me?’” (Lagos, Nigeria)

[theselfcarelifestyle]

You can always start again. Clean out your social media. Create a new account for your new taste in music. Study or work in a new city. Start socialising with new people. Choose a new signature scent and style and purge the outdated parts of yourself. If you don’t like where you’re at, but you don’t know what to do about it - try starting again.

[oldfarmhousefallfeatures]

Indulgy blog/via Pinterest

[godfatherofsol]

Healing works in this same direction: from inward to out. Physical problems usually derive from or feed off psychological ones. The natural order of cure is therefore from the internal to the physical. What we love and desire constitutes the most internal level of our being. We are what we love. In this book I have dwelt upon remedies for difficulties in feeling and expressing love, because that is such a deep vein in human nature.

                            — Matthew Wood, Seven Herbs: Plants as Teachers

[buttonpoetry]

[amouria]

Crystal Valentine - “And the News Reporter Says Jesus Is White”. Support the artist, check out the full poem here.