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Africans, and African-Americans are Starting to Come Together. Ghanaian Company Invests $9M in Failing Black Chicago Bank, Urges Africans and African-Americans to Help One Another

A Ghanaian firm stepped in right on time as a Black-owned Bronzeville bank was on the verge of collapsing.

According to Atlanta Black Star, the Black bank has played a vital role in funding Black entrepreneurs, businesses and institutions, as well as sustaining the Black community and individuals in tough times. For example, the Freedman’s Savings and Trust company, established by Congress following the Civil War, was created to help newly emancipated Blacks.

Black-owned banks were also crucial during the Jim Crow era, as African-American communities across the country struggled to achieve economic growth and development, ABS reports. The Black community of Tulsa, Oklahoma, known as Black Wall Street, is one of few examples of African-American communities that achieved economic success.

Between 1888 and 1934, there were over 130 Black-owned banks in the U.S., according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. That number plummeted to 48 in 2001, with only 22 remaining today.

Noting past efforts to form partnerships that would foster progress for Black people, activist and president of the Metro Area Black Trade Council, Rev. Dr. Al Sampson, called for renewed efforts to create businesses and organizations that link African-Americans, Ghana Web reports.

“In the Jewish community, they find a way to help each other, and they have moved on,” Ndoum explained at a town hall meeting of Africans and African-Americans in Chicago. “The Chinese start with little and move on, and the Koreans also come here and move on,” he noted. “So, we have this idea: What is it about African-Americans, Africans, specifically Ghanaians?…. The African has talent, the African-American has talent, the Ghanaian has talent; the problem is a lack of opportunity.”

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Meet the artist honoring traditional black hairstyles with incredible braids (Fusion.net)

Shani Crowe is an interdisciplinary artist from Chicago’s south side. The product of an Art rich, Afrocentric upbringing, Shani creates work that is centered on keeping the proverbial flame of cultural coiffure, adornment, and beauty ritual, as they relate to the diasporic African. She seeks to connect with people through her artistic practice to convey a message of love, cultural identity and Black unity and to create a variety of visual and wearable art, prompting a meaningful exchange between the artist and viewer/client. (3Arts)

Crowe on “Why do you think it’s important to preserve black hairstyles?”:

Braiding is a sacred art in a lot of ways because it’s so rich in tradition—a lot of times we don’t really understand how much it means. I’ve always done hair and there were times when [braids] weren’t really as popular and I didn’t do them as much, but [now] all these white girls are coming out wearing cornrows. Someone asked me, “Do you do boxer braids?” and I was like, “You mean box braids? What the hell are boxer braids?” And she was like, “Those braids that Kim Kardashian wears.” Kim Kardashian just has straight-back braids and they aren’t even done that well, they looked pretty popped, and popped in Chicago is not a good thing. Because [braids] are coming out in pop culture and being exploited as a trend in the fashion scene, I think it’s important for me to honor them, before there’s a time when people don’t even remember them as a traditional black art. Plenty of cultures do their own braid styling, but African braiding has its own very long chapter in the history of braiding. I felt charged to make them tangible in a way where I could create an icon that honors my experience with braiding, my love for my clients and a celebration of black feminine beauty coiffeur in my own words, in my own images outside of magazines.

Each image has been captioned.

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Liquid fast tomorrow for two weeks. Fwm. Didn't you know I'm the African American herbsman healer? My house is where the goldenseal and muvawort is. Fwm. I've been on a streak since 2009, Sagittarian women ftw even when I lose. They're always around like fall off with one meet two more. Sagittarians. Energy is wild. Gemini women are the most wavy. creative independents. All humans and pseudo humans I treat spiritually first, everything else next. Life is a struggle of competing principalities. I chose up.

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Inside or outside, we encounter a lot of fluid dynamics every day. Here are some examples you might have noticed, especially on a rainy day:

Worthington Jets After a drop falls into a pool, there’s a column-like jet that pops up after it and sometimes ejects another small drop. This is known to fluid dynamicists as a Worthington jet, but really it’s something we all see regularly, especially if you watch rain falling onto puddles or look really closely at your carbonated drink.

Crown Splash Like the Worthington jet, crown splashes often follow a drop’s impact into another liquid. But they can also show up when slicing or stomping through puddles!

Free Surface Dynamics Anytime you have a body of water in contact with a body of air, fluid dynamicists call that a free surface. How the interface between the two fluids shifts and transforms is fascinating and complicated. Waterfalls are a great example of this, but so are ocean waves or even the ripples from tossing a rock into a pond.

Hydrophobic Surfaces Water-repellent surfaces are called hydrophobic. Water will bead up on the surface and roll off easily. While many manmade surfaces are hydrophobic, like the teflon in your skillet, so are many natural surfaces. Many leaves are hydrophobic because plants want that water to fall to the ground where their roots can soak it up. Keep an eye out as you wash different vegetables and fruits and see which ones are hydrophobic!

Check out all of this week’s posts more examples of fluid dynamics in daily life. (Image credit: S. Reckinger et al., source)

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Talking Black(prod. by Thumpmoses aka SunTzu Thump bka Dreamhard) by my maaaaiiin man Omega The Lost Poet #np on #SoundCloud and at #yamamashouse

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On Earth intercourse is the ultimate. It is the underlying factor to love and fear. The vessel by which love or fear will flow on this blue planet is intercourse. Intercourse, a physical spiritual act primarily devoid of a range of emotions, is the soil by which we grow as human flora. In ter course.  Sex?  

Who taught us these things? Beat the pussy up until you kill it. Strap up in order not to shoot the club up and give life. Take power from the moon and give faith and dollar to a pill. sun. Sex driving under the influence of a lymph tinged liquid in a milky styrofoam cup in and out the houses of the stars. 

Enter the course.

All my inspirations say it is a heaven. No haven. They reveal only or all of its non earth like qualities. The inherbody outer body experience that is more trance like than dream state. My feeling staying with her physically while I’m gone, a trick her spirit played on her mind that was felt in her sacrum. Her coital whisper lingers in thy occipital lobe bouncing in rhythm and melody. Sound seen as her movement triple time swayed between the light and the shadow, the smoke. water(s).

One’s organ of sex plays portamento. Bent notes like bodies wild panting grown to synched breaths. Who taught us to breath? Breaths through the nose as the the tongue dances round and rhythmic dosey-doe. Wordless body speech the builders of the tower overlooked. 

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on the front page of the Miami Herald with my brother Reggie for our film Summer Before Spring’s End https://vimeo.com/157779408 

Today was humbling day, a long day too.. Me and him had to go to work to close. Now im reading comments from people saying how the short moved them and whatnot. Its beautiful, and just thinking back to when we first start shooting. 

Two black boys on the cover of the newspaper ALIVE, and putting out positivity through art, for change. Its a blessing..  -peace

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Ghana has had a massive flood going on the past 2 days. Of course there’s no media coverage for this. But that don’t mean we should ignore it…

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June 12, 1925… First US TV Demonstration

91 years ago today, Charles Francis Jenkins presented the first public demonstration of television in America, with a synchronized transmission of images and sound. Using an electro-mechanical Nipkow spot scanner, the silhouetted image of a toy windmill was broadcast wirelessly over a five mile path from a naval radio facility in Anacostia, to Washington DC, where it was viewed by members of the Federal Trade Commission, the navy and patent office officials.

Two months earlier, Charles Logie Baird had done almost the same at Europe’s first public demonstration at Selfridge’s Department Store in London. The Jenkins system used only “shadowgraph” images, which were silhouetted images, while Baird’s system used lifelike subjects (a dummy’s head) lit with and arc light. For more, here’s a good link. http://www.bairdtelevision.com/jenkins.html – Bobby Ellerbee, Eyes of a Generation on Facebook.

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Many with migraines have vitamin deficiencies

A high percentage of children, teens and young adults with migraines appear to have mild deficiencies in vitamin D, riboflavin and coenzyme Q10 – a vitamin-like substance found in every cell of the body that is used to produce energy for cell growth and maintenance.

These deficiencies may be involved in patients who experience migraines, but that is unclear based on existing studies.

“Further studies are needed to elucidate whether vitamin supplementation is effective in migraine patients in general, and whether patients with mild deficiency are more likely to benefit from supplementation,” says Suzanne Hagler, MD, a Headache Medicine fellow in the division of Neurology at Cincinnati Childen’s Hospital Medical Center and lead author of the study.

A high percentage of children, teens and young adults with migraines appear to have mild deficiencies in vitamin D, riboflavin and coenzyme Q10, say researchers. Credit: © Adiano / Fotolia

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“Killing me softly” by Lucian Brihacescu.

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When 1′s intuition is scrong it will become overbearing to the ego driver. Egos, still growing in the shade in the forests of the Hotep(s) and Ashe(s), the vegans and the religious. But how did the soul not transform? Niggas outer wear is the only thing preserved, maintained, manicured, and managed. With outer words and outer greetings and outer intentions that begin from their outside and aim to reach your outside too; it is surface synthesis aimed at the episoul. 

I must remember how blessed I am. I must remember the time I had to fly away and wrestle with my ego while not needing to deal with the egos of my friends and family. Transformed thy self and returned home like the native prodigal Sun that I am. 

The Sun shines alone and then there are all the other things that emulate the Sun’s shine. The Sun shines alone. The Sun shines the moon; she in one place and he in another. And the spectacle of them shining together: overlapping, dancing, leaves all the children with heads or phones to the sky. Childlike, ooo’ing and aww’ing at the black and the light and the mingling of the two.

I chose. I am of the heavens. I am to shine and have eye fixed upon. Vanity and Narcissus and Echo breathe song and channel movements to my rise and well being. Yes the nymphs play to the lesser stars to disrupt my shine, but the Fates remain to me close like my Moon.

my moon.

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Raw Lasagna - with Zucchini as the Noodles

This recipe is adapted from @MatthewKenney and @Sarma is their cookbook from the amazing NYC Restaurant Pure Food and Wine. I love how they encourage us to play with the recipes and make them our own. In the spirit of full disclosure, if you want to read the original recipe, please get the book “Raw Food - Real World” - it’s fabulous and beautiful to look at.

As you can see in the images, the ingredients are simple and easy to get anywhere. My adaptation begins with the fact that I only had 30 minutes to prepare the meal and it’s just beginning to be Spring and I don’t have access to everything one would want, so I improvised.

The Sauces

The main success of this dish is the multi-layered nuanced flavors - which all come from the sauces, which are meant to mimic the marinara, cheese and pesto in a cooked lasagna.

Pesto

I don’t care for raw garlic and my wife doesn’t like nuts in pesto - so this is really a Basil Spread made by blending the Basil with enough Extra Virgin Olive Oil to make it spreadable. I add in a pinch of Sea Salt to punch it up.

Marinara

I use Sun Dried Tomatoes that are organic and not soaked in oil. Yes, I can make my own, and do, but these are fast, good and I didn’t have to wait two days. Take them and put into the Cuisinart, add a handful of heirloom cherry tomatoes, some olive oil and 10 sprigs of oregano from the garden. Pulse til smooth.

Alfredo Sauce or Ricotta-like sauce.

Raw Cashews are amazing. Once soaked you can do so many things with them (see my Cashew Milk recipe for instance). Put one cup of Cashews into the Cuisinart, add in 2 heaping teaspoons of nutritional yeast (this has the uncanny ability to give a cheese like overtone to the sauce) - the juice of one Meyers Lemon, a squirt of Olive Oil and ½ teaspoon of fresh grated nutmeg. Pulse til extra smooth - taste and adjust seasonings to taste. Might want to salt it if the lemon didn’t add enough acid.

Prepping the Vegetables

This is time for the mandoline, as you really need to get everything sliced as paper thin as you can. I have great knife skills, but I can’t get them as thin as they require. They have to be pasta-thin. I use this cool glove to make sure I don’t cut myself.

Look at the image to see that I have mushrooms, zucchini and tomatoes to work with. In the original recipe there are no mushrooms, and the tomatoes are Green Zebras - which we won’t see here in Santa Barbara for a few months.

Assembling the Dish

I have done this several times now and am most happy with the small square dishes you see in the image above. I have tried round, small, large, casserole (not good), and like these the best. However, I think maybe something in a clear glass would be interesting too. Best thing: no rules, make it fun.

I start with a layer of zucchini, then a spoon of marinara, then mushrooms, then alfredo sauce, then tomatoes and pesto, repeat until the dish is full. See the final image to see how I wrapped the top - as this becomes the bottom when you unmold it - and unlike lasagna we all grew up with, you don’t have to cover the top later with sauce and cheese to protect the noodles from burning.

Plating

The most fun is actually presenting the dish for your diners. I drizzled a little bit of Balsamic Glaze (NOT RAW) on the bottom, if you are super-pure, omit it and put something else, like a drizzle of the pesto thinned out for instance.

Then I carefully turn the chilled dish over and pop it onto the plate, I sprinkled a little bit of Herbs de Provence that we get from Shepards Farms in Carpinteria at the Farmers Market on the top. Viola - time to eat.

I served this with a side salad of hydro farmed butter lettuce, julienned daikon radish and french cut Persian cucumbers and dressed it with a Meyers Lemon and Olive Oil vinaigrette. A perfect, light accompaniment.

As usual, if you actually make this dish, and I highly recommend, as it’s really easy, then write me or send a picture.

Til we eat again.

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When You Burn Off That Fat, Where Does It Go?

Lipid metabolism may not sound sexy, but it’s how you fit into that smaller pair of jeans. And when the fat says farewell, it has to go somewhere. Only some of it winds up in New Jersey.

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Things you didn't know about your body

Namaste,

My name is Desiree and I have been following Steven as a student who is hungry for knowledge. Currently in college I am studying nutrition and will soon be studying the principles of exercise science. I have a similar goal as Steven, which is to advocate living an active lifestyle as well as eating a pure and unadulterated diet. 

I’ve found some interesting facts in my nutrition textbook, Understanding Nutrition 12th Edition, by Ellie Whitney and Sharon Rady Rolfes (Available online at coursesmart.com). For those of you interested in becoming a dietician, I highly recommend this book! 

The entire lining of your digestive tract is renewed every 3 to 5 days

Skin cells are replaced entirely by new cells every 7 years

Your oldest red blood cell is only 120 days old

Almost every action in the body requires the assistance of vitamins

Only 16 minerals are known to be essential in human nutrition

The small intestine is 10 feet in length, which provides a surface area equivalent to a tennis court

The small intestine is almost two and a half times shorter in living adults than it is at death, when muscles are relaxed and elongated

Saliva contains water, salts, mucus, and enzymes that initiate the digestion of carbohydrates

Foods eaten together can enhance each other’s use by the body. For example, vitamin C in citrus fruits can enhance absorption of iron from a meal with other iron-containing foods

An estimated 10 trillion bacteria representing some 400 or more different species and subspecies live in a healthy GI tract

And with these facts mostly being about food and the GI Tract, here is a buddhist mealtime prayer for you: 

“This food is the gift of the whole universe, each morsel is a sacrifice of life, may I be worthy to receive it. May the energy in this food give me the strength to transform my unwholesome qualities into wholesome ones.”