R.A

[fireworkzfox]

[unillustratedadventures]

It’s totally fucking fucked mate, big time (but these are some potentially validating things)

[beyonce-knowles-carter]

➤ BEYONCÉ adidas x IVY PARK DRIP 2 (OCTOBER 30, 2020)

[dynamicafrica]

(NSFW) Black Athletes in the ESPN’s 2014 Body Issue.

Serge Ibaka (Basketball)

Venus Williams (Tennis)

Aja Evans (Bobsleigh)

Nigel Sylvester (BMX)

Marshawn Lynch (American Football)

Prince Fielder (Baseball)

Larry Fitzgerald (American Football)

Bernard Hopkins (Boxing)

(more photos)

[lovelyandbrown]

Yesssssss

[jas0nwaterfalls-deactivated2014]

This is dope as hell man

I can’t even front on these beautiful ass people.

[fireworkzfox]

[bongjoonhoe]

Voguing is the same thing as, like, taking two knives and cutting each other up, but through a dance form. Voguing came from shade, because it was a dance that two people did because they didn’t like each other. Instead of fighting, you would dance it out on the dance floor, and whoever did the better moves was throwing the best shade, basically.

The name was taken from the magazine “Vogue”, because some of the movements of the dance are also the same as the poses inside the magazine. The name is a statement in itself. I mean, you really wouldn’t go to a ball to do the “Mademoiselle”. No way.

Like break dancing, the dance takes from the hieroglyphics of Ancient Egypt. It also takes from some forms of gymnastics. They both strive for perfect lines in the body, awkward positions, but it goes one step further. 

It’s starting to make a name for itself, but I want it to be known worldwide, and I wanna be on top of it when it hits.

- Willi Ninja, Paris is Burning (1990) dir. Jennie Livingston

[bluecloudsphotography]

ReBirth with @acupoftheo

Photographed By: Enem Odeh

Assisted By: Casandra Tchakoute & Daluchukwu Iwegbu

[theambassadorposts]

Love Black Women

[classicbeyonce]

dreamgirls, 2006

[theamericanparlor]

Meet the Iowa Architect Documenting Every Slave House Still Standing

Jobie Hill has visited 700 former residences. Many have been abandoned. Some have become storage space. Others are B&Bs.

Hill recognizes these sites as sacred spaces…

Hill’s arduous research process—identifying slave houses in archives that often mention them only in passing—is what ultimately inspired her to create the Slave House Database.

“Hill’s project is important,” Vargas says, adding that he believes that extant slave houses should be declared protected heritage sites or national monuments. “Preserving slave cabins … will help make the history of slavery visible to the general public.

Since 2012, Hill has documented approximately 700 buildings at more than 140 sites in six states. In 2017, a new trove of slave narratives was digitized at Southern University and A&M College in Louisiana, representing 229 stories from 17 states. Hill has been poring through these narratives to identify building descriptions that will help her match slave houses with the people who might have lived in them. She’s also scheduling new site visits, with a special focus on Alabama, which has more than 100 HABS-documented houses.

[freediaspora]

[beyhq]

[la-scorpiana]

Imma tell my kids that this was the PowerPuff Girls

[black-girls-wizdom]

M E S S A G E!!!

[fireworkzfox]

[securelyinsecure]

Tatyana Ali and her beautiful family

[nomediocre]

[luckylluminati]

“Intimacy is not who you let touch you. Intimacy is who you text at 3 am about your dreams and fears. Intimacy is giving someone your attention, when ten other people are asking for it. Intimacy is the person always in the back of your mind, no matter how distracted you are.”