My View from the Sun

@gloriajai

Outside of the usual interpretations of "cool", the natural finesse of woman prevails. Never accepting societal standards of beauty, forever challenging the ideals of mankind, it takes more than "swag" to achieve the desired levels of success. Equip yourself with intelligence and integrity.

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theslaybymic

Three Native American designers are finalists in Martha Stewart’s handcraft competition

Bethany Yellowtail, Kristen Dorsey and Jessica R. Metcalfe have two things in common. They’re all Native American designers whose culture influences and inspires their work, and they’re all finalists in Martha Stewart’s American Made competition. Native American influences in fashion, for better or worse, aren’t difficult to find — but rarely are they this authentic and reverential.

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gloriajai

Indigenous People's Day Realness.

whitegirlsaintshit

listen to this and cry

micdotcom

I am the black woman who interrupted the presidential town hall. This is why I did it.

I am Tia Oso, the black woman who took to the stage and demanded a microphone on July 18 at the Netroots Nation Presidential Town Hall in Phoenix, Arizona. I did this to focus the attention of the nation’s largest gathering of progressive leaders and presidential hopefuls on the death of Sandra Bland and other black women killed while in police custody. This is an emergency.

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of-royalty

LET THIS SHIT GO VIRAL!

blackfashion

I just fell in love

alwayskeepingit100-deactivated2

He can nut in my mouf

Melanin Monroe

Me either!

Never

NEVER EVER.

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femmefluff

What happened to the slave in America is an interesting thing because it was a different kind of slavery. It was not for the purpose of domestic slavery as most slaves historically had been. This was for the development of a market economy. So the slave had to face other things in America that were unique to slavery in the world as we know it. One of those things was the absolute destruction of your own self and your relationship to your history and yourself. I always tell people: Where is my song? Where is my dance? Where is my country? Where is my flag? Where is my language? Where is my religion? Where is my clothing? Where is my cuisine? All of it erased. Period. And nothing to replace it because the institution of slavery as it grew up in America became an institution in which the slave didn’t have a relationship to the community in which the slave found himself. That’s an incredible statement when you think about it because it means not only are you not an African, this generic “African”, but you’re not anything else. You’re a piece of property. What does that do to you? What kind of wounds does that do to you ontologically? What kind of wounds does that do to you psychologically? Well, it has a tremendous effect. So when people talk about the break down of the black family today, I say you got a lot of nerve. I’ll tell you when the black family got broken down, it was the 1600s, 1700s. When mothers and fathers were being sold away from each other and given new names, new identities and nothing else in return except a lifetime of labor, free labor.

Elaine Brown, from UC Santa Barbara talk "New Age Racism" (via femmefluff)

chic-cherie

So beautiful

blasianxbri

Trinidad and Tabago is so cute.

Well, they’re all so cute.

jeankd

Haiti is just slaying

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Ethiopiawit

radicalbehavior

Ghana 😍😍

whatwhiteswillneverknow

In a show of community and solidarity, for those 24 hours, we are exclusively posting and reblogging pics, gifs, videos, selfies, etc. of Black people. We want to show that Black History is happening today, right now. That we are all Black History.

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Promo posters by nukirk (tumblr and other networks) / whatwhiteswillneverknow

Hashtags #BlackOutDay / #BlackFriday / #BlackOut / #TheBlackOut

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