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18 yrs young black woman. this blog is to uplift and show black people in a positive light .natural hair blog . show cases beautiful hair. Black is beautiful. All things African american. From fashion to hair. Submissions are welcome.

[happyandnappy97]

Geaux watch my newest videos Length check #1 and Product haul #2 #happynappy #naturalhair #transitioning #youtube #lsu19 (at LSU Cypress Hall)

[kingdayanna]

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[happyandnappy97]

Go watch my newest video : The Black Girl Tag

[happyandnappy97]

Part 5 picture results

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Ig:@carollline15 Found on FB:Natural Hair Mag

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👉 #submission 👈 @naturallyhilary

[thechanelmuse]

Beyoncé

She is now the third Black woman (behind Naomi Campbell & Halle Berry) to grace the cover of Vogue in the magazine’s 123 years of publication, and people are raving as if this is iconic. That’s not iconic. That’s ridiculous. 

The third in 123 years.

[jahmyaa]

….wow

[j-setteitoff]

Bethhune-Cookman 14K Gold [X]

Virtual Battle: vs UAPB Golden Girls 2/2

[kurleebelle]

Pretty. @simplybiancaalexa (at www.kurleebelle.com)

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17 Struggles All Suburban Black Kids Know Too Well by Pedro Fequiere

Meeting that one friend’s parent that you didn’t know was racist

Being the prime suspect of whatever was stolen at a house party

Your parents encouraging you to make friends with the only other black kids in the neighborhood even though you have your own friends

Not understanding all black culture references because you didn’t have as many black friends to experience them with

People coming back from spring break and comparing their tan to your skin

Searching far and wide for a salon that can do your hair

And people freely touching and grabbing your hair

Being called an Oreo, because… you’re not reeaally black

People assuming you’re good at any and all sports

Everyone looking to you to explain and demonstrate new dance crazes

People dialing their slang up a couple notches when talking to you

Swimming in a neighbor’s pool and having everyone marvel at how your hair reacts to water

People assuming that you have a huge crush on the only other black person in school

That moment when you learn about slavery in class and you can feel everyone staring at you

Being way more cautious than your friends about typical suburban mischief

People saying “You sound white,” because you speak proper English

Feeling constant pressure to represent your entire race, rather than just yourself

[americadivided-deactivated20170]

Fucking yes to all of this.

[thatkidfromharlem]

Struggles of the Black kid in any school setting, particularly college.

[viewtifuladam]

Listen, I’ve been to 3 different parties this year where something was stolen. All these parties i was invited to, I was the only black guy and I came with my friends which are mostly Asian. The next day after the parties, my friend would get a call or a text saying someone’s stuff went missing from a party, either weed or a phone. And they would ask my friend to ask me if I took anything. And of course I didn’t cause I do not steal simply cause it’s wrong and I would t want someone to steal from me. It’s funny how all the fingers get pointed at me cause I’m the only black kid at the party, and everyone fails to remember the sketchy white kids that were in the girls house by themselves while everyone including the house owner is outside on the porch. Of course I pointed out the obvious culprits, and when they got searched them that morning (cause they stayed the night at the party like they didn’t rob everyone) and everyone stuff were in their bags. Til this day I still never got an apology for being blamed or thanked finding out who stole the items. But I didn’t expect one cause I’m use to thing like this happening to me. The only black guy at the party. 😊

[wakeupslaves]

Black people were not allowed to laugh in public in the present of white people/racist

Did You Know That At One Time It Used To Be Illegal For Black Folkes To Laugh In Public?? Thats Right!! In The Jim Crow South, If We Thought Sumpthin Was Funny & White Folkes Was Around Youd Have To Run To The Nearest “Laughing Barrel” Stick Your Head In It & CTFUUU!!! Then Come Up Totally Str8 Faced OR ELSE!! This Is Where We Get The Term “A Barrel Of Laughs!” 

This Outta Give You A Hint On How To Handle The devil & his weak agents of evil!! LAFF AT THEY AZZ!! His Weak And Fragile Ego Cant Take It! They Just Can’t Stand To Hear The Laughter Of The Righteous! I Mean Really, We Take The devil Wayyy Too Siriusly!! When In Actuality To GOD, he Is Hillarious As Hell!! 

So When Evil Rears Its Ugly Head In Your Life, / the intrusion of white people Reach Down Deeep & Muster Your Most Sinister Laugh And Say “BWAHAAAAHAAAHAAA!!!!! You Will Drop Dead Where You Sit, Waiting On ME To Quit! And What You See, Is But A Fraction Of What You Get! Now Stand Aside & Un-Bar The Door! And Watch Me As I Rise & Soar!!!

[stereoculturesociety]

CultureHISTORY: ‪#‎CharlestonShooting‬ - June 24, 2015

Sen. Clementa C. Pinckney’s wife and her daughters follow his casket into the South Carolina State House. He will lie in state in Charleston until his funeral on Friday. PHOTO: AP | Rainier Ehrhardt

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@clatodd is a fun natural ! #featurefroday

[king-m-james]

No such thing as being "too dark skinned" in my book

Black is my favorite color for a reason.

[salon]

“We will not accept trickle-down justice”: Van Jones on mass incarceration, white liberals and “the black freedom struggle”

In an Op-Ed published by CNN.com last month, Christine Leonard, the executive director of the Coalition for Public Safety, and Van Jones, a former green jobs adviser to President Obama and the president/co-founder of #cut50, claimed that “a historic surge of momentum” had made “bipartisan criminal justice reform” a real possibility in Washington, D.C.

Noting the president’s much-publicized efforts to raise public consciousness of the problem, the significant number of pro-reform figures among the leadership of both parties, and polling that shows Americans of all stripes — Democratic, Republican and Independent — want to see systemic changes, Jones and Leonard argued that after “[d]ecades of failed policies and wrongheaded politics,” America had finally “reached a tipping point in the quest for justice.” But though the culture has “tipped,” they wrote, there was a lot of work left to be done.

One piece of that broader effort will take place in mid-November, when #cut50,Operation New Hope and the Ford Foundation will come together to launch “Operation Reform,” a bipartisan two-day summit for experts and activists to discuss systemic and realistic fixes. And many reformers also hope Speaker Boehner will make good on his promise to bring the Safe Justice Act up for a vote in the House soon. If the bill passes, and if reports of Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley’s willingness to compromise are true, change may arrive sooner than you think.

Recently, Salon spoke over the phone with Jones about #cut50 and the Safe Justice Act. Our conversation, which also touched on reformers’ strategies and the relationship between the progressive establishment and the Black Lives Matter movement, has been edited for clarity and length and can be found below.

Criminal justice reformer and ex-Obama adviser tells Salon “race-neutral populism” is “bullsh*t” and finished

[gnczhanna]

Puerto Rican Drought Master List

Basic overview of whats going on:

Puerto Rico is going through the worst drought it has ever gone through since 1994, water is being rationed and turned off for 3 days at a time in some parts, school days have been cut short, and farms are being destroyed by it. And yet even though Puerto Rico is a US Territory the US has done absolutely nothing to help. 

A longer, more indepth overview by tumblr used hurtbyjohnnycash can be found here (I highly reccommend you read this)

Even more articles on the matter:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/15/us/in-drought-puerto-rico-rations-water-setting-off-a-collection-frenzy.html

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/06/22/drought_in_puerto_rico_it_s_much_worse_than_california.html

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/08/10/3689223/as-puerto-rico-runs-out-of-cash-it-is-also-running-out-of-water/

What you can do to help:

Petition for the US to send aid

Petition for the US to send shipborne desalinization plants

Spread posts like this one, the overview linked above, and this one

If you are not a US resident and still want to sign these petitions simply google “US zipcodes” choose one and slap it in the zipcode box

Thank you and please please please spread this!