Africa

moyo muti unomera pauno

[king-m-james]

Death shouldn't be the only thing bringing Black People together.

[aliilovely]

THIS

[salutethetyrant]

notes low as hell.

[africa-will-unite-deactivated20]

True words aligned together to create an astonishing 💌

[blpower]

"I met god, shes black" Yes god is black but god is not a woman. It says it all over the bible. Why would you put she?

Well that is a metaphor, you can’t take it literally. I know God is not a woman.For me some quotes are like puzzles and paintings, you have to decipher. This quote “ I met god, she’s black”,for me it means that he is so in love for her that she became his rescue , his strength, his hope, she is everything you think when you hear the word god.Black women have a power and strength that makes them so special and unique.

Thank you very much for asking me I LOVE It. And sorry if I offended you.

X.O.X.O

[hotdryafricansun]

God has no gender, I call a God a she.

[themadbomber187]

FIGHT THE POWER!

[reverseracism]

Black Panthers. Yellow Peril. Brown Berets. American Indian Movement.

[brownblackandqueer]

This is the dopest photoset

[peak-widow]

The Panthers used to ride around and follow the police.

So the cops would pull over some sorry black person, and get ready to rough him up, but then there were the Panthers right behind them. Watching, armed to the teeth, and citing legal statutes. It’s inspirational.

[ssstop-it-sunflowa]

Bring it back.

[pumpkinmcqueen]

Bring this back.

[cosmic-noir]

For real.

[thefandomdropout]

That’s why the FBI broke them up, isn’t it ?

[goddesscru]

That among other community initiatives. They had weapons training, self defense, their free breakfast program and ran a newspaper. They raised money to pay for bail and legal funding for people. And they used to notify the community of their rights and encourage people to know the laws and protest the one which were unjust. That type of shit irked the local police and damned sure struck a nerve with the FBI. They were taking back the streets and providing the protection the police were never interested in bringing to their neighborhoods from the very start. So it’s always fuck the FBI for me.

[purplebuddhaproject]

[blackgirlsreverything]

BLACK GIRL MAGIC!! Sophina DeJesus, UCLA

[littlepandabear]

That was cute as hell!

[dntgetmad]

When did gymnastics meets get lit? They weren’t like this when I was there lol

[robynrockread]

59/ Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015) 176 pg

“This is your country, this is your world, this is your body, and you must find some way to live within the all of it.” In a profound work that pivots from the biggest questions about American history and ideals to the most intimate concerns of a father for his son, Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a powerful new framework for understanding our nation’s history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of “race,” a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men—bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can we all honestly reckon with this fraught history and free ourselves from its burden? Between the World and Me is Ta-Nehisi Coates’s attempt to answer these questions in a letter to his adolescent son. Coates shares with his son—and readers—the story of his awakening to the truth about his place in the world through a series of revelatory experiences, from Howard University to Civil War battlefields, from the South Side of Chicago to Paris, from his childhood home to the living rooms of mothers whose children’s lives were taken as American plunder. Beautifully woven from personal narrative, reimagined history, and fresh, emotionally charged reportage, Between the World and Me clearly illuminates the past, bracingly confronts our present, and offers a transcendent vision for a way forward.

[blackourstory]

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[universalequalityisinevitable]

[universalequalityisinevitable]

Peter Joseph on structural violence, from this video.

[ebonykalokoh]

Brilliant

[unapologeticexistence]

Spot on. Like Coretta Scott King said, I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her family is violence. Discrimination against a working man is violence. Ghetto housing is violence. Ignoring medical need is violence. Contempt for poverty is violence.

[peashooter85]

The Legend of Stagecoach Mary,

Also known as Mary Fields, Stagecoach Mary was one of the toughest ladies of the Old West.  Born as a slave on a Tennessee plantation in 1832, she gained her freedom after the Civil War and the resulting abolition of slavery.  After the Civil War Mary made her way west where she eventually settled in Cascade County, Montana.

In Montana Mary would gain a reputation as one of the toughest characters in the territory.  Unlike most women of the Victorian Era, Mary had a penchant for whiskey, cheap cigars, and brawling.  It was not uncommon for men to harass her because of her race or her gender.  Those who earned her disfavor did so at their own risk, as the six foot tall two hundred pound woman served up a mean knuckle sandwich.  According to her obituary in Great Falls Examiner “she broke more noses than any other woman in Central Montana”.

In Montana Mary made a living doing heavy labor for a Roman Catholic convent.  She did work such as carpentry, chopping wood, and stone work.  However it was her job of transporting supplies to the convent by wagon that would earn her the name “Stagecoach Mary”.  The job was certainly dangerous, as she braved fierce weather, bandits, robbers, and wild animals.  In one instance her wagon was attacked by wolves, causing the horses to panic and overturn the wagon.  Throughout the night Stagecoach Mary fought off several wolf attacks with a rifle, a ten gauge shotgun, and a pair of revolvers.  

Mary’s job with the convent ended when another hired hand complained it was not fair that she made more money than him to the townspeople and the local bishop. When the bishop dismissed his claims, he went to a local saloon, saying that it was not fair that he should have to work with a black woman (he said something much more obscene). In response, Mary shot him in the bum. The bishop fired Mary, and she was out of a job.

After a failed attempt at running a restaurant, Stagecoach Mary was hired to run freight for the US Postal Service. Today she holds the distinction of being the first African American postal employee. Despite delivering parcels to some of the most remote and rugged areas of Montana, Mary gained a reputation for always delivering on time regardless of the weather or terrain.

At the age of seventy, Stagecoach Mary retired from the parcel business and opened a laundry.  In one incident when a customer refused to pay, the 72 year old woman knocked out one of his teeth.  For the remainder of her life Mary settled down to peace and quiet, drinking whiskey and smoking cheap cigars.  She passed away in 1914 at the age of 82.

[exgynocraticgrrl-archive-deacti]

“So there’s a lot of silence about it, there’s a lot of tip-toeing, but we need to point out how these artists are really middle-men, that the big winners here are the industry. That they’re making money off of the deeply, destructive representations of black people, especially black women that is unprecedented. If Puffy’s got 400 million we know that the industry at large is making hundreds of millions of dollars off of these representations.”

Video Vixen: The Sexualization of Women of Color in the Hip-Hop Industry

[dynamicafrica]

[dynamicafrica]

The World War I in Africa Project Sheds Light On An Often Forgotten Part of History.

As a student of history for all my years of secondary education, I can’t say that I never learned about World War I, the events leading up to it as well as the aftermath it had on Europe and to some extent the United States. Perhaps we never delved into it in quite as much depth as we did World War II, but even then, I’d be hard-pressed to think of time where my history teacher (bless her soul) ever mentioned the impact that the First World War had on Africa and Africans. Such a truth wouldn’t concern me if the circumstances were different; if I wasn’t at a school in an African country, if I weren’t an African myself, if I wasn’t one of five black students in a history class of over 20, if I didn’t come from a country that was colonized by the British (who, as history goes, love war).

But all these things were and still are a part of who I am, and it is for these reasons – and so many more, that the World War I in Africa project is incredibly important learning for me. Even beyond the personal connection of history and heritage, the ignorance of many to the involvement of Africans in World War I and the integral roles the played speak to a much broader concern of the omission and reduction of black people and Africans in many important events in Western history.

It’s been 100 years since the First World War began. 100 years since the first shot fired by British troops occurred in what is today known as Togo, on August 7th, 1914. 100 years gone by and still, the world is yet to actively include and universally commemorate the lives of the estimated two million Africans who in some way contributed to the efforts of their colonial empires during this bitter war of the 1910s. World War I was indeed what its title refers to it as – a war that saw involvement on a global scale.

From the Gold Coast to German East Africa, Algeria to the southernmost tip of Africa, a new initiative is bringing to light the forgotten ways in which European politics brought the Great War to African homes. Through the efforts of World War I in Africa project, we are provided with a multimedia database that both highlights and archives the ways in which African lives were affected by a war they had no agency in. Because what happens in Africa should be told around the world.

World War I in Africa.

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[zooviette]

[flyandfamousblackgirls]

and more….

[bad-daydreams]

Forever reblog

[blackhipstergirly-deactivated20]

When you learn that we invented everything important. And some schools won’t even teach you about peanut butter. I know my hs and middle school didn’t smdh

[wakeupslaves]

excerpts from the destruction of black civilization

each one teach one simple #math

4 paragraphs that mean everything to Africans in America

[guccimedusa]

i WAS SO INTRIGUED BY THAT LIONESS THAT I HAD TO LOOK UP MORE INFO ON HER AND I AM NOT DISAPPOINTED

source

[chidofauxreal-deactivated201910]

I am every fckin color

[needstoescape-deactivated201908]

perfect

[dynastylnoire]

Sheeeeeeesh

[homosuccessful]

🙌🏾

[reclaimingthelatinatag]

The belief that Black and Latino are mutually exclusive is a harsh, hurtful blanket assumption that blatantly dismisses the Afro-Latino identity.

In this installment of ‪#‎DefineBLACK‬, Angeley Crawford shares her experience growing up Costa Rican in pre-hipster Bushwick, BK and the otherness that came with it. 

Posted by Define: BLACK. on Monday, November 9, 2015

[fomysquad]

A Chicago police officer arriving at the scene of a domestic disturbance fatally shot two people on Saturday, including a 55-year-old mother of five who authorities said was “accidentally struck and tragically killed.”

In a statement released Saturday offering scant detail, Chicago police said they “were confronted by a combative subject” that resulted in “the discharging of the officer’s weapon.”

But the families of Bettie Jones, who had just hosted relatives for Christmas, and Quintonio LeGrier, 19, a college student home for holiday break, say police violently overreacted to a controllable situation.

Both individuals were pronounced dead at hospitals within an hour of being shot

“He wasn’t just a thug on the street, he was an honor student in college and high school,”

 LeGrier’s mother, Janet Cooksey, told. “Seven bullets were put in my son. Seven.”

“Eight shots were fired,” she added tearfully. “One hit an innocent lady who was just opening her door. Something is wrong with this picture.”

He didn’t have a gun

Jones and LeGrier were black, but police have not revealed the race of the officer, according to the AP. The statement released by the department said the officers involved will be placed on administrative duties for 30 days while “training and fitness for duty requirements can be conducted.”

Janet Cooksey added: “You call the police, you try to get help and you lose a loved one. What are they trained for? Just to kill? I thought that we were supposed to get service and protection. I mean, my son was an honor student. He’s here for Christmas break, and now I’ve lost him.”

Quintonio LeGrier was shot in the buttocks, proving that he was turning away from officers when he was shot.

SOURCE

You see that it is not about serving or protecting but taking the opportunity to inflict their agenda on a populace that is defenseless and blindly faithful to principles in this country. Anyway, we must be woke about this and closely monitor the investigation. Lack of public attention may cause lack attention from the press and this may cause the opportunity to receive for #CPD go unpunished. 

#BlackLivesMatter #BettieJones #QuintonioLeGrier

#StayWoke #Chicago 

[lagonegirl]

Spread The Word

[blackourstory]

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