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A.T.L. Part1!! 🔥On our Champagne Sh🕴🏽t!! Thank you so much Quavo for lighting up the stage with me. 🥂🚀🏌🏾🛸

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Miles 

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As we begin to celebrate the national holiday of May 16th, we shall begin with the RN1814 tour. 

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Janelle Monáe’s “Yoga” as Revolutionary Self-Care

Written by: Elizah Turner @iamelizah 

Imagine: A young Black woman singing on the airwaves. An up-tempo, bass heavy beat. A celebration of life, Eastern philosophy, and the practice of self-care pumping through the lyrics. 

This musical vision is Janelle Monáe’s latest track, “Yoga,” which has been heating up for a few weeks, preparing listeners for The Eephus, a compilation album slated for release in June. 

Many have criticized Monáe’s “party & ponder” song as too mainstream, or too hyper-sexualized, labeling her as a sell-out, rather than embracing her evolution as an artist. “Yoga” is pop-culture and radio-friendly, no doubt, but what is more appealing about the song is the clever commentary about how commonplace the phrase “yoga" is in our Western culture today. More traditional yogi’s may be baffled at the notion of aligning yoga with popular culture, but a good thing can’t remain a secret forever. 

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Dr. Mae Jemison, MD, the first black woman in space and first actual astronaut to appear on a Star Trek show, one of the very few people on this planet of whom two pictures can be posted depicting them doing their job on a spaceship with entirely different contexts.

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The concept of the simultaneity of oppression is still the crux of a Black feminist understanding of political reality and, I believe, one of the most significant ideological contributions of Black feminist thought.

Black feminist & scholar Barbara Smith (1983)

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And the Academy Award goes to...

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I think that’s a fair assessment. But I’m honestly not too worried about whether that happens or not. I’m interested in being imaginative in terms of creation and distribution via less conventional means. I don’t want to rely on trying to keep gatekeepers and studios interested and happy. It feels like subtle begging. I don’t feel like I should have to beg to be let in where others get a free pass. So I’m interested in creating my own means of distributing film. I don’t want to create a black ABC or a black Netflix or a black version of anything that already exists. I want to create something completely new.

Cecile Emeke (filmmaker) 

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Can someone just bury me into this image?

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