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Important ideas to consider when creating characters who are black and indigenous people of color. (x)

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Lil’ Kim at the 1999 VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards.

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mary j. blige photographed by deborah feingold, 1997.

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Method Man for the February 2022 issue of ESSENCE Magazine

📷: Flo Ngala

[thedeathofhireath]

Forever and ever 🤤

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#Repost @impact

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Blackfishing allows non-Black people to profit off of the marketable parts of Black identity without having to deal with the systemic oppression that comes with it.

✍️ written by @larasonuga

🎨 design by @anukivv

☁️ make an @impact

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⭐️ Fannie Lou Hamer by Allison Adams

 (1914-1977) Civil Rights Leader

Fannie Lou Hamer, a Mississippi sharecropper, changed this nation’s perspective on democracy. She worked for political, social, and economic equality for herself and all African Americans. She fought to integrate the national Democratic Party and became one of the first Black delegates to a presidential convention.

She was also youngest among 20 children and started field-work when she was only six years old.

She had a walking disability because of polio and had an eye blood clot after she was severely beaten by the police in a Mississippi jail when she was arrested, along with five other people, for trying to register to vote.

Most of her life she worked as a sharecropper or cotton picking where she also met her husband.

She was fired as a sharecropper when he tried to register to vote and spearhead voting drives as a co-founder of the Mississippi Freedom Society. 

She underwent surgery to remove a uterine tumour and woke up to find she had been given a hysterectomy without her consent.

“If I fall, I’ll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I’m not backing off.”

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In 1915, Carter G. Woodson traveled to Chicago from his home in Washington, D.C. to take part in a national celebration of the 50th anniversary of emancipation. He had earned his bachelor’s and master’s degree at the University of Chicago, and still had many friends there. As he joined the thousands of Black Americans overflowing from the Coliseum, which housed exhibits highlighting African American achievements since the abolition of slavery, Woodson was inspired to do more in the spirit of celebrating Black history and heritage. Before he left Chicago, he helped found the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History (ASNLH). A year later, Woodson singlehandedly launched the Journal of Negro History, in which he and other researchers brought attention to the achievements of Black Americans.

Born in 1875 in New Canton, Virginia, Woodson had worked as a sharecropper, miner and various other jobs during his childhood to help support his large family. Though he entered high school late, he made up for lost time, graduating in less than two years. After attending Berea College in Kentucky, Woodson worked in the Philippines as an education superintendent for the U.S. government. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Chicago before entering Harvard. In 1912, three years before founding the ASNLH, he became only the second African American (after W.E.B. DuBois) to earn a doctorate from that institution.

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[alwaysbewoke]

Just on case you thought she was bullshitting:

The Racist Origins of the SAT

The Racist Beginnings of Standardized Testing

I was encouraged NOT to take the SATs as a kid because of the racist origins of it. I didn’t and I’ve never regretted it. Whenever I tell ppl I didn’t take the SATs, they usually give me that sad “oh you poor dumb black person” look (especially if they are white or asian) however when (and if cause I don’t all the time cause who gives a fuck) I explain why and the racist origins of the SATs, they are usually dumbfounded, feel and look like fools.

There are so many things in our society with racist origins still alive today and being pushed on Black ppl as the path to worthiness or evidence that you’re not the barbarian white ppl say you are. Don’t fall for it fam. Never believe America when it comes to Black people and/or what makes a person great and worthy. Never.

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〔via〕

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Love Languages 🧡

Mine is : Quality Time

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Physical touch & Quality time 💜💜 are tied at #1

[theblackbdsmdom]

Physical Touch and Quality Time!

[alwaysbewoke]

jeeeez! meth is underrated.

[eddynnedd]

".... call me the CHAMPION" 👑

[alwaysbewoke]

If you teach the Negro that he has accomplished as much good as any other race he will aspire to equality and justice without regard to race. Such an effort would upset the program of the oppressor in Africa and America. Play up before the Negro, then, his crimes and shortcomings. Let him learn to admire the Hebrew, the Greek, the Latin and the Teuton. Lead the Negro to detest the man of African blood–to hate himself.

- Carter G. Woodson

This is why I am soooooo going to homeschool my kids. This “educational” system will only whitewash, brainwash and abuse black kids.

[smoothflo]

DAMN! When you look back your schooling that is exactly what it looks like 

[alwaysbewoke]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[meta-child]

I believe when George said this, he was speaking for everyone who lives on Mother Earth. No matter what country you’re from. 

Rest forever young, George Carlin.