ASE. (Ah-Shay)

Introduction to ASE Why did I choose to make a tumblr page??? I am definitely not the person who is initially attracted to social media. The only social network that I’m on (Facebook) I rarely use. I’m not a socialite and I’m generally pretty private. So why now??? What’s the purpose of this page? The purpose of this page is the burning need for more black’s, whom or wherever you are, to start speaking out and “acting out”. Not solely the complaining and ranting of issues that we commonly hear or read. But instead, speaking more positively about our community. Uplifting our people by celebrating our successes, culture, history, and ancestry. However, this blog is not solely going to encompass the positives, but also acknowledge and discuss the negatives in our community. This is an effort to evoke CHANGE by unity, pride, and perseverance. Now to understand the title “ASE”, the meaning ase is a West African word that’s spoken as a welcoming or when the masses have come together in agreement-and having power in what is/was spoken; similar to the word Amen. The Icon used above is the Adrinka’s MMERE DANE symbol, which symbolizes times of change and life’s dynamics. Now with all that has been said…..ASE.

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Meet Dieuveil Malonga, The Congolese Chef Whose Startup Is Taking African Cuisine To The World

Congolese chef and entrepreneur Dieuveil Malonga is the founder of Chefs In Africa, a digital platform that connects government institutions, training centers and businesses with professional chefs and young culinary students or apprentices looking for work experience.

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The woman who took on the British and won

Yaa Asantewaa and the fight for the Golden Stool

Yaa Asantewaa was a Ghanaian warrior queen, born around 1840, who rose up to lead an army against the invading British.

She is the first story in a new eight-part series, African Women who Changed the World, which aims to shed light on great African women whose stories deserve to be heard.

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Introducing Live Alkaline Water, the first #BlackOwned water brand to have products sold at Walmart. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ With its headquarters based in Jacksonville, Florida, the company uses water that comes from a natural alkaline water spring in North Carolina that Robert McCray’s family has owned for more than 100 years. McCray told First Coast News that his aunt once took him out to the spring and said "you’re the blood of your ancestors crying out for you and you’re responsible for this.“ According to Black Enterprise, “the water is sourced from a natural underground spring, an aquifer, and a mineral rock bed that lies 800 feet below the ground making it extremely pure and fresh to the taste.” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ McCray went on to team up with Dr. Shayla Creer to develop the brand. "I called … many Walmarts, and finally we got a hold of one who allowed us to do a presentation,” Dr. Creer said. After a successful presentation, the water went on to sell out within a month of hitting shelves, and is now sold in a total of three Walmart locations in northern Florida. The retail giant intends to continue to sell the water and hopes to add the products to even more of its stores. “Healthy people make a healthy community,” McCray said. “Eat right, drink right and you begin to think right, as a people.” The water can also be purchased online: www.livealkalinewater.com

Find more Black-owned businesses on our app: http://onelink.to/obwsapp

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Nina Simone: Take Me To The Water

"Take Me To The Water" by Nina Simone Recording session: Live at Morehouse College in Atlanta, June 1969

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SHOUT IT FROM THE MOUNTAINTOPS

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Literally makes me want to cry 😢.

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This is not going to end well.

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i want a problack husband who is gonna nickname me “earth” 

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Things are fucked up. White people knew they were doing shit but it didn’t stop them from carrying out a genocide, enslaving and discriminating. White fellas! Please don’t be like your ancestors.

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Tariq Nasheed: First look trailer - 1804 The Hidden History of Haiti

From the producer of the hit film series Hidden Colors, a new documentary film about the Haitian revolution called 1804 will be released in Fall 2017. This s...

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LISTEN: Let Brotherly Love Continue: An All-Male Public School Opens (Raising Kings, Ep. 1)

As Washington D.C.'s first all-male public high school opens, 100 9th graders will experience a school like none they have before—one that's grounded in love and empathy. This originally aired Oct. 18, 2017 on NPR's Code Switch.

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Our heritage of mathmatics:Traditionnal African method of the fractal system

Our heritage of mathmatics:Traditionnal African method of the fractal system,binary codes,are used today in computers,and other systems but origin is African...

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Justice Dept. to Take On Affirmative Action in College Admissions

The Trump administration is preparing to redirect resources of the civil rights division toward investigating and suing universities deemed to have discriminated against whites, a document says.

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A black man undercover in the alt-right | Theo E.J. Wilson | TEDxMileHigh

Scroll down below any viral video and you will find users waging war in the comments section, dropping racial slurs and epithets from another time. Curious a...

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A new chatbot called Raheem.ai helps the public rate police interactions.

Founder Brandon D. Anderson created the company after his partner was killed by police in a traffic stop gone bad.

Raheem.ai is backed by an accelerator for nonprofits called FastForward.

Raheem.ai anonymizes all the data it collects so users can be as candid as they like without fear of retaliation. The start-up plans to publish quarterly reports showing where police are working well or failing communities across the U.S. It will also deliver custom reports to precincts, cities or campuses to help them pinpoint areas for improvement, Anderson said.

This moment when black people create things to help us survive the racial profiling and police brutality.

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Why Learning an African Language Could Help Black People Bridge Cultural Gap, Do Business in Africa

A Quartz article is urging Black people to learn a regional African language. The article, written by Evan Fleischer, said learning an African language wou