Kia Gregory

Journalist, etc. Exploring life in the city and beyond.

[kia-gregory]

[deuxniel]

Nina Simone by Michael Ochs, 1967

[hvnli]

connected to everything, attached to nothing.

[thelovejournals]

“can we see the magic in the moment, the explosion in the minor details, the spectacular in the everyday?”

— Black Beans Poetry (via shareaquote)

[kia-gregory]

Perspective | How a 50-year-old study was misconstrued to create destructive broken-windows policing

The harmful policy was built on a shaky foundation.

‘By laying bare the fabrications at the foundation of the broken-windows theory, we can see what critics have long alleged and what those targeted by the policy have known to be true: By focusing on low-level offenses, this theory of policing works to criminalize communities of color and expand mass incarceration without making people safer.’

[y2kange-deactivated20200527]

wise words from miss eartha kitt (1982)

[gayemarvin]

An artist, if he is truly an artist, is only interested in one thing and that is to wake up the minds of men, to have mankind and womankind realize that there is something greater than what we see on the surface. – Marvin Pentz Gaye, Jr. (born April 2, 1939)

[heaven-ly-mind]

Mt. Tamalpais, East Peak

[dapperlou]

Liming, Tobago

[thelovejournals]

I was too young to know how to love her.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince (via wordsnquotes)

[purplebuddhaproject]

[purplebuddhaproject]

[dennybitte]

let’s go swim

by Denny Bitte

[souleyes]

Alice Coltrane 1966

[thelovejournals]

I wonder what goes through your mind when someone mentions my name to you.

Unknown (via thelovejournals)

[woodsia76-deactivated20181210]

silvery checkerspot

[blackwomenworldhistory]

#Clara Belle Drisdale was born in Plum, Texas in 1885. She was the valedictorian of the graduating class of Prairie New Normal and Independent College, now (Prairie View A & M University) in 1908. She married Jasper Williams in 1917; the couple raised three sons: Jasper, James and Charles. Williams enrolled at the New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts in the fall of 1928, after taking some courses at the University of Chicago. While she worked as a teacher at Booker T. Washington School in Las Cruces, she also took college courses during the summer. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English from NMSU in 1937 at the age of 51. Most of Williams professors did not allow her inside the classroom, she had to take notes from the hallway; she was also not allowed to walk with her class to get her diploma  because of the segregation laws.