La Moda Vida

Global fashion, culture and language enthusiast

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How do we begin to dismantle a system that was not designed to serve or protect us? It should all be so simple yet it’s NOT!!! African Americans are still fighting for basic human rights in 2020.

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Iman, Teyana Taylor, And Ciara Cover Essence’s July/August Issue. Photography by Itaysha Jordan. Hair by Vernon Francois and César DeLeön Ramirêz. Makeup by Renee Garnes, Christiana Cassell, and Yolonda Frederick-Thompson.

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Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in you or the world, that one song stays the same, just like that moment. Which is pretty amazing, when you actually think about it.

— Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

— Carl Jung

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Compared to 1992, 2014 and even 2016, what makes this movement different? Why are more white and non-Black people showing up, why are the protests more sustained, and why are more people leaning into the idea of police abolition more than previous years?

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I just discovered who this professor was earlier this year & I love hearing her drop her perspective & insights on racism, and the systemic injustice towards black people throguout history.

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SAY THEIR NAMES

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Kenneth Willardt - Photographer

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