[thepowerofblackwomen]

Jay-Z brings back ‘Friends’ with an all-black cast for his Moonlight video starring Jerrod Carmichael, Issa Rae, Lakeith Stanfield, Tiffany Haddish, Tessa Thompson and Lil Rel

[6lacksoul]

[muchlovekarax]

me: *writes adult email*

me: *hits send while screaming loudly*

[ourmelanins]

[stimman3000]

https://instagram.com/p/BbHkATIlxya/

[blackmenloveblackwomen]

Black Love

[blackmodelarchive]

Tracee Ellis Ross and her mother Diana Ross backstage at Thierry Mugler Spring/Summer 1991

[tillerboomin]

YASSSS QUEENS Y'ALL BETTA … Y'ALL BETTA

[soulfullynostalgic]

my scalp is on the floor at their feet for I’ve been snatched thus said the lord

[alannapplebum]

Lmao my cheer team did this 😂😂

[dont-call-me-twinnnn]

Too bad all our cheerleaders were white 😒

[thatigbogal]

THIS GIVES ME CHILLS EVERYTIME!!! 😍👏🏾👏🏾

[ithelpstodream]

[thetwelvecaesars]

Happy Indigenous Peoples’ Day! Let’s pause to remember those lost to the horrors of genocide and send light and love their way.

[trapdollmish]

Hey there 💖

ig@mishlikefishh

[black-women-beauty]

[bellygangstaboo]

I learnt some ish in this thread…

[hplyrikz]

“I don’t want to get attached to anyone anymore, it only destroys me in the end”

Unknown (via hplyrikz)

[theblackactivistcoalition-blog]

Happy Birthday to the Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey! The head of the UNIA and gifted organizer gave us the foundation of Pan-Africanism on which many of us stand. It is this ideology that swelled the ranks of the UNIA to up to 2 million Afrikans in the US alone, as it stressed the unification of all Afrikans on the continent and throughout the Diaspora.

He is the ever-present influence on all true Afrikan revolutionaries that came after him. We give thanks for all that he gave us.

Today let’s take up that mantle and join with each other - individuals, grassroots activists, organizations, and institutions - to create a New Black Power Movement that will build on his philosophies of a united global black force. We are building. Are you ready?

“Pan-Africanism or Perish!”

#newblackpower

[night-catches-us]

Representation matters: my six favourite black female fictional lawyers.

Clair Huxtable (The Cosby Show)

Maxine Shaw (Living Single)

Joan Clayton (Girlfriends)

Jessica Pearson (Suits)

Olivia Pope (Scandal)

Annalise Keating (How to Get Away With Murder)

[celebratingamazingwomen]

Edith Sampson (1898-1979) was the first black US delegate appointed to the United Nations. She was also an attorney, having completed Law School with a special dean’s commendation, all while working full-time as a social worker.

In 1924 she opened a law office that served the African-American community of Chicago. In 1943 she became a member of the National Association of Women Lawyers, one of the first WOC to do so. She was elected by President Truman to serve on the Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee of the UN in 1950, and 11 years later she became the USA’s first black representative for NATO.

[the-movemnt-deactivated20170912]

How Vanita Gupta became the DOJ’s unsung hero at the height of the Black Lives Matter movement

One of Vanita Gupta’s earliest memories involved what some might consider a hate crime.

Gupta was born in Philadelphia in the mid-1970s to immigrants from India. Before her fifth birthday, Gupta’s parents had temporarily plucked her and an older sister out of the City of Brotherly Love, so their father could take a job in the U.K.

They arrived in England shortly after the election of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who had exploited Britons’ fear of immigrants in her rise to power. England’s racist skinhead movement was surging.

“There were skinheads sitting next to us [at a McDonald’s] and sort of flicking french fries at me and my grandmother and my mom and sister,” Gupta recently said in a sit-down interview with Mic. “They were yelling at us, ‘Go home Pakis! Get out of this country!’” Gupta recalled. “Paki” is a slur against South Asians.

More than 35 years later, Gupta has embarked on a career as a civil rights lawyer in the United States, has overseen racial justice cases at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and has served as head of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. Her time at the DOJ ended after two years, with the inauguration of President Donald Trump in January. Trump’s rise to power has been accompanied by a spike in hatreddirected at immigrants and Muslims, including members of Gupta’s family in suburban Pennsylvania. Things have come full circle for Gupta, and now she’s in a position to be part of the resistance. Read more (6/9/17)

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