My mom has fairly severe respiratory issues and is recovering from joint replacement; her PT told her the same info about sleeping/sitting positions and how they impact the lungs. Fascinating.
Day 1: Cut out all sodas/juices/energy drinks and switch for tea or water for better sleep, skin, metabolism, and to kill excess sugar cravings.
Day 2: Do 50 squats every day before your shower to get that ass🍑
Day 3: Do a face mask.
Day 4: Paint your nails/toes with a cute ass design💅
Day 5: Make yourself a bomb ass breakfast before starting your day.
Day 6: Clean out your closet and try on shit to configure some cute ass outfits for future reference.
Day 7: Take an epsom salt bath to detox and relax.
Day 8: Buy yourself a new highlighter. Even a cheap one like ELF or Makeup Revolution can ya shit pop✨
Day 9: Take a selfie. Take 10. Take 100. Do your makeup or go natural, and gas yourself up with as many selfies as your heart desires. Y'all have no clue how much this boosts your self confidence.
Day 10: Pick/buy yourself some flowers. Love thyself.
Day 11: Do something different with your hair. Part it a different way, straighten it, curl it, dye it, whatever makes you feel glammed up💆
Day 12: Go for a walk outside. Get that fine ass some fresh air and exercise.
Day 13: Get your eyebrows done, or do them yourself if you prefer.
Day 14: Trim your split ends💇
Day 15: Try out a new lip color💅
Day 16: Go through old makeup and throw out anything unwanted or expired. Keep that vanity fresh.
Day 17: Go to bed early for that young beauty rest💤
Day 18: Go through social media and your phone contacts. Delete/block people you don’t like or want to talk to. Cut that toxicity outta your life.
Day 19: Wear a new perfume, or one you normally don’t wear.
Day 20: Exfoliate ya face with your favorite scrub.
Day 21: Apply coconut oil (to lenghten) or castor oil (to volumize) to your lashes before going to bed
Day 22: Buy or make a lip scrub to get them soft kissers😘 (diy scrub: honey+sugar+olive oil)
Day 23: Buy yourself a cheap, fake little engagement ring to remind yourself that you are married to yourself. It also wards off fuckboys.
Day 24: Stretch properly after you wake up, and before you go to bed.
Day 25: Make yourself a lit ass playlist on spotify or your phone’s music to jam whenever you’re feelin down.
Day 26: Make a fruit salad and gobble that shit up for a healthy snack (melt some dark chocolate and drizzle over it for a little treat)🍎🍓🍇🍉🍍
Day 27: Do some yoga.
Day 28: Wing out ya eyeliner like a bad bitch💁 Use scotch tape as a guide for beginners.
Day 29: Buy yourself a new bra or pair of panties to feel sexy af in💞 Target has cute shit for cheap.
Day 30: Meditate to clear your mind and boost your mood.
I’ll say something. You, you people… you are not a race, you are a virus, you destroy the world, everything beautiful you poison. You drag us from our homes, you rape our daughters, murder our sons, you crack our spines and do all you can to break our will. You stab us then you put the knife in our hands and tell us it’s our faults and if you don’t do it yourself you stand by, close your eyes and pretend there’s nothing wrong. And then, you pray to your God to silence our screams so you can enjoy the happiness we built for you – with our blood. But it’s not your fault, it’s the only way you know how to be and the only thing that’ll change anything is if another virus came along and does to you what you do to us.
I will never forget where I was or what I was doing the night I learned of the brutal murder of Oregon teenager Larnell Malik Bruce.
It was just hours ago and reminded me so much of when I first learned of the brutal police murder of Alton Sterling.
Just like that night last month, I was with my kids. Traditionally, when I am with my family in the evening, I don’t check my phone. Tonight though, it kept buzzing and dinging repeatedly. Text messages, direct messages on Twitter, emails, they were coming in from all over. When that happens in my world, it almost always means something horrible has taken place. This time was no different.
On Monday, I wrote a story about a black mother outside of Cleveland who was shot and killed on her way to work by a raving white madman after he ran a red light and rammed his Jeep into her car.
On Tuesday, I wrote a story about a 19-year-old black college student who was shot and killed on his way to work while he was driving his car through his Delaware neighborhood. Police arrested a 46-year-old white woman and charged her with first-degree murder. It seemed almost like the killing was done by a sniper.
Today, though, is a story that feels like it was ripped straight out of the 1960s.
Larnell Bruce, who was 19, had just moved to Gresham, Ore., which is near Portland, earlier this year to live with his younger brother and mother. Little did he know, that a random night in August would force him to come eye to eye with a notorious white supremacist and prison gang leader, Russell Courtier.
Near midnight on Aug. 10, outside of a local 7-Eleven, Larnell Bruce was charging his cell phone and having small talk with friends and passersby when Courtier and his girlfriend drove up to the store. Almost instantly, security camera footage shows a full melee breaking out between Bruce and Courtier. According to the Portland Mercury, Courtier’s girlfriend, Colleen Hunt, could be overheard yelling “Get him, baby, get him.“ Soon after, Courtier smashed Bruce’s head into the front window of the convenience store.
When Bruce pulled out a knife to protect himself, Courtier and Hunt got back into their Jeep. What happened next, much like seeing the Baton Rouge officer shoot Alton Sterling in the chest and back, shook me to my core.
As Larnell Bruce began running home, Russell Courtier and Colleen Hunt decided they were not finished with the fight and that they would use their Jeep and mow Bruce down with it.
First, as Bruce was on the sidewalk, they narrowly missed him. Security camera footage shows the teen doing his best to zigzag away from the SUV. As Bruce crossed the street, the couple, determined to run him over, crossed the Jeep into oncoming traffic and struck the teen head on.
Larnell Bruce, who suffered critical brain injuries, was found by police on the street with blood coming out of his head and ears. He survived just a few more days before succumbing to his injuries, but never spoke another word again.
This is the horrendous time that we are living in.
Russell Courtier, it appears, has been given break after break by the justice system. In 2011, he got away with illegally shooting several rounds from his car because police performed an illegal search. The next year, he slammed a woman’s head into a windshield, but was only given probation. He had just spent two years in prison for attacking another Oregon woman with a knife, and was on parole for this crime the night he killed Larnell Bruce.
In the meantime, our prisons are full of non-violent offenders who possessed or sold marijuana, but this man is free to roam the streets at night until it costs a young black teen his life.
Russell Courtier and Colleen Hunt have been arrested and charged with murder, but it’s all too little, too late. The damage is done.
Gymnastics has come a long compared to that old footage, but this difference is particularly significant for black girls! Because they have never taken seriously our abilities! Just because the color of our skin is not what they want to see!
Simone Biles’s fantastic performance has been covered by many news outlets all these years! Now we can see the real difference!
The Equal Justice Initiative is building a memorial for lynching victims — and it’s about time.
The Equal Justice Initiative announced on Tuesday that it will build the first-ever national memorial to lynching victims in Montgomery, Alabama. Titled “Memorial to Peace and Justice,” the EJI project will sit on six acres of land that used to be a public housing project in Montgomery.
The structure will include the thousands of lynching victims’ names on concrete columns, which will represent hundreds of U.S. counties where the acts took place. The memorial will also coincide with the opening of a museum.
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