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I hope you find the courage to leave unrequited love behind this year. It’ll tear you down but I promise you it is worth every second of agony and pain. To wake up and fall in love with life, to not think about them every second of every day. I hope you are brave enough to put yourself first. And even if you’re not, I hope you’re on the way.

to new beginnings

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white film: doesn’t win like 2 awards media:

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There are SO many articles that are says by that Moonlight won because it’s more political, and it’s infuriating because 1. White people literally CANNOT imagine that people of color are able to excel. They cant imagine me that maybe there are Black people in this world who are better actors and actresses than they are, who carry a film better than they do.

2. The movie is about boys/men who are Black and queer. That IS political. In an industry that is determined to typecast Black men as hardened violent criminals incapable of anything but hatred, it is a BIG fuckin deal to see them be soft and vulnerable. It’s a big deal to see them be allowed them find love. It’s a big deal to see them find love in each other. Finally, a movie that allows Black men to act outside of their usual roles, and puts a different side of Blackness on screen! It’s political, sure, because white people made it so. But then winning was because Moonlight was the better movie, plain and simple, so white people can stop being bitter and nasty and trying to blame it on politics because y'all can’t swallow the fact that there are Black people out there who are more talented than you. 🖕🏾

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When asked why she is little known and why everyone thinks only of Rosa Parks, Colvin says the NAACP and all the other black organizations felt Parks would be a good icon because “she was an adult. They didn’t think teenagers would be reliable.”

She also says Parks had the right hair and the right look.

“Her skin texture was the kind that people associate with the middle class,” says Colvin. “She fit that profile.”

As she told The Guardian in 2000, “It would have been different if I hadn’t been pregnant, but if I had lived in a different place or been light-skinned, it would have made a difference, too.

After Colvin’s arrest, she found herself shunned by parts of her community. She experienced various difficulties and became pregnant. Civil rights leaders felt she was an inappropriate symbol for a test case. Words like "feisty”, “mouthy”, and “emotional” were used to describe Claudette while her counterpart Parks was seen as calm, well-mannered, and studious.

Colvin was one of four women plaintiffs in Browder v. Gayle, the court case that successfully overturned bus segregation laws in Montgomery and Alabama.

In 2005, Colvin told the Montgomery Advertiser that she would not have changed her decision to remain seated.

“I feel very, very proud of what I did. I do feel like what I did was a spark and it caught on.”… "I’m not disappointed,“ Colvin said. "Let the people know Rosa Parks was the right person for the boycott. But also let them know that the attorneys took four other women to the Supreme Court to challenge the law that led to the end of segregation.”

In 2013, Colvin was honored by the New Jersey Transit Authority for her part in the fight for civil rights. At the event she declared, “That was one of the first successful stories of how African Americans stood together united and got this law changed, so I’m so proud to be here to tell everyone my story. I can say—like James Brown—‘It feels good!’…. to get recognition.”

Colvin’s story is missing from our official history is an insult to the courageous women and young people who helped change the course of our country.

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Black Heritage Stamps with Ella Fitzgerald, Hattie McDaniel, Madam C.J. Walker, Harriet Tubman, Ida B. Wells, Bessie Coleman, Sojourner Truth, Anna Julia Cooper, Marian Anderson, Shirley Chisholm.