The Yellow Ranger Sings

She's in A League of Her Own...Sleepy Hollow, Musical Theater, and whatever else I feel like posting. ;)

[specialagentmills]

Tag Game

I was tagged by @bermaids - huge Nicole Beharie fan and creator of beautiful Nicole/Abbie fan works.

Rules: Tag 9 people you want to get to know better.

Relationship status: Single

Favourite colour: Blue

Pets: None

Wake up time: 6:00am

Cats or dogs: Russian blue and/or black pug

Coke or Pepsi: Neither

Text or call: Text

Chapstick or lipstick: Chapstick

Last song I listened to: Crazy In Love (Beyoncé cover) by Sofia Karlberg

I tag: @still-in-a-heart-beat, @theyellowrangersings, @oppositeofariel, @lonnii-renae, @msvernell1, @dracovengeance, @v-ness-on-earth, @justkaynspring, and @ambitiousollie.

[theyellowrangersings]

Relationship Status:Single

Favorite Color: Blue

Pets:None

Wake up time: Whenever I feel like it lol

Cats or Dogs: Dogs

Coke or Pepsi: whoever pays me the most money for advertising 👍🏽

Call or Text:Depends on who it is.

Chapstick or Lipstick: Gloss 😜

Last Song Listened to: Put that on everything by Brandy.

[iamabbiemills]

Nicole released a new video for us! Check it out.

[theyellowrangersings]

Five weeks later.....

Many of us are still upset. And if things don't change Hollywood will continue to lose. This is not what my world looks like. My world is diverse and should be shown.

[iamabbiemills]

Please support our campaign. All the proceeds go to Black Girls Rock.

[nicolebehariewce]

“Just met Nicole Beharie from Sleepy Hollow. she is legit the most amazing person ever. FYI I totally played it cool when I met her.😎😂”-@bessjoel

[theyellowrangersings]

How lucky!!!

[theyellowrangersings]

I Am Abbie Mills

As you can see this design may look familiar to many of us. This design was inspired by “I Am a Man!” When I created #IAMABBIEMILLS, this movement was all I kept thinking about. A quick history lesson..I AM A MAN was created because of the terms “boy/girl” being used as an insult to people of color and slaves, showing a social status of being “less than a man.” Three-Fifths Compromise anyone? The reason why we are here today is for Grace Abigail Mills. Brilliantly portrayed by Nicole Beharie, Abbie’s life was cut short within a few minutes of the Sleepy Hollow season 3 finale. To me, Abbie was so much more than a character. She is someone we can all identify with. It doesn’t matter who we are or where we come from Abbie is us. She IS the audience, the person we navigate each mission through, the person that we want to be in our own lives. Abbie Mills is US. Killing Abbie in this way KILLED US/ME. When she hurt so did we, she cried so did we, and she smiled so did we. Her final word were “I’ve done all I was meant to do. I was meant to move you forward Crane.” In a few words all this woman has done in her life was quickly diminished and turned Her/the Mills-Dixon family line into “the help”. Women of Color have always been sidelined or moved to the background. Having Nicole in this lead role has been epic and she deserves better. We deserve better. Our voices need to be heard and our stories from our perspective. She (Abbie) is me, a strong young woman who has so much to give to the world and WE will not be reduced to the background any longer. The money for each shirt sold we go straight to Black Girls Rock! Why you ask? Because this is for every one of us that has been told we aren’t good enough….that little girl that has a dream of being more than just a name on a paper.

[theyellowrangersings]

https://www.booster.com/iamabbiemills?ref=copy-link_social_mobile-&utm_campaign=mobile-&utm_content=iamabbiemills&utm_medium=social&utm_source=copy-link

[theyellowrangersings]

I Am Abbie Mills

As you can see this design may look familiar to many of us. This design was inspired by "I Am a Man!" When I created #IAMABBIEMILLS, this movement was all I kept thinking about. A quick history lesson..I AM A MAN was created because of the terms "boy/girl" being used as an insult to people of color and slaves, showing a social status of being "less than a man." Three-Fifths Compromise anyone? The reason why we are here today is for Grace Abigail Mills. Brilliantly portrayed by Nicole Beharie, Abbie's life was cut short within a few minutes of the Sleepy Hollow season 3 finale. To me, Abbie was so much more than a character. She is someone we can all identify with. It doesn't matter who we are or where we come from Abbie is us. She IS the audience, the person we navigate each mission through, the person that we want to be in our own lives. Abbie Mills is US. Killing Abbie in this way KILLED US/ME. When she hurt so did we, she cried so did we, and she smiled so did we. Her final word were "I've done all I was meant to do. I was meant to move you forward Crane." In a few words all this woman has done in her life was quickly diminished and turned Her/the Mills-Dixon family line into "the help". Women of Color have always been sidelined or moved to the background. Having Nicole in this lead role has been epic and she deserves better. We deserve better. Our voices need to be heard and our stories from our perspective. She (Abbie) is me, a strong young woman who has so much to give to the world and WE will not be reduced to the background any longer. The money for each shirt sold we go straight to Black Girls Rock! Why you ask? Because this is for every one of us that has been told we aren't good enough....that little girl that has a dream of being more than just a name on a paper.

[two-seass-deactivated20180713]

I Am Abbie Mills. Abbie Mills Deserves Better, Nicole Beharie Deserves Better.

[theyellowrangersings]

http://deadline.com/2016/04/sleepy-hollow-nicole-beharie-finds-new-life-in-jacobs-ladder-1201739928/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

[iamabbiemills]

This breaks my heart. But this statement right here is why we exist.

[khadijahsjames-deactivated20170]

[iamabbiemills]

[iamabbiemills]

This!!! This is Why I Am Abbie Mills! @our-destinies-entwined s/o to you for this video and THANK YOU Nicole!

[iamabbiemills]

[profeminist]

The ‘Human Computer’ Behind the Moon Landing Was a Black Woman

She calculated the trajectory of man’s first trip to the moon, and was such an accurate mathematician that John Glenn asked her to double-check NASA’s computers. To top it off, she did it all as a black woman in the 1950s and ’60s, when women at NASA were not even invited to meetings.And you’ve probably never heard of her.

“Meet Katherine Johnson, the African-American woman who earned the nickname “the human computer” at NASA during its space race golden age.

An upcoming movie called Hidden Figures will celebrate her life and those of her black female colleagues, all of whom did important work against unbelievable odds but whose stories have gone largely unknown.  

In interviews, Johnson, now 97, remembers how her brilliant calculations—which she did largely by hand—forced NASA to accept her.

“I just happened to be working with guys,” she said, “and when they had briefings I asked permission to go. They said, ‘The girls don’t usually go.’ I said, ‘Is there a law?’ And they said, ‘No.’ So then my boss said, ‘Let her go.’”

Read the full piece here

To see my excitement level about the Hidden Figures movie, with Taraji P. Henson as Katherine Johnson, Janelle Monáe(!!!) as Mary Jackson, and Octavia Spencer as Dorothy Vaughan, click here.

Photo collage source

[winnie-the-bish]

You know what I find funny?

[theyellowrangersings]

#iamabbiemills meta

[theyellowrangersings]

http://blavity.com/why-sleepy-hollow-the-rest-of-hollywood-need-to-pay-attention-to-poc-fans/