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Don’t scroll past this. Kylie Armstrong was diagnosed with breast cancer and these small dimples were the only signs. She posted the image on Facebook so everyone knows that “that breast cancer is not always a detectable lump.” Here’s how Kylie is doing today.

(If you’re not sure how to do a self breast exam, instructions can be found at BreastCancer.org.)

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This could save a life!

Good morning.

islandnaturals

#naturalqueen #naturalhairinspiration #naturalhair #naturalista #curls #kinks #coils #afro #teamnatural #twa #AfricanHair #texture #bigchop #twistout #kinkycoilyhair #healthyhair #afrotexturedhair #blackbeauty #naturalbeauty #naturalhairjourney #naturalcommunity #naturalcrown #blackisbeautiful #blackgirlsrock #afrokinky #returnnatural #caribbeanNaturals #IslandNaturals

krxs10

!!!!!!!! ATTENTION !!!!!!!!!

Illinois Woman Who Drove To Texas For New Job Found Hanging/Dead In Jail Cell 3 Days Later

Sandra Bland died in police custody this past Monday. Visiting Texas from Chicago to interview for a college job at her alma mater of Prairie View A&M, she was pulled over for a routine traffic violation (failure to use her turn signal). Everything from that point forward screams racism and foul play, including her death in the Waller County jail Monday.

The Waller County Sheriff’s Office told the Chicago Tribune that Bland was arrested on Friday and charged with “assault on a public servant.”

A video capturing the incident shows differently!!

It shows several police officers standing over Bland while she is on the ground, arguing with them about why they’re being so rough.

At one point, she can be heard saying, “You just slammed my head into the ground. Do you not even care about that?” She also thanks the man recording the incident for filming as she is led to a police cruiser.

Her friend, Malcolm Jackson, told ABC 7,

“After he (an officer) pulled her out of the car, forced her and tossed her to the ground, knee to the neck, and arrested her.”

What we see from a bystander video is her telling the officers she is in pain and cannot hear after her head was slammed on the ground by the male arresting officer.

We have now learned that Waller County Sheriff Glenn Smith, who made the first public comments about Bland’s in-custody death, was suspended for documented cases of racism when he was chief of police in Hempstead, Texas, in 2007. After serving his suspension, more complaints of racism came in, and Smith was actually fired as chief of police in Hempstead

Family and Friends close to Sandra, including most of twitter, is at an uproar, believing there was no way she committed suicide, and saying that foul play was at work.

“I do suspect foul play,” another friend, Cheryl Nanton, told the news station. “I believe that we are all 100 percent in belief that she did not do harm to herself.”

Source / Source / Source / Video

#StayWoke

mysharona1987

chocolatecakesandthickmilkshakes

This shit is like déjà never mind

goodluckrob-deactivated20221110

This is why being Black is some scary shit, man. This is why we’re angry, and this is why we’ll continue to be angry until shit changes.

onlyblackgirl

I love my First Lady

sagaltesfaye-deactivated2014120

Can you please tell her to tell her husband to stop killing muslims? Thanks

nnicckyy

literally all she does is try to make the country “healthy” by giving students shitty school lunches like please do something else and help your husband fix the economy! *goes awf*

onlyblackgirl

Imma need y’all to learn how the United States Government works. You don’t have to like her or the president but learn that they do not makes the decisions, they really do not have very much power, the president does not have the power to just snap his fingers and make shit happen or change things. You have to have 2/3 vote from congress to take a shit, let alone do anything having to do with government. The entire government was set up to make sure that exact thing could never happen, that is why there are 3 branches and that little thing called checks and balances.

In fact let me just break this down for y’all right here.

President has 2 OFFICIAL jobs, Commander and Chief of the Armed Forces, but he only controls a limited amount of the funding for those troops (enough for 90 to 120 days) to engage these troops in combat. He CANNOT just declare war. only congress can declare war. The second, Accountant over the Federal Budget.

He also is responsible for creating and balancing the national budget, but everything has to be approved by congress with a 2/3 vote.

He signs bills into law, can veto them as well, however congress can override his veto.

He assigns judges to the Supreme court, with the senates approval.

He assigns foreign ambassadors, with the senates approval.

he creates his own cabinet for people to research into areas that he might not have the time to, these are the only people who do not have to get approval from senate

congress is made up of 535 people (100 senators 435 HoR) for any of them to come to 1 agreement has only happened once in the history of this country, and that was to go into WWII, and even that the house voted 434 to one (1st woman house of Representative she was from Maine too, she voted against WW1 and 2) and the judicial branch can call anything unconstitutional and kill it as well.

and if you think i’m lying you can literally google this shit in 2 seconds.

linrenzo

That tea is delicious

yassss-black-diaspora

SAY THAT SHIT AGAIN!

pixiiebutt

I would love for people to remember this when they want to start blaming the president. Any president, though not all of them have had good ideas.

mattsunsthighs

lemme get in here a sec.

The President needs a 2/3 vote in Congress to get practically anything done, right? Well currently, the 133th US Congress is split with 53 Democratic senators and 45 Republican senators and 201 Democratic representatives and 234 Republican representatives. That makes a pretty even split between the two major political parties. Ever since President Obama was elected into office, the Republicans have voted down every piece of legislation he’s attempted to pass, in an effort to pin him as the worst president in American history, so that they can go back to their white-washed elitist lives and keep all their hoarded money from the people. The President has been doing everything he can to change things, but he cannot do that without the approval of Congress. Remember that week-long shutdown we had? Yeah, that was because the Republicans weren’t getting exactly their way with the budget, so they decided to shut down the whole goddamn government until they got their way. The United States Government relies on compromise and agreement between the two parties, and we’re seriously lacking right now in that department.

So if you want to blame someone for our country’s issues, blame the goddamn Republicans for acting like tantrum-throwing two year olds.

acinoyourfearlessleader

Fucking THANK YOU!

picsandpens

Still doesn’t solve the problem

My date last night.

#lilyofthedesert #eyl #sisterlocks #rusk #adore #sheamoisture

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Basically

18-15n-77-30w

Y’all need social skills…lol

trishtn

Sotrue

poldberg

While there is a lot of appropriate rage about Ferguson right now, the killing of John Crawford, III is getting less attention than it deserves. I put Shaun King’s tweets and history lesson on the matter in chronological order for easier consumption.

Links:

Autopsy and video show John Crawford shot from behind in Wal-Mart

Witness in murder of John Crawford changes story

You really should be following Shaun King on Twitter.

trishtn

Wow.

Decided I wanted some curls for the rest of the week.#chineybump #bantuknots #curls #volume #jamaican #winkins #tight #before #thatlooseonethough #wontconform