November 2011
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October 2011
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“it’s pretty funny that some folks think black voters won’t be able...”
– ~Pearl Cleage
BET Shady 2.0 Cypher 2011 →
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RIP Reverend Shuttlesworth →
Rest in Power….
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Sylvia Robinson, the 'mother of hip-hop,' dead at... →
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September 2011
52 posts
Japanese kimonos by Cameroonian designer Serge... →
37thstate:
The name WAfrica is a combination of the word for Japanese spirit, “wa,” and Africa. “In 2007, I experimented with Japanese kimono by producing them with African fabrics,” says Serge Mouangue. “After showing them to Japanese audiences, many people felt the…
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BELLY: salty chocolate cake →
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black grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrls - heh heh - fuckin’ rule, drop squading our lovely daughters - salty chocolate cake!!!
first off, lemme make it quite plain: all women are beautiful no matter the race/creed/color - doesn’t matter. i have seen women from every corner of the…
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Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Dies... →
The Black Power Mixtape (1967-1975) →
“The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975,” among other things an extraordinary feat of editing and archival research, takes up a familiar period in American history from a fresh and fascinating angle. In the late 1960s and early ’70s, Swedish television journalists traveled to the United States with the intention of “showing the country as it really is.”
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“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The...”
– Nelson Mandela (via jazzzyone)
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Black and Married With Kids →
A positive image of marriage and family…
The Colored Girl Beautiful (Full Text) →
A 1916 book of etiqutte for African-American girls
~Madame E. Azalia Hackley
Follow This Tumblr! (Vintage Black Glamour) →
The Glamorous Life from the beginning by Nichelle Gainer