May 2012
114 posts
“You’re filled with antibiotics, hormones from meat, starch, soy, and hybrid...”
– Ma’at Sesh (via consistencywins)
This is beautiful…real talk since i’ve taken on a healthy/organic diet, and regular exercise…(knock on wood) I haven’t had nothing but one allergy incident in the past two years. I never get sick. No stomache illness, no head colds or flu…NOTHING. Get to your...
“In Africa, education remains an abstract and unfathomable concept, neither...”
– Education in Africa: Whose Education, anyway?
That’s the thing I always wonder when reading statistics about the number of people who die from malaria in African countries. Natural remedies abound but people only want to buy Western manufactured drugs. It is mind-numbing that anti-malarial herbs...
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I hate when people say “really.. in 2012” or “I can’t believe this still happens in 2012” as it relates to social issues. When was this Shyt ok in 1960 or 1870 or 1776 or any other time in history? People just assume that the progression of time equals the decrease in evil deeds. This Shyt wasn’t ok then and it isn’t now either.
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“We must be very careful to avoid the use of the term “tribe” to describe these...”
– Ethnicity in Nigeria
Why people should not even think of using the word “tribe”.
[via: cosmicyoruba]
(via monamade)
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Legacies of Malcolm X & Ho Chi Minh live on today →
fuckyeahmarxismleninism:
By Larry Hales
May 19 is the birthday of two beloved internationalists and revolutionaries.
Ho Chi Minh was born in 1890. He was the founder, in 1941, of the Viet Minh independence move ment, which eventually kicked the French out of Vietnam in 1954. He was also the leader of the National Liberation Front that led the fight against the U.S colonizers who replaced the...
Maya Angelou Opens Women's Health And Wellness... →
riotgrrrljacksonville:
Wisdom comes with age, and at 84 years old, Maya Angelou has lots of wisdom. But she says she picked up her most valuable piece of wisdom early on. “I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me,” she said. In that spirit, Angelou has taken up the cause of women’s health.
“If I do that well enough,...
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BREAKING: George Zimmerman Could Be Charged With... →
karnythia:
stfuhypocrisy:
The FBI announced today that George Zimmerman could be charged with a federal hate crime, a charge that would mean Zimmerman could face the death penalty if convicted. The FBI made the announcement shortly after Zimmerman’s lawyers received the list of witnesses and evidence materials, which included never before seen accounts of the shooting from witnesses, new...
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Yours Truly Cincinnati →
This is a my team service project report. My team had community conversations about the positive and negatives in Cincinnati to get the voice of the people and not just the community stakeholders. People that rarely are heard had a chance to speak and get their opinions recorded over the course of 7 events and two radio shows.
“Racism, sexism, heterosexism, and class exploitation as systems of oppression...”
– Patricia Hill Collins (via pussy-envy)
“Imagine a film such as Inception with an entire cast of black people – do you...”
– Idris Elba. (via jerrymuffinbutt)
