March 2012
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Ka'Ba by Amiri Baraka
Ka’Ba
“A closed window looks down on a dirty courtyard, and Black people call across or scream across or walk across defying physics in the stream of their will. Our world is full of sound Our world is more lovely than anyone’s tho we suffer, and kill each other and sometimes fail to walk the air. We are beautiful people With African imaginations full of masks and...
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Generational Gap between Black Youth and Black...
I find it distasteful when I am having a conversation with my elders sometimes and I bring up issues with the past and the present. One topic they love to attack is HIP HOP and how “negative it is”. So, what I like to do is shed some light on their generation misgivings such as the drug addicted artist or how most of the artist of the time did not give back to community or how a lot...
February 2012
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Kemetically Ankhtified: black history month facts... →
kemetically-ankhtified:
check these out in the meantime….
Black history month fact #21: Catholic Virgin Mary was Black.
fact #20: Africans founded Chinese dynasties.
Fact #19: Africans invented the calendar.
Fact #18: Africans came before the Mayans.
Fact #17 Africans discovered America
Fact…
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“And yet analyses of rape and sexualized violence play little or no role in most...”
– At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women,Rape,and Resistance-a New Herstory of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power (via brazenbitch)
What Does it Mean to Be Black and a Woman? →
What does it mean to be black and a woman? How is femininity measured, and who measures it? In 1974, Shirley Chisholm delivered a speech to the University of Missouri, The Twin Jeopardies of Race and Sex, in which she stated:
The black woman’s role has not been placed in its proper perspective, particularly in terms of the current economic and political upheaval in America today. Since...
“Who taught you to hate the texture of your hair? Who taught you to hate the...”
– -El Hajj Malik El Shabazz
R.I.P.
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I’m gonna need self-hating Dominicans to read some Malcolm.
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“Revolution is a serious thing, about a revolutionary’s life. When one...”
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"I find it's distressing, there's never no...
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—Yasiin Bey (Mos Def)