May 2012
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Is the black church guilty of spiritual hypocrisy... →
This article makes a very relevant and necessary point, but the term the “black church” is in the same vein as the term the “black community.” We’re not all cloistered together in one location with one ideology and one opinion—the African Diaspora is comprised of individuals. Not all black Christians dislike Obama for his statements on gay marriage. But, those...
“It’s ironic how the White girl mimicking Black culture has been viewed as...”
– Clutch Magazin
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“Unfortunately, it is often easier to ignore, dismiss, reject, and even hurt one...”
– bell hooks
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“Being white permits you to talk about paranoia as a mental disorder and to not...”
– Dr. Naim Akbar, Black Collaboration With White Priviege: Part 3
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“If you speak in an angry way about what has happened to our people and what is...”
– Malcolm X
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Full Hip-Hop Documentaries Online →
thechanelmuse:
STYLE WARS (1983) - The most essential of the early hip-hop docs, up there with Wildstyle, it exposes the world of graffiti, a culture burgeoning in New York with fresh art and an underground dialogue centered on notions of originality versus biting. An iconic slice of budget b-boy cinema.
Beat This!: A Hip-Hop History(1984) - This takes us through roots of hip-hop culture...
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Zebra Katz and Njena Reddd Foxx Interview WIth Sian-Pierre of Swagger New York
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“The main reason for disfranchising Gullah is that its speakers are generally...”
– Salikoko S. Mufwene, professor and chair of the department of linguistics at the University of Chicago, talking about the way in which English dialects that are perceived as ‘black’ are constantly disenfranchised by the majority who at the same time is reluctant to do the same to dialects that are...
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““There was one girl in our school whose mother made her wear a clothespin on her...”
– Assata Shakur
“Black heterosexual love and self-love frightens the shit out of white...”
– Son of Baldwin (via sonofbaldwin)
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SOAD was recognized by the Office of Student Development and Activities at The New School as the Outstanding Student Organization of the 2011-2012 school year. It is all of you who make SOAD what it is today and we thank you.
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“The reality is this: when Black straight men and boys are beaten, brutalized,...”
– Read part one of this four-part article in its entirety HERE
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Black Machismo by Essex Hemphill
Metaphorically speaking his black dick is so big when it stands up erect it silences the sound of his voice. It obscures his view of the territory, his history, the cosmology of his identity is rendered invisible. When his big black dick is not erect it drags behind him, a heavy, obtuse thing, his balls and chains clattering, making so much noise I cannot hear him even if...
April 2012
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“Whatever you do, do not let them begin your history with slavery; we did not...”
– Asa Hillard III
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How Student Debt Impacts Students of Color
anticapitalist:
On July 1 the interest rate on federally subsidized Stafford Loans will double from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent if Congress doesn’t act. Though this rate hike will have devastating consequences on more than 7 million students nationwide who currently hold a Stafford Loan, change will hit students of color especially hard.
The facts...
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A Complete Guide to ‘Hipster Racism’
tobia:
by LINDY WEST
There’s been a lot of talk these last couple of weeks about “hipster racism” or “ironic racism”—or, as I like to call it, racism. It’s, you know, introducing your black friend as “my black friend”—as a joke!!!—to show everybody how totally not preoccupied you are with your black friend’s blackness. It’s the gentler, more clueless, and more insidious cousin of a hick in a...
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“Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so...”
– Audre Lorde, ‘Sexism: An American Disease in Blackface’, in Sister/Outsider, p. 63.
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“However, comments about trans folks, black people, lesbians and women will serve...”
– Nico Lang: When in Boystown: Don’t Create Racism, Create Change
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“I always feel bad, man. I promise you there is no white writer out there, who...”
– Junot Diaz
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re worshiping black men
daniellemertina:
there is literally a way that you can be around ALL black women and then a black man walks in and there is like this visual deference given to him
i’ve began to really notice that
like everything he says is of utmost importance esp if it’s about black women… in which if he’s sexist he’ll do that fake complimenting “women” thing like while simultaneously hella policing women...
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“In contrast, the sexual violence visited upon African American women has...”
– Patricia Hill Collins
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