May 2013
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Watchdaftandchildish:
New Slaves (Live on SNL) | Kanye West
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“I will give you an example of how race affects my life. I live in a place called...”
– Chris Rock
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mslaurynhill:
Hello All:
Here is a link to a piece that I was ‘required’ to release immediately, by virtue of the impending legal deadline. I love being able to reach people directly, but in an ideal scenario, I would not have to rush the release of new music… but the message is still there. In light of Wednesday’s tragic loss (of former label mate Chris Kelly), I am even more pressed to YELL...
April 2013
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“Rap music is so diverse in its themes, its style, its content but when it...”
– bell hooks
“I asked a young White woman why she was studying social anthropology. She...”
– African feminist Ifi Amadiume
“If you are getting a colonial education, you are learning how to solve imperial...”
– Hatem Bazian
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“With the black man, we have no new element in government, but with the education...”
– Elizabeth Cady Stanton on why the black male vote does not matter (May 1867 at the meeting of the Equal Rights Association)
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10 black child geniuses you should know →
afrofuturistaffair:
If you only watched the evening news or depended on pop culture to paint a picture of young blacks, you would probably think that the majority of black youngsters were only ambitious about sports and music, or caught up in crime and debauchery.
However, the face of black success isn’t limited to the fields that are occupied by Jay-Z, Beyonce and LeBron James. There are a...
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“I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work for or demand the...”
– Susan B. Anthony “A HIstory of US Feminisms”
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BREAKING NEWS: A judge has ordered the FDA to make... →
shortformblog:
Previously, the pill required a prescription for girls aged 16 or under. In 2011, Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius made a controversial move, blocking an FDA recommendation that the pill be available over-the-counter to anyone.
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“The technological moment which gives us the Kodak—the first turn-of-the-century...”
– Photography and Lynching from On Black Men by David Marriot.2000.
(via howtobeterrell)
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“This whole ‘Civil Rights’ memetic apparatus has our people stuck on stupid. It...”
– http://denmarkvesey.blogspot.com/
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Black Women in the Feminist Movement →
theraceproblem:
Black Women who participated in the feminist movement during the 1960s often met with racism. It generally took the form of exclusion: black women were not invited to participate on conference panels which were not specifically about black or Third World women. They were not equally, or even proportionately, represented on the faculty of Women’s Studies Departments, nor were...
Collect your blackness in a bucket and pour it on...
kwesiabbensetts:
Kabb
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“Feminism has fought no wars. It has killed no opponents. It has set up no...”
– Dale Spender, Man Made Language. (via dumbledoreisabamf)
the feminist movement has supported wars (afghanistan to liberate the poor brown women, anyone?) and the cruel medical use of the bodies of women of color (history of how the pill was developed, anyone?) and the murder of trans women (the...
“The slave and the master understand differently what staying implies. The...”
– Lose Your Mother; Come, Go Back, Child by Saidiya Hartman
“The scar of slavery is crude, lacking a story of heroism it is permanent. The...”
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“In reading some of the documents I noticed frequent references to something that...”
– Toni Morrison on the bit (via howtobeterrell)
“Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind.”
– Michelle NdegeOcello
“labels are dumb” is a pretty weak sentiment coming from people who have never had to search for words to describe who they are or struggle to find others with similar experiences because they are the default everyone else is held to and frequently fall short of
emoshauty:
dont talk about how cheap it is to eat healthy ever unless youve literally been at the grocery store with your last 6 dollars like “okay let me figure out how to feed 8 people with this”
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“Hollywood is crazy: The Last Samurai starring… Tom… Cruise? He’s the last...”
– Paul Mooney, Mooney on Movies from Episode #2.7
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grimybear:
behind every successful man is hundreds of years of privilege
