March 2012
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February 2012
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“If we were to be real and honest, we would have to admit that most people in...”
– Stokely Carmichael (1966)
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2. Prevent the rise of a "messiah" who could unify...
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“It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very...”
– James Baldwin
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"He was not a saint or a ghost"
“It is important to mention this because attempts are often made to deify Malcolm X to an extent that we place the great ideals and aspirations he held for our people beyond the possibility of human realization. We do this so it will not be necessary for us to live up to those ideals.
After placing his ideals on some great, unreachable pedestal, the only thing we have to do is have annual...
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“… My friends, we are one in this country. The question of the highest...”
– Booker T. Washington “Democracy and Education” 1896
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“The thing to do is to get organized; keep separated and you will be exploited,...”
– Marcus Garvey
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“Gang violence was here before rap music…Change the situation in my...”
– David Banner
Hearing Focuses on Language and Violence in Rap Music
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“As legal slavery passed, we entered into a permanent period of unemployment and...”
– Julian Bond
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"The question is, Will white people overcome their...
-Stokely Carmichael (1966)
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“Most of my Latino and Black people who are struggling to get food, clothes and...”
– Immortal Technique Poverty of Philosophy
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Afro-Uruguay: A Brief History
“When we think of the great nations of the African diaspora—Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, the United States—the South American republic of Uruguay is not one of the first names to come to mind. To the contrary: the recipient of almost 600,000 European immigrants between 1880 and 1930, Uruguay has long presented itself to the world as one of the two “white republics” of South America (its neighbor...
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Black people serve 60% longer sentences than... →
leftcollection:
“A new study by M. Marit Rehavi of the University of British Columbia and Sonja B. Starr of the University of Michigan Law School shows that Black Americans receive almost 60% long prison sentences than white Americans who committed the same crime.
The study covered 58,000 federal criminal cases and found that there was a significant difference between the sentences given to...
Anonymous asked: who was J Edgar Hoover
Anonymous asked: who was the leader of the black panther party
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capitalize upon existing conflicts between...
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“Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of...”
– Mary Church Terrell
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fuckyeahsoulmusic:
Whitney Houston - I Will...
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“As for white America, perhaps it can stop crying out against “black supremacy,”...”
– Kwame Ture (via howtobenoladarling)
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poem about my rights: june jordan
ancestryinprogress:
Even tonight and I need to take a walk and clear
my head about this poem about why I can’t
go out without changing my clothes my shoes
my body posture my gender identity my age
my status as a woman alone in the evening/
alone on the streets/alone not being the point/
the point being that I can’t do what I want
to do with my own body because I am the...
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Find Yourself!: By Marcus Garvey
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God made each man with something great-
The thing is to be found in you;
Please search and find the stuff remote,
And pine no more on awful fate.
The genius of mind is there,
It’s hidden, yes, for each to find;
Dive down, my man and find yourself,
And in the good of life do share.
The Negro has an equal chance
To make a world suit himself;
Go then and work your mental...
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Watchfuckyeahfamousblackgirls:
Dominique Dawes performs her floor exercise routine in the event finals of the 1991 U.S. National Championships
nothistory:
#Dominique Dawes
yagazieemezi:
Dawes is also notable as being the first African-American woman to win an individual Olympic medal in artistic gymnastics, and the first Black person of any nationality or gender to win an Olympic gold medal...
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“We must always be political. I think that culture, for example is always very...”
– Kwame Ture “Pan-Africanism — Land and Power” (via hatshepsutspeaks)
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“The Middle Passage journey from West Africa to the Americas took 4 to 6 months.”
– Try walking around without wiping your butt for a day or a week. Yep now try laying down in shit for 4-6 weeks, most of it isnt your own. Then add some blood and some mucus. Then grab some chains. Slavery was that bad. dont u ever fucking tell me it wasnt! (via howtobenoladarling)
Not to mention...
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On a sidenote: Isn't it funny how anything about...
Think about it.
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Anonymous asked: how did joining the freedom riders movement affect catherine buks -brooks life?
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January 2012
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“Just because there is one black man in the White House, doesn’t make up for the...”
– Angela Davis, speaking at Appalachian State University, January 24, 2012. (via douglass-forgot-the-chitterlings)
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