akenya

[akenya]

@Yanjusofine_ on Twitter 🤎

[akenya]

beautiful man

Today in Hip Hop History:

Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest was born April 10, 1970

#KamaalTheAbstract

[akenya]

First by genre alphabetically (ie autobiography, biography, black literature, children’s, etc), then by author last name alphabetically.

[akenya]

[akenya]

april fools day is actually the most sensible day of the year because it's the only day on which people will read something on the internet and stop for a second to consider whether or not it's actually true

[akenya]

[akenya]

Looking back, this is one of the formative influences in my decision to become a professional singer as a child.

LAURYN HILL Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit dir. Bill Duke, 1993

[akenya]

That soft fade as the door opens into the nervous “Hi.” “Hi.” banter always read SOOO rom-com coded to me. Like, I’ve seen this in the scenes of so many rom coms where some apology followed by an intense love confession was about to take place. Also didn’t Liv & Fitz on Scandal constantly do that “Hi.” shit to each other? What were the writers going for, yo? lmaaaaooo

Maura & Jane | Rizzoli & Isles 2x08

#rizzoli and isles #rizzles #maura isles #jane rizzoli

[akenya]

i needed to read this today so im sharing it to all of you!!

[akenya]

Black Panther Party starts the Free Breakfast for the Children program

[akenya]

No time to have you lurkin’.

[akenya]

😂

[akenya]

In the absence of a clear and obvious angle to attack Bushnell’s protest, most likely due to his status as a serviceman that would make outright insulting him or suppressing the news itself scandalous, discussions on Western shores have now taken on the familiar framing of mental illness. In Time Magazine’s write-up of Bushnell’s death, the article finishes with a link to the suicide hotline, and asks readers to contact mental health providers if they are experiencing a “crisis.” Mark Joseph Stern, a writer at Slate, seemingly unasked, also wrote on Twitter/X:

“I strongly oppose valorizing any form of suicide as a noble, principled, or legitimate form of political protest. People suffering mental illness deserve empathy and respect, but it is wildly irresponsible to praise them for using a political justification to take their own life.”

Conviction does not exist to the American. To be willing to die in a selfless act for what they believe in only exists for those outside America's sphere of influence. Many will recall reporting on those who self-immolated in protest in Iran and in Russia for instance where this sort of approach, unwilling to engage with the root of its cause, would not even be entertained, let alone written and published with sincerity. The Arab Spring began with a self-immolation. The self-immolation of Buddhist monks in protest of South Vietnam’s persecution became defining images of the war and its corruption. Within America’s walls however, there is a belief, unspoken and ingrained from birth, that democracy allows for everyone’s voices to be heard and that its representatives are inherently inclined to respond to the people and their widespread wishes.

Desperation at inaction or complicity in terror and atrocity need not apply. Everyone incensed by their government to such an extent must simply have something wrong with them. To be able to go about one’s day knowing that children are screaming from the hunger that is eating their insides and that pregnant women are eating bread made from animal feed, and that the United States is supporting Israel’s creation of this famine, is apparently the real sign of well-adjustment.

Seamus Malekafzali, “The Words Burned Through His Throat: The Sacrifice of Aaron Bushnell,” February 26, 2024.

[akenya]

[akenya]

hearts of darkness (1991) dir. eleanor coppola, george hickenlooper, fax bahr

[akenya]

please do not ever forget that the “americas” are stolen land. that we survive despite genocide. that we still exist despite continuing colonialism. solidarity with indigenous people around the world.

[akenya]

Fantasia Barrino as Celie Harris-Johnson and Taraji P. Henson as Shug Avery THE COLOR PURPLE (2023) dir. Blitz Bazawule

#black queer love #black women in love