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blackexcellence · 11 months

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The North Carolinian feminist, mother, and healer Omisade Burney-Scott, joined us to chat about menopause. As the creator and curator of Black Girls' Guide to Surviving Menopause, Omi shared insights about the change, her work, Love Craft Country, and she was sure to create a vibe.

Check out Omi's podcast Black Girls Guide to Surviving Menopause

Want to hear the WHOLE conversation? Watch the full interview HERE.

#blackexcellence365 #black excellence #blackexcellence #black + excellent #menopause #omisade burney scott #black girl magic #black stories matter #black lives matter #black culture #menstruation #womens health #social justice #love craft country

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blvkenbyinparis · 1 year

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#james baldwin #black history #black authors #pinterest #book stack #notes of a native son #giovanni's room #blues for mister charlie #if beale street could talk #the collected stories #the devil finds work #another country #black main characters #blm #black lives matter #black stories matter #black authors matter

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sarcastic-salem · 2 years

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I watched the original 1992 version of Candyman today. I plan on watching the reboot soon, but this was one of the first horror movies I watched growing up. Although I think it’d be better as a supernatural crime thriller. I loved the story behind it, though. And then I googled the reboot😩

Has anyone slamming the reboot ever really watched this fucking movie?

The main complaint about the reboot was that it was trying to jam a political message down your throats.

Spoiler Alert

There was always a political message. Like ffs its stated in the original film — the one I just got done watching — that Candyman was the son of a slave and was murdered for loving a white woman. And even the white main character complained about how the cops didn’t give a shit about what happened in the apartment complex until a white woman got hurt.

Like, for real, what fucking movie have you been watching for the past 30 years?

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wookieonendor · 3 months

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#BlackHistoryMonth "Civil Rights in the Sky: The woman who paved the way for Black flight"

Pat Banks Edmiston in 1960. “When you want something, you fight for it.” PBS makes some wonderful programs. But they also make great short films! From The American Experience, this short looks at how Pat Banks Edmiston paved the way for black women to become flight attendants. With interviews with other mid-20th century black women who took to the skies, this is a look at how walls came down,…

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#Black Stories Matter #Documentaries #Short Films

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personal-blog243 · 3 months

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Please watch “American Fiction”! Highly recommend.

#american fiction #blm #black lives matter #black stories #black stories matter #issa rae

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misterburris · 6 months

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#black directors #black writers #theater #muhlenburg college #black stories matter #black theatre

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thejitterbug · 1 year

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MICHELLE YEOH. STEPHANIE HSU. ANGELA BASSETT. OSCAR NOMINEES.

#oscars #oscars 2023 #eeaao #black panther #michelle yeoh #stephanie hsu #angela bassett #can they all win pls #so happy for them #women’s stories matter #oscar nomination #oscar nominee #film #everything everywhere all at once

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mermazeablaze · 10 months

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I thought some of my Tumblr mutuals would be interested to see this article.

Viola Ford Fletcher, aged 109, just published a memoir 'Don't Let Them Bury My Story' about her experience during the Greenwood/Tulsa Massacre. It will be available for purchase August 15th.

"Her memoir, “Don’t Let Them Bury My Story,” is a call to action for readers to pursue truth, justice and reconciliation no matter how long it takes. Written with graphic details of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre that she witnessed at age seven, Fletcher said she hoped to preserve a narrative of events that was nearly lost to a lack of acknowledgement from mainstream historians and political leaders.

The questions I had then remain to this day,” Fletcher writes in the book. “How could you just give a mob of violent, crazed, racist people a bunch of deadly weapons and allow them — no, encourage them — to go out and kill innocent Black folks and demolish a whole community?”

“As it turns out, we were victims of a lie,” she writes.

Fletcher notes in her memoir just how much history she has lived through — from several virus outbreaks preceding the coronavirus pandemic, to the Great Depression of 1929 and the Great Recession of 2008 to every war and international conflict of the last seven decades. She has watched the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. lead the national Civil Rights Movement, seen the historic election of former President Barack Obama and witnessed the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement."

#Tulsa Race Massacre #Tulsa Race Riot #Greenwood #Black Wall Street #1921 #Oklahoma #Viola Ford Fletcher #Don't Let Them Bury My Story #Book #Memoir #Novel #Library #History #Black Lives Matter #BLM

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pagansphinx · 3 months

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Celebrating Black History Month with a selection of artworks and the art history of Black American artists.

Tar Beach Story Quilt • # 1 of 5 in the series Woman on a Bridge • 1988 • Acrylic paint, canvas, printed fabric, ink, and thread • The Guggenheim Museum, New York City

Ringgold’s creates quilts — a traditional American craft associated with women’s communal work that also has roots in African culture. She originally collaborated on the quilt motif with her mother, a dressmaker and fashion designer in Harlem. That Ringgold’s great-great-great-grandmother was a Southern slave who made quilts for plantation owners suggests a further, perhaps deeper, connection between her art and her family history. – The Guggenheim Museum

#art #art history #textile art #faith ringgold #woman artist #quilt artist #story quilts #narrative artwork #mixed media artwork #african american artist #black art matters #black american art #black history month 2024

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mimi-0007 · 10 months

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African American history is American History!! You can't hide it!! Can't sweep it under the rug!!

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blackexcellence · 2 years

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FRIDAY FOLLOWS

blogs to watch // blogs we love

@uglifruit *makes mini rugs* (and takes commissions)

2. freelance photographer @cellyphoto 😍

3. Follow @resilient22 for a little bit of everything

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cinamun · 6 months

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Movie night | Next

Total pregnancy weight gain = 32 pounds

Weight loss to date = 27 pounds (Goal)

An extra 5 in the thigh for Jay. Well done girlie.

You can follow Hope's journey here and here also the good sis @afrosimtricsims never misses with the selfie poses.

#ts4 #indya #black simblr #i love them sm #Jay is secretly mourning those 25 pounds Hope snatched off #but he appreciates her body no matter what #she kept some extra thigh meat for him #and marriage is all about compromise #its what we love to see #ts4 story #sims 4 story #simblr #ch23

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thottybrucewayne · 2 months

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The realest advice I was ever given? "Never trust Black folks who wanna be the only Black person in the room."

#thotty speaks #thotty rants #I hope she heals. I do. Like you talk about how Black people don't like you ah ah ah but then you do everything in your power to side with #Whatever white person is speaking it doesn't matter if they deadass wrong...#Also picking up that habit of calling every person who speaks about transness in an 'embarrassing' way a 'tenderqueer' when the 'tenderness #in question on display is someone criticizing a show you like for having bigoted jokes/themes its like... who's really the sensitive one?#Tbh I should have so the red flags when we was talking for that lil while but now that I know her whole story and who she runs with now?#Things are starting to make WAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too much sense

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benandstevesposts · 10 months

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CALIFORNIA POLICE OFFICER IN SPOTLIGHT FOR BODY SLAMMING LADY OUTSIDE GROCERY STORE

A police officer’s violent actions in southern California are being investigated after video footage showed the white cop brutalizing an unarmed Black woman for the apparent offense of recording officers detaining her husband.

The video footage recorded by a witness began by showing the woman holding a cell phone and filming officers handcuffing her husband, who can be heard repeatedly asking “why” he was being detained outside the supermarket in Lancaster.

After two officers struggled to handcuff the husband, one walked directly to the wife. When the camera follows the officer, he’s shown grabbing the wife by the back of her neck before violently flinging her to the ground.

The person recording can be heard yelling for the cop to “get off of her” and not to hit her to no avail.

The cop is next shown kneeling on the wife’s neck, evoking horrific imagery from Derek Chavin’s police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

As with the woman’s husband, the officer struggled to place her in handcuffs even though she wasn’t resisting.

Her husband can be heard in the background pleading for the officer to stop. He also said she has cancer. Neither claim prevented the officer from accosting the woman standing at least 20 feet away from the officers when they were handcuffing her husband.

To view the video, you may visit the original report by visiting the site it appeared here.

UPDATED REPORT ADDED REGARDING AREA WHERE ALLEGED ASSAULT TOOK PLACE

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nandi4everokay · 3 months

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misterburris · 2 years

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Filming TRU LIFE STORY by Robin S. Williams.

#black actors #black directors #black film #black stories matter

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