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tueofem: Selena

Tue, 14 May 2013 21:35:47 -0400

tueofem:

Selena

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Tue, 14 May 2013 21:32:08 -0400

diasporicroots: Her Royal Highness, Zaouditou, Queen of kings...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 10:23:45 -0400

diasporicroots:

Her Royal Highness, Zaouditou, Queen of kings of Abyssinia, Empress of Ethiopia (The Brownies Book January 1920)

In 1930, Googsa Woll , husband of Zaouditou , led a rebellion in the Bégemeder in the battle of Qwara. He was beaten to death and found March 31, 1930.

Two days later, on April 2, Zaouditou died (according to legend) of shock and grief at the death of her husband. Later, it was firmly believed that she was poisoned by her Greek physician Speculation about the cause of her death remain even today.

afrodiaspores: Frida Kahlo, “Portrait of Eva Frederick, born in...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 10:23:06 -0400

afrodiaspores:

Frida Kahlo, “Portrait of Eva Frederick, born in New York, painted by Frida Kahlo,” 1931

During her stay in San Francisco from November 1930 to June 1931, Frida Kahlo painted a number of portraits of friends and acquaintances. Although we know nothing more than Eva Frederick’s name today, it is not difficult to deduce that Frida Kahlo must have felt great sympathy for her sincere and intelligent sitter.

Some who describe this painting say that the subject of the portrait was simply a model for the painting and nothing is known about her. Others say that Eva Frederick was a professional black model who had posed in Mexico for Rivera and other artists and photographers.

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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 10:19:18 -0400

actuallygrimes: Chaiyya Chaiyya from dil se this beat is so...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 10:17:48 -0400

actuallygrimes:

Chaiyya Chaiyya from dil se

this beat is so amazing - if i ever get a reasonable budget im making a music video on top of a train

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Fri, 19 Apr 2013 10:01:05 -0400

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Thu, 11 Apr 2013 23:15:24 -0400

jvicy: Ryan Hemsworth - Diplo and Friends mix【DL】

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 23:13:50 -0400

jvicy:

Ryan Hemsworth - Diplo and Friends mix【DL】

Face to watch: Gwendoline Christie “Her statuesque beauty...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 23:06:29 -0400

Face to watch: Gwendoline Christie

“Her statuesque beauty inspired the photographer Polly Borland to base a project around her, and now the actress is making a similar impression on TV viewers with her cut-and-thrust role as Game of Thrones warrior Brienne.” (x)

real ill young fathers “sister”

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 22:51:58 -0400

real ill

young fathers

“sister”

kuroenigma: Balloon sellers in Afghanistan[sources: 01 - 02 -...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:41:15 -0400

kuroenigma:

Balloon sellers in Afghanistan
[sources: 01 - 02 - 03 - 04 - 05 - 06]

I wanna see a afghanistan version of “up”

"One of the problems with the idea that America needs a ‘Conversation On Race’ is that it presumes..."

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:39:49 -0400

“One of the problems with the idea that America needs a ‘Conversation On Race’ is that it presumes that ‘America’ has something intelligent to say about race. All you need do is look at how American history is taught in this country to realize that that is basically impossible.”

- Ta-Nehisi Coates (via theatlantic)

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Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:33:04 -0400

cultureofresistance: thepeoplesrecord: Got this in my email...

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 17:30:59 -0400

cultureofresistance:

thepeoplesrecord:

Got this in my email today:

Dear friends,

We are elders of the Maasai from Tanzania, one of Africa’s oldest tribes. The government has just announced that it plans to kick thousands of our families off our lands so that wealthy tourists can use them to shoot lions and leopards.The evictions are to begin immediately.

Last year, when word first leaked about this plan, almost one million Avaaz members rallied to our aid. Your attention and the storm it created forced the government to deny the plan, and set them back months. But the President has waited for international attention to die down, and now he’s revived his plan to take our land. We need your help again, urgently.

President Kikwete may not care about us, but he has shown he’ll respond to global media and public pressure — to all of you! We may only have hours. Please stand with us to protect our land, our people and our world’s most majestic animals, and tell everyone before it is too late. This is our last hope:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/maasai_fb_dm_3/?bNDofcb&v=23793

Our people have lived off the land in Tanzania and Kenya for centuries. Our communities respect our fellow animals and protect and preserve the delicate ecosystem. But the government has for years sought to profit by giving rich princes and kings from the Middle East access to our land to kill. In 2009, when they tried to clear our land to make way for these hunting sprees, we resisted, and hundreds of us were arrested and beaten. Last year, rich princes shot at birds in trees from helicopters. This killing goes against everything in our culture.

Now the government has announced it will clear a huge swath of our land to make way for what it claims will be a wildlife corridor, but many suspect it’s just a ruse to give a foreign hunting corporation and the rich tourists it caters to easier access to shoot at majestic animals. The government claims this new arrangement is some sort of accommodation, but its effect on our people’s way of life will be disastrous. There are thousands of us who could have our lives uprooted, losing our homes, the land on which our animals graze, or both.

President Kikwete knows this deal would be controversial with Tanzania’s tourists - a critical source of national income - and does not want a big PR disaster. If we can urgently generate even more global outrage than we did before, and get the media writing about it, we know it can make him think twice. Stand with us now to call on Kikwete to stop the sell off:

This land grab could spell the end for the Maasai in this part of Tanzania and many of our community have said they would rather die than be forced from their homes. On behalf of our people and the animals who graze in these lands, please stand with us to change the mind of our President.

With hope and determination,

— The Maasai community of Ngorongoro District

Sources:

The Guardian: Maasai fury as plan to lure Arabian Gulf tourists threatens their ancestral land

allAfrica: Land Grab Could Spell ‘The End of the Maasai’

IPP Media: Maasai villagers frustrate efforts to vacate for Ortelo

The Guardian: Tanzania denies plan to evict Maasai for royal hunting ground

The Guardian: “Tourism is a curse to us”

New Internationalist Magazine: “Hunted down”

Society for Threatened People: Briefing on the eviction of the Loliondo Maasai

FEMACT: Report by 16 human rights investigators & media on violence in Loliondo

The Endorois people (also in Kenya) were removed from their sacred land in the 1970s under similar circumstances & for similar motives (the establishment of parks for colonial tourists.

kattweston: brunomarsislife: THE MOST ACCURATE GIFSET IN MY...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 13:48:53 -0400

kattweston:

brunomarsislife:

THE MOST ACCURATE GIFSET IN MY ENTIRE LIFE.

I always do this though.

mothernaturenetwork: Homesteading: Bringing self-reliance...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 13:47:25 -0400

mothernaturenetwork:

Homesteading: Bringing self-reliance back

Kimberly Coburn, who founded The Homestead Atlanta, explains why ‘old-school’ is making a comeback with the modern homesteading movement.

uhh-i-can-explain: staycoldicequeen: Here are some...

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 11:41:04 -0400

uhh-i-can-explain:

staycoldicequeen:

Here are some interesting facts about him, though:

He basically saved public television. In 1969 the government wanted to cut public television funds. Mister Rogers then went to Washington where he gave an amazing merely six minute speech. By the end of the speech not only did he charm the hostile Senators, he got them to double the budget they would have initially cut down. The whole thing can be found on youtube, a video called “Mister Rogers defending PBS to the US Senate.”

“Certain fundamentalist preachers hated him because, apparently not getting the “kindest man who ever lived” memo, they would ask him to denounce homosexuals. Mr. Rogers’s response? He’d pat the target on the shoulder and say, “God loves you just as you are.” Rogers even belonged to a “More Light” congregation in Pittsburgh, a part of the Presbyterian Church dedicated to welcoming LGBT persons to full participation in the church.”

According to a TV Guide piece on him, Fred Rogers drove a plain old Impala for years. One day, however, the car was stolen from the street near the TV station. When Rogers filed a police report, the story was picked up by every newspaper, radio and media outlet around town. Amazingly, within 48 hours the car was left in the exact spot where it was taken from, with an apology on the dashboard. It read, “If we’d known it was yours, we never would have taken it.”

Once, on a fancy trip up to a PBS exec’s house, he heard the limo driver was going to wait outside for 2 hours, so he insisted the driver come in and join them (which flustered the host). On the way back, Rogers sat up front, and when he learned that they were passing the driver’s home on the way, he asked if they could stop in to meet his family. According to the driver, it was one of the best nights of his life—the house supposedly lit up when Rogers arrived, and he played jazz piano and bantered with them late into the night. Further, like with the reporters, Rogers sent him notes and kept in touch with the driver for the rest of his life.

The guy was a fucking bad ass gentleman.

What a fine sir

musemylifeaway: (via Photography / 80’s New York)

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 11:38:35 -0400

musemylifeaway:

(via Photography / 80’s New York)

"Power begins on the level of conception, not on the level of implementation. Examples are..."

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 16:06:19 -0400

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Power begins on the level of conception, not on the level of implementation. Examples are everywhere.

If you are a math student, and you enter a math class, and you can see, having proper conception, that Africa gave math to the world, therefore, “I’m an African, I can dominate this mathematics.” I bet you if you go into class with this conception you’ll dominate mathematics.

But if you come with the conception given to you by the enemy, ‘Yo, math is hard for us Africans. You know, All we can do is play basketball and music. You know this math just ain’t no good for me,” the math will whoop you. The math will whoop you.

Power begins on the level of conception, not on the level of implementation. That’s why it’s important for us to think as a people, not to think like the enemy wants us to think or even trains us to think.

”

- Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael)

Taken from his speech, “No Revolution Without Organization”

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQKlor9x_LM

(via disciplesofmalcolm)