theeducatedfieldnegro:

infinity-imagined:

The Highest-Resolution Photograph of Planet Earth ever taken.

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Land without borders! ..One human body

afro-art-chick:

“Jazz music is a language of the emotions.”

“That sound in tune to you? Sounds sharp to me. Sounds like I’m playing sharp all the time. My singing teacher told us you should do that. Maybe I got it from her. She said singers when they grow old have a tendency to go flat. So if you sing sharp as a young person, as you get older and go flat, you’ll be in tune. In other words, it’s never thought good to be flat. It means you can’t get to the tone.”

“Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.”

“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.”

“Good jazz is when the leader jumps on the piano, waves his arms, and yells. Fine jazz is when a tenorman lifts his foot in the air. Great jazz is when he heaves a piercing note for 32 bars and collapses on his hands and knees. A pure genius of jazz is manifested when he and the rest of the orchestra runaround the room while the rhythm section grimaces and dances around their instruments.”

I’m trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it’s difficult is because I’m changing all the time.”

“Just because I’m playing Jazz I don’t forget about me. I play or write me the way I feel through Jazz.”

Happy 90th Birthday to  jazz musician, composer, bandleader and civil rights activist Charles Mingus Jr. (b. April 22, 1922 – d. January 5, 1979)

Various Urban African Cities

37thstate:

Cotonou, Benin

Abuja, Nigeria

Algiers, Algeria

Ouagadougou, Bourkina Faso

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Dakar, Senegal

Kampala,Uganda

Mombasa, Kenya

Lome, Togo

Luanda, Angola

Rabat, Morocco

Monrovia, Liberia

Luanda, Angola

Lome, Togo

Kinshasa, Congo

Maputu, Mozambique

Marrakesh, Morocco

Alexandria, Egypt

Kinshasa, Congo

Nairobi, Kenya

Gabrone, Botswana

Harare, Zimbabwe

Bamako, Mali

Dakar, Senegal

Fes, Morocco

Marrakesh, Morocco

 

Johannesburg, South Africa

Cairo, Egypt

Durban, South Africa

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“In Texas, they lynch negroes. My teammates and I saw a man strung up by his neck — and set on fire. We drove through a lynch mob, pressed our faces against the floorboard. I looked at my teammates. I saw the fear in their eyes; and worse — the shame. What was this negro’s crime that he should be hung, without trial, in a dark forest filled with fog? Was he a thief? Was he a killer? Or just a negro? Was he a sharecropper? A preacher? Were his children waiting up for him? And who were we to just lie there and do nothing? No matter what he did, the mob was the criminal. But the law did nothing — just left us wondering why. My opponent says, “Nothing that erodes the rule of law can be moral.” But there is no rule of law in the Jim Crow South, not when negroes are denied housing, turned away from schools, hospitals — and not when we are lynched. St. Augustine said, “An unjust law is no law at all,” which means I have a right, even a duty, to resist — with violence or civil disobedience. You should pray I choose the latter.”

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fuckyeahfamousblackgirls:

Toni Morrison Takes White Supremacy To Task

Few intellectuals have waged a public battle against white supremacy and patriarchy like Toni Morrison. Morrison has both examined and challenged systems of domination throughout her intellectual life. With her novels, essays, and interviews she has taken critical looks at the interlocking systems of race and gender oppression. In this interview she is asked by PBS’s Charlie Rose what it is like for her to encounter racism. In true Morrison fashion she turns the question on its head, and places the onus for explaining racism back into the hands of White people. She asks Rose what he thinks of racism, why do Whites hold onto, and what are they going to do about it ending it. She rejects the notion that racism is simply something that Black people must grapple with, insisting, demanding, that White people also grapple with it. Fearless. Brilliant. Powerful.

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KONY 2012's funders: JP Morgan, Chase Bank and Exxon Mobil →

lonelyvagabond:

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pinealglands:

Chase Bank contributed $1 million to Invisible Children to help them produce the KONY 2012 campaign, among other programs. JP Morgan Chase is also a major investment banker of Tullow Oil. That’s right, the oil company that needs US military help to pump oil out of Uganda.

This is extremely disturbing.

For everyone who might’ve been called a conspiracy theorist when KONY 2012 first came out and swore up and down that this was a distraction to get Ugandan oil,

You officially have the right to say “I TOLD YOU SO.”

what the fuckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

big fucking surprise

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leebasays:

…And for all of our boys and men…Thank you!

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burnedshoes:

© Gordon Parks, 1963, ‘Malcolm X selling newspaper’

“If you’re not ready to die for it, take the word ‘freedom’ out of your vocabulary.”
(Malcolm X aka Malcolm Little aka El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, May 19, 1925 – Feb. 21, 1965)

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Same shit new day….

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