We can all agree that black women are seldom given credit where credit is due. Watch this interview with the founder and activist Tarana Burke, who started the campaign about a decade ago. In this conversation we also hear from Alicia Garza, co-founder of Black Lives Matter, and Soraya Chemaly, a journalist who covers the intersection … Continue reading
This video enlightens us on the effects lynching had on families who’s members were lynched. Learn more at https://goo.gl/8LPizP #SlaveryEvolved https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fequaljusticeinitiative%2Fvideos%2F10155095069500845%2F&show_text=0&width=560 Source Equal Justice Initiative Continue reading
![Why Black Lives [Don’t] Matter In Africa](https://mygirlsquad.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/c96c2e1df817ca886225cc7cfbc4b89f.jpg?w=290&h=290&crop=1 "Why Black Lives [Don’t] Matter In Africa")
Five years after the revolution, Tunisia’s black minority has yet to experience the freedoms enjoyed by other citizens. https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FAJPeopleAndPower%2Fvideos%2F1377600742286094%2F&show_text=0&width=560 Video Source Aljazeera Facebook Continue reading
You can never be too bold, too ambitious or apologetic for who you are and what your culture is. What makes you proud to be who you are? https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FtheRoot%2Fvideos%2F10158187686675231%2F&show_text=0&width=560 Source The Root Facebook Continue reading
In a world where people of color are often forgotten disrespected and misrepresented, here’s what Alicia Garza shares on what you can do to keep up the fight. Video Source Fusion Youtube Continue reading
#Black lives matter #BlackConsciousness #Black Liberation #(You add yours) There are many slogans and hashtags similar to these that have become so popular and sharply penetrating deep inside the veins to those who choose to use them. Have you ever stopped to think, Who uses these hashtags? Is it people who really want to use … Continue reading
To put this in perspective, MIC revealed how you could get killed in America – if you are black. Watch Below: Video source https://www.facebook.com/ Continue reading
We Cannot Unite. Before I begin, let it be known that I am not part of the “BeyHive” [it’s ridiculous that this needs to be stated to make a point about Beyonce.] However, I feel it necessary to co-sign on the issue and disagree with the disgruntled women of color and their concerns towards the … Continue reading
They touch our hair without permission; they ask ignorant questions at the most inappropriate times, accuse us of being ghetto because we wear hoop earrings and can twerk (this is before copying us and saying that they only appreciated our culture) and they call our sons thugs because they like rap music. They then have … Continue reading
Here is a great memoir of poverty, ambition, pain, the well know talk show host Tavis Smiley describes growing up in a white community in Indiana and he describes all the things that affected his life and how he overcame the ills of society. He grew up in a very large family in a trailer park in Indiana where … Continue reading
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