Black Girl Shining

Saw this from one of my FB friends

One of the BEST costumes Ive seen this halloween!

Confident, Classy, and Fully Clothed!

(via blackfashion)

Let me count the ways on how I love this video. 

I was at a Saul Williams concert in Atlanta a few years back and I was standing behind a young petit woman with an AMAZING Fro. I literally had Fro envy…little did I know a couple of years later I would see her again on my TV. Janelle Monae. #amazingtalent

fuckyeahriotgrrrlsofcolor:

“The worst thing about that kind of prejudice is that while you feel hurt and angry and all the rest of it, it feeds you self-doubt. You start thinking, perhaps I am not good enough.”

— Nina Simone

Simone for the first time openly addressed the racial inequality that was prevalent in the United States with the song “Mississippi Goddam”, her response to the murder of Medgar Evers and the bombing of a church in Birmingham, Alabama that killed four black children. The song was released as a single, and it was boycotted in certain southern states. ”Old Jim Crow”, on the same album, addressed the Jim Crow Laws.

From then on, a civil rights message was standard in Simone’s recording repertoire, becoming a part of her live performances. Simone performed and spoke at many civil rights meetings, such as at the Selma to Montgomery marches. Simone advocated violent revolution during the civil rights period, rather than Martin Luther King’s non-violent approach, and she hoped that African Americans could, by armed combat, form a separate state.

I am throughly frustrated that Zoe Saldana is playing Nina Simone. I think she is a brilliant actor and i LOVE her but the very act of picking her goes directly against the very struggles that Ms. Simone spoke of in her songs. Nina Simone’s beautiful features, dark skin, wide nose, tight curly hair, to name a few was not good enough.

Now to this day, the darkest, curliest hair is still not good enough!!?? When will be Good enough for the big screen. Nina Simone’s beautiful features are what made her HER.

… This post has just made me realize that I need to take my Arts degree and go into film. Obviously we can not trust Hollywood to tell our story.

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To Fro or not to Fro……That is the question

(via naturalbelle)

We dont need so much STUFF! I am so inspired by this woman. It reminds me of my mother who raised three girls by herself in a one bedroom apt and how she showed me what really matters. Be inspired! I love the line ”Poverty with Style”.

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AlunaGeorge

Bag lady you gon’ hurt your back…..