Man, rest in power to our people that died enslaved....Rest in power to our people that never made it out of Jim Crow...Rest in power to our people that didn't make it out of the War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration. Rest in power to all our soldiers

Idk February is the it girl of the calendar. It’s short, sweet, and black. Thee perfect month if you will

Taking advantage of desperate people is actually just how exploitation works. Damn near the definition of it. They teach that at exploitation 101, first day of class.

first in my bloodline to graduate from an ivy league—Harvard— and get drafted to play professionally 🥰

Linda was minutes away from the school where she taught a special education class when ICE agents rammed their vehicles into her car while chasing a US citizen. They struck her car, and left her to bleed out without offering any type of first aid until the paramedics arrived.

That was beautifully said to her ❤️🥹

2.6.26 🤍

My mom’s older brother passed away a few years ago. He was the quiet type. Lived in the same modest house for decades. Wore old flannels. Fixed his own car. No one ever thought of him as “well off.” After he died, we learned he had been buying small life insurance policies over

About me. You will name the thing or there’s nothing to discuss.

Instantly diminished my desire to watch this new season.

I really enjoy food/cooking content but I HATE watching people eat.

Tisha need a curtain bang or something.

In 1970, if a woman arrived at an emergency room after being raped, the staff moved fast. They cut away her clothing. They washed blood from her skin. They cleaned her wounds, combed debris from her hair, sutured, swabbed, stabilized. They saved her life. And in the same

A friend of mine lost her dad . She called me in the middle of the night her voice was steady, no cracks, no tears. On the burial day, she was the strongest person there. She literally smiled, welcomed guests, even ate like nothing happened. few months later, she fell into a

Think I need to go even shorter with my pixie.

While I understand the sentiment, that unfortunately is not how grief works in my experience. You are simply not in control. It takes hold of you when it’s ready and not a moment sooner.

Sidney Poitier’s “slap heard ‘round the world” of a plantation owner wasn’t in the orig script. He wouldn’t do the film w/out it. He added it to his contract so it cldnt be cut. Dir. told him to do it fast, as natural reaction. Sidney replied “don’t worry. It’ll be powerful.”

White people can’t even bring themselves to say excuse me when they brush past you in a public place so that tracks.

Nashville, Tennessee, 1930. Vivien Thomas was born into the Jim Crow South. He was Black in a world that told him what he could and could not become. He wanted to be a doctor. He worked as a carpenter and saved every dollar to attend the Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial