Well, now we can say we survived an earthquake.

Designer Joe Doucet invented a flat wind turbine that can be incorporated into walls, rather than harnessing the wind with huge blades suspended on tall towers. [read more: buff.ly/3jmmP0j]

❄️❄️❄️ snow-day in jhb ⛄️

flooding us w/ #Barbie and #Oppenheimer as exciting and progressive cultural phenomenon, we are seeing how colonial white supremacy is legitimized before our very eyes thru all the frames: science, feminism, ethics, aesthetics...its not even soft power anymore, just regular power

‘I come here from a country whose seven million children, women, and men refuse to die from ignorance, hunger, and thirst any longer. My aspiration is to speak on behalf of the disinherited of the world. And to state the reasons for our revolt.’ – Thomas Sankara, 1984

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Remembering a beautiful and inspirational human being

I binged this today and wow. LOVE LOVE LOVE. A masterpiece.

SALUTE TO 50 YEARS OF HIP HOP CULTURE!!! SO BLESSED TO BE A PART OF THIS ARTFORM!!! Salute to all of the Pioneers that opened the door for us!!!

#remembermarikana 🌿🙏🏽

Here is Patrice Lumumba, the first Prime Minister of the Congo who was executed in a firing squad by Belgium/USA allies because he tried to protect his country’s minerals. Shortly before execution, His last words were: “Neither brutality, cruelty or torture will ever bring me to

This week...

110 years ago, on this day in 1913, founder of the Bantu Women’s League and the first South African woman to obtain a degree, Charlotte Maxeke led women in an anti-pass campaign in Bloemfontein.

#Usonga

Israel isn’t “at war” It is an occupier barbarically ruling over millions of Palestinians The timeline doesn’t begin when an Israeli feels an ounce of violence that Palestinians have been forced to endure for the last 75 years

Israel must lift the siege of Gaza, restore the electricity and water supply and allow humanitarian access. Its forces must abide by international humanitarian law and take all feasible precautions to protect civilians and refrain from indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks.

I was born in that hospital. My sister was born in that hospital. My grandfather worked in that hospital. There was a tennis court and a church in that hospital. Al Ahli hospital was a community. It held memories, it told stories, it treated the most destitute in Gaza.

Macron has banned pro-Palestine demonstrations in France. So many people came to demonstrate in Paris tonight that Macron’s police were forced to leave.