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5 ways the presence of melanin turns you into a god

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Black Men in Love

Below are quoted about love 🤎🤎🤎

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“Unconditional love will have the final word in reality” - MLK Jr

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“I am grateful to have been loved, to be loved now and to be able to love.” - Maya Angelou

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“Finding love within yourself is truly an act of God. Love is about accepting everything about yourself.” - Ntozake Shange

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“I have learned not to worry about love, but to honor its coming with all my heart.” - Alice Walker

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“Don’t ever think I fell for you or fell over you. I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it.” - Toni Morrison

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“Together we glow brighter than the sun and moon combined, we are love.” - Sanjo Jendayi

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“Being in love with someone will make you come out of your comfort zone.” - Zoe’s Neale Hurston

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“We can’t have a war between Black men and Black women because no one can be free if one-half of the mind of the people is tied up in conflict. It’s going to have to be both is us or none of us.” - Dr. John Henrik Clarke

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“Love takes off the masks we fear we cannot live without and know we can not live within.” - James Baldwin

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“To truly love we must learn to mix various ingredients — care, affection, recognition, commitment, and trust, as well as honest and open communication.” - bell hooks

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What’s your favorite quote about love? Share it in the comments!

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50 Books Every Black Person Should Read...

Black Masculinity and the Cinema of Policing by Jared Sexton (get the book)

Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity by E. Patrick Johnson (get the book)

Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America by Melissa V. Harris-Perry (get the book)

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin (get the book)

The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America by Jonathan Kozol (get the book)

Seize The Time by Bobby Seale (get the book)

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington (get the book)

Dirty Little Secrets About Black History : Its Heroes & Other Troublemakers by Claud Anderson (get the book)

They Came Before Columbus by Dr. Ivan Van Sertima (get the book)

Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (get the book)

The Miseducation of the Negro by Dr. Carter G. Woodson (get the book)

Precolonial Black Africa by Cheikh Anta Diop (get the book)

Black Skin White Mask by Frantz Fanon (get the book)

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass (get the book)

Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts (get the book)

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (get the book)

Bloods: Black Veterans of the Vietnam War by Wallace Terry (get the book)

Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City by Antero Pietila (get the book)

Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur (get the book)

Developmental Psychology of the Black Child by A N Wilson (get the book)

Black Labor, White Wealth : The Search for Power and Economic Justice by Claud Anderson (get the book)

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (get the book)

Women, Race, & Class by Angela Y. Davis (get the book)

Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: The Rise of European Capitalism by Dr. John Henrik Clarke (get the book)

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly (get the book)

The Hidden Rules of Race: Barriers to an Inclusive Economy by Andrea Flynn (get the book)

Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching by Paula J. Giddings (get the book)

The Condemnation of Blackness by Khalil Gibran Muhammad (get the book)

The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson (get the book)

Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire (get the book)

The Blueprint For Black Power by Dr. Amos Wilson (get the book)

PowerNomics : The National Plan to Empower Black America by Dr. Claud Anderson (get the book)

When Affirmative Action Was White by Ira Katznelson (get the book)

Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks (get the book)

The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan by Laurence Leamer (get the book)

The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes (get the book)

The Rise and Fall of Black Wall Street by Robin Walker (get the book)

Harlem: A Century in Images by Deborah Willis (get the book)

Slavery by Another Name by Douglas A. Blackmon (get the book)

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley (get the book)

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein (get the book)

Ain’t I a Woman by bell hooks (get the book)

For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange (get the book)

The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois (get the book)

Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior by Dr. Marimba Ani (get the book)

Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist (get the book)

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde (get the book)

The Philosophies and Teachings of Marcus Garvey by Marcus Garvey (get the book)

Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era by Ashley D. Farmer (get the book)

Soledad Brothers by George Jackson (get the book)

Happy Black History Month!

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America's Racist and Predatory Economic Schemes That Extract(ed) Wealth from Black People Lawrence Brown, PhD (@bmoredoc)

1. International slave trading—allowed by British, then American colonial and federal governments: 1619-1820 2. Domestic slave trading & human breeding—after #1 was outlawed & cotton became king: 1820-1865 3. Enslavement, forced labor, torture, rape—allowed by multiple states and the federal government: 1619-1865 4. President Andrew Johnson rescinded Sherman’s Special Order 15: 40 acres redistribution: 1865 5. Convict leasing and peonage: 1865-1960 6. Sharecropping: 1865-1970 7. Destruction of independent Black cities & economic districts via white mob violence & lynchings: 1825-1930 8. Racial zoning, racial steering, local government real estate conspiracy: 1910-present 9. Racially restrictive covenants—legally enforceable barring of Black homeownership in White areas: 1912-1948 10. Federal Housing Administration White suburban subsidization via racially restrictive covenants: 1937-1968 11. Discriminatory Federal Housing Administration & Veterans’ Administration mortgage lending: 1937-1968 12. Blockbusting and contract buying home ownership schemes due to #11: 1940-1980 13. HOLC/FHA residential security maps—the federal government sponsors redlining: 1937-present 14. Black farmland dispossession—millions of acres lost due to USDA white supremacist actions: 1940-present 15. Urban renewal aka “Negro Removal"—downtown revitalization & university/hospital expansion: 1949-1975 16. Beachfront and waterfront property dispossession: 1940-present 17. Federal Highway Administration’s construction of highways through Black communities: 1956-1975 18. Predatory finance in Black communities—check cashing, payday loans, pawn shops, rent-to-own: 1950-present 19. Mass incarceration—legal financial obligations, high bail bonds, criminal disenfranchisement: 1980-present 20. Urban land dispossession via gentrification—boosted by assistance for incoming homebuyers: 1990-present 21. HUD’s HOPE VI public housing land disposition for private developers: 1994-2007 22. Big banks’ reverse redlining—aka subprime mortgage lending: 2000-present 23. HUD’s CHOICE Neighborhoods & RAD—more land disposition, privatizing public housing: 2008-present 24. Mass school closures & private charter conversions in Black neighborhoods: 2000-present 25. The Neo-Confederate Nullification of the ACA by Supreme Court Medicaid Opt-Out & GOP: 2012-present 26. Discriminatory consumer debt collection lawsuits by banks, utilities, hospitals, debt buyers: 2000-present 27. Predatory tax sales by hedge funds & big banks—over small tax liens such as a water bill: 2000-present 28. Contemporary redlining in hypersegregated metros like Milwaukee, St. Louis, Baltimore: 2007 to present

BUT BLACK PEOPLE ARE JUST MAKING THINGS UP AND DON’T DESERVE REPARATIONS BECAUSE AMERICA DID NOTHING WRONG HUH?

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50 Books Every Black Person Should Read...

Black Masculinity and the Cinema of Policing by Jared Sexton (get the book)

Appropriating Blackness: Performance and the Politics of Authenticity by E. Patrick Johnson (get the book)

Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America by Melissa V. Harris-Perry (get the book)

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin (get the book)

The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America by Jonathan Kozol (get the book)

Seize The Time by Bobby Seale (get the book)

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington (get the book)

Dirty Little Secrets About Black History : Its Heroes & Other Troublemakers by Claud Anderson (get the book)

They Came Before Columbus by Dr. Ivan Van Sertima (get the book)

Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (get the book)

The Miseducation of the Negro by Dr. Carter G. Woodson (get the book)

Precolonial Black Africa by Cheikh Anta Diop (get the book)

Black Skin White Mask by Frantz Fanon (get the book)

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass (get the book)

Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts (get the book)

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (get the book)

Bloods: Black Veterans of the Vietnam War by Wallace Terry (get the book)

Not in My Neighborhood: How Bigotry Shaped a Great American City by Antero Pietila (get the book)

Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur (get the book)

Developmental Psychology of the Black Child by A N Wilson (get the book)

Black Labor, White Wealth : The Search for Power and Economic Justice by Claud Anderson (get the book)

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (get the book)

Women, Race, & Class by Angela Y. Davis (get the book)

Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: The Rise of European Capitalism by Dr. John Henrik Clarke (get the book)

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly (get the book)

The Hidden Rules of Race: Barriers to an Inclusive Economy by Andrea Flynn (get the book)

Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching by Paula J. Giddings (get the book)

The Condemnation of Blackness by Khalil Gibran Muhammad (get the book)

The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. Tyson (get the book)

Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire (get the book)

The Blueprint For Black Power by Dr. Amos Wilson (get the book)

PowerNomics : The National Plan to Empower Black America by Dr. Claud Anderson (get the book)

When Affirmative Action Was White by Ira Katznelson (get the book)

Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks (get the book)

The Lynching: The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan by Laurence Leamer (get the book)

The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes by Langston Hughes (get the book)

The Rise and Fall of Black Wall Street by Robin Walker (get the book)

Harlem: A Century in Images by Deborah Willis (get the book)

Slavery by Another Name by Douglas A. Blackmon (get the book)

The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley (get the book)

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein (get the book)

Ain’t I a Woman by bell hooks (get the book)

For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf by Ntozake Shange (get the book)

The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois (get the book)

Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior by Dr. Marimba Ani (get the book)

Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism by Edward E. Baptist (get the book)

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde (get the book)

The Philosophies and Teachings of Marcus Garvey by Marcus Garvey (get the book)

Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era by Ashley D. Farmer (get the book)

Soledad Brothers by George Jackson (get the book)

Happy Black History Month!

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