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Brand New 100% Genuine Leather, 100% Shearling lined, handmade biker coat. Sz XL (14-16)

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I am always a huge support of natural products especially body care because it is hard to find. I have studied natural medicine to learn the basics in healing herbs. This bar soap includes herbs like calendula which helps fight bacteria and other herbs to balance the pH. Check out this #yonibar ladies!  #naturalbodycare #bodypH #naturalsoap 

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Photos of women of color from the Victorian era are hard to come by.

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The blueprint.

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Soukous(French) means to shake. Is a genre of dance from the Congo Basin.

Has influenced many African genres of music like palm wine,high life,taarab, and makossa.

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Nisaa Pouncey by Renell Medrano for Fenty 2019

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Erykah Badu- Apple Tree

I’d like to dedicate this to all of the Creator’s righteous children. I have some food in my bag for you. Not that edible food – the food you eat? No. I have some food for thought. Since knowledge is infinite it has infinitely fell on me. So umm…

It was a stormy night you know the kind where the lightning strike and I was hangin’ out wit some of my “artsy” friends ooh wee ooh wee oooh The night was long the night went on people coolin’ out until the break of dawn incense was burnin’ so I’m feelin right – ah'ight

See I picks my friends like I pick my fruit & Ganny told me that when I was only a youth I don’t go ‘round trying to be what I’m not I don’t waste my time trying ta get what you got I work at pleasin’ me cause I can’t please you and that’s why I do what I do My soul flies free like a willow tree doo wee doo wee do wee

And if you don’t want to be down with me You don’t want to pick from my appletree And if you don’t want to be down with me Then you don’t want to pick from my appletree And if you don’t want to be down with me Then you don’t want to pick from my appletree And if you don’t want to be down with me You just don’t want to be down

I have a ho and I take it everywhere I go Cause I’m planting seeds so I reaps What I sow – ya know Oh on & on & on & on my cipher keeps movin’ like a rollin’ stone I can’t control the soul flowin’ in me ooh wee

See I picks my friends like I pick my fruit & Ganny told me that when I was only a youth I don’t walk around trying to be what I’m not I don’t waste my time trying ta get what you got I work at pleasin’ me cause I can’t please you and that’s why I do what I do My soul flies free like a willow tree doo wee doo wee do wee

And if you don’t want to be down with me, You don’t want to pick from my appletree [x3] And if you don’t want to be down with me You just don’t want to be down

Oh my my my Oh my my my Oh my my my ahh Oh my my my my my my my Ohh I picks my friends like I pick my fruit & Ganny told me that when I was only a youth I don’t walk around trying to be what I’m not I don’t waste my time trying ta get what you got I work at pleasin’ me cause I can’t please you and that’s why I do what I do My soul flies free like a willow tree doo wee doo wee do wee

And if you don’t want to be down with me You don’t want to pick from my appletree And if you don’t want to be down with me You dum dum diddy And if you don’t want to be down with me You don’t want to pick from my appletree And if you don’t want to be down with me You just don’t want to be down You just don’t want to be down Ohh you just don’t want to be down Down, down, down You just don’t want to be down Ohh You just don’t want to be down down [x15] wanna be down no oh no You just don’t want to be down no no no You just don’t want to be down

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Ten Toes Down: The Black Ballerina (2021)

A Sunday School Production.

Photography by Kreshonna Keane

This story weaves fashion, nostalgia, movement, and history to highlight just how important representation is.

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