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Violent Relationships with Dr. Leelia Franck

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SOLANGE - DON’T TOUCH MY HAIR (OFFICIAL VIDEO) solangeknowlesmusic

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2015: A Year in #BlackExcellence

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Last week, Queen Elizabeth II said she thought that gay marriage was absolutely “wonderful.” Meanwhile, Phyll Opoku-Gyimah — an LGBT activist in the U.K. best known for founding U.K. Black Pride — was one of 1,200 artists, activists, and other notables listed in the Queens New Year’s Honors List.

Opoku-Gyimah, who also served as a Rainbow List judge and Stonewall Trustee, was happy to be noticed. But it’s complicated.

As she told the U.K.’s Diva magazine:

“If you’re a member of a minority – or multiple minorities – it’s important to be visible as a role model for others [and] for your successes to be seen. An honor is a very public statement that the establishment has decided that you, and what you do, are valued by the wider society. You’ve worked hard, and they’ve actually noticed.”

However, inclusion on the list comes with an MBE, which makes her known as a Member of the British Empire. And she has a problem with that:

“…Member of the British Empire? I don’t believe in empire. I don’t believe in, and actively resist, colonialism and its toxic and enduring legacy in the Commonwealth, where – among many other injustices – LGBTQI people are still being persecuted, tortured and even killed because of sodomy laws, including in Ghana, where I am from, that were put in place by British imperialists. I’m honored and grateful, but I have to say no thank you.”

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Happy late birthday to the incredibly influential revolutionary, writer & scholar Angela Davis, born on January 26, 1944.

Here’s my favorite Angela Davis interview in California State Prison in 1972 from The Black Power Mixtape:

“When someone asks me about violence, I just find it incredible, because what it means is that the person who’s asking that question has absolutely no idea what black people have gone through, what black people have experienced in this country, since the time the first black person was kidnapped from the shores of Africa.”

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On March 5th, 1945, Lena Baker, a maid, mother of three and former cotton-picker, was the first woman to be executed in the state of Georgia. She was wrongly convicted for killing her white employer, Ernest Knight, after he held her captive for days and threatened to kill her if she went back home to her family. Knight promised to kill Lena Baker with an iron bar. She took his gun in self defense and shot Knight. She immediately reported the incident to the authorities and told them exactly what happened and how she shot him in self defense. She was charged with Capital Murder at trial by an all-white male jury. Baker was the only woman executed by electrocution in Georgia. 60 years later in 2005, Baker was granted an unconditional pardon by the state of Georgia. 

Don’t forget Lena Baker!! She’s just like all of the innocent black lives lost today and desired to be forgotten and thrown away.

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happy 100th birthday, billie holiday // april 7, 1915 - july 17, 1959 // “no two people on earth are alike, and it’s got to be that way in music or it isn’t music.”

“Behind me, Billie was on her last song. I picked up the refrain, humming a few bars. Her voice sounded different to me now. Beneath the layers of hurt, beneath the ragged laughter, I heard a willingness to endure. Endure - and make music that wasn’t there before.“ President Barack Obama "With few exceptions, every major pop singer in the US during her generation has been touched in some way by her genius. It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me. Lady Day is unquestionably the most important influence on American popular singing…" Frank Sinatra "Once, when I was playing at the Apollo, Billie Holiday was working a block away at the Harlem Opera House. Some of us went over between shows to catch her, and afterwards we went backstage. I did something then, and I still don’t know if it was the right thing to do - I asked for her autograph.” Ella Fitzgerald “If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it’s Billie Holiday." Barbra Streisand "I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that’s cool. Let’s look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand." Erykah Badu "Billie Holiday….she is so subtle, she can milk you with two notes. She can go no farther than from a to b, and she can make you feel like she told you the whole universe…" Janis Joplin "My great hero is Billie Holiday." Tim Curry

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Direct carcinogens (directly cause cancer)

Butyl Benzyphthalate

Butylated Hydroxyanisole (BHA)

Butylated Hydroxytoluene (BHT)

“Coal Tar Dyes” (and lakes) D & C Red 2, 3, 4, 8, 10, 17, 19 & 33, Green 5, Orange 17, FD & C Blue 1, 2 & 4, Green 3, Red 4 & 40, Yellow 5 & 6

Crystalline Silica

Diaminophenol

Diethanolamine (DEA)

Doictyl Adipate

Disperse Blue 1, Disperse Yellow 3 (colourants)

Fluoride

Formaldehyde

Glutaral

Hydroquinone

Methylene Chloride

Methylisothiazolinone and Methylchloroisothiazolinone

Nitrophenylenediaminep-Phenylenediamine (following oxidation)

Phenyl-p-phenylenediamine

Saccharin

Talc (only in loose form, particularly around genitalia)

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What exactly is "pro-black"? Why not pro-equality, or pro-ethnic pride specifically?

Because I’m not “ethnic”, I’m black!

Every race of people have anti-blackness in their culture

(btw “3abeed”  means “nigger”)

Every race is guilty of stealing the black woman’s features while calling her ghetto for it.

Every race is guilty of stealing black culture and making it “trendy” but if we love our culture we’re disrespected.

Pro-equalty? Where was that bull shit when this was happening?

or this?

or this?

this?

where?

I’m still looking

where is pro-equality?

I don’t see it

Pro-equality?

Where you at?

I can’t see it

Where are these people who are “pro-equality”? White people don’t need equality cause they control the system! 

Before I’m a woman, I’M BLACK!

Before I’m queer, I’M BLACK!

My race will always come first the rest of my life!

Who’s here to fight for black people other than black people. Every race shits on us and then expects us to defend them. You can’t treat someone like shit and then expect them to be cool with you later, that’s not logical! Black people have band together sense we came to this shitty country but yet we have to fight for everyone? 

Yes, I will stand up for other race but because I am black, I WILL ALWAYS STAND UP FOR BLACK PEOPLE FIRST!

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1,200 aboriginal Canadian women have gone missing over the past 30 years. Hashtag asks #AmINext?

On Aug. 17, Winnipeg police pulled the body of 15-year-old Tina Fontaine out of the Red River near Alexander Docks.

The scope of the tragedy prompted Holly Jarret of Hamilton, Ont. — cousin to Loretta Saunders, an indigenous woman who was murdered in February at age 26 — to launch the #AmINext hashtag earlier this month.

So, what’s being done about it? | Follow micdotcom

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A Different World, 1991

But what’s crazy is that it’s really not a different world at all. Many of us are still dealing with the same problems our parents dealt with over twenty years ago. And this is why we still need shows like this; because they really spoke the truth.

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wait? what???

20 years in prison after having a miscarriage

On Monday an Indiana court sentenced Purvi Patel, a 33-year-old who says she suffered a miscarriage in 2013, to 20 years in prison, making her the first woman in America to be convicted of feticide. The courts essentially used laws meant to protect women against her.

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Haha 

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Dark Skin Dude: Dark skin bitches can’t talk to me! i can’t be seen with no dark skin bitches that’s embarrassing.

His momma:

His Auntie:

His sister: