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I became a teacher to avenge my junior year of high school yearbook photo (at Light House)

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I'm not even kidding. We won. #tfark (at Interstate Park)

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“Sad thing is, you can still love someone and be wrong for them.”

–Elvis Presley

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not many people have an idol as true and unique as you. not many people can say their idol paved the way for the artist of tomorrow to follow their dreams. not many people can call their idol a king and a queen. my idol is the greatest to ever live. my idol is humble and unselfish. a perfectionist at work and always striving for more but outside of work - in her own words she’s a “cornball” defending her to the death that’s our job as the beyhive we will support you in everything you do. after all there is no other like you.

HAPPY 32ND BIRTHDAY BEYONCÉ - WE LOVE YOU!!

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UNDAUNTED:  RARE AND CLASSIC PHOTOS OF MLK AND THE FREEDOM RIDERS, 1961

It’s mid-spring, 1961.  In the kitchen of a safe house in Montgomery, Ala., Martin Luther King Jr. is tense.  In the house with the 32-year-old civil rights leader are 17 students — fresh-faced college kids who, moved by King’s message of racial equality, are literally putting their lives at risk. These are the groundbreaking practitioners of nonviolent civil disobedience known as the Freedom Riders, and over the past two harrowing weeks, as they’ve traveled across the state on integrated buses, their numbers have diminished at every stop in the face of arrests, mob beatings — even fire-bombings.

Right there along with the riders, capturing the mood of the movement as it swung between exhilarated and exhausted, thrilled and terrified, was 26-year-old LIFE photographer Paul Schutzer, who covered the landmark Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom march and rally in Washington, D.C., four years earlier and witnessed firsthand the courage and determination Dr. King inspired in his followers. (Filed along with Schutzer’s Pilgrimage photos in LIFE’s archives are notes from the magazine’s Washington bureau chief, Henry Suydam Jr., citing the energy and excitement swirling around King even then: “At the end of the ceremonies, a couple of hundred people pressed feverishly on Reverend King — seeking pictures, autographs, handshakes, or just a close look. The jam got so heavy that he had to be escorted to safety by police.”)

Here, five decades after the Freedom Riders put their lives on the line for dignity and equal rights, LIFE.com presents photos — most of which never ran in LIFE — made by Schutzer during that heady era in American history. Here are images charting a pivotal moment in the historic journey of Dr. King himself and in the nation-changing movement he led, from the monuments of Washington to the highways, rural roads, churches and bus depots of the Deep South.

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Louisville Mural by Bryan Todd and Kirby Stafford

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Rest in Paradise: John Vietnam | JVN 

Probably one of the most gorgeous things to grace my tumblr. Spent my weekend at the University of Madison-Wisconsin honoring/celebrating the life of a fallen friend. I spent a lot of time at this momentum, just kind of standing there and staring off at the lake.

It doesn’t feel like it’s been a year.

But there was a lot of love there during the events in honor of the brother John, which is always lovely. Word.

This is how we chill from 93’ till.

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wait, How Justin Timberlake get a Michael Jackson award after he the one who pulled the man’s little sister’s titty out?

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Please let me keep this memory, just this one.

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I still love the people I’ve loved, even if I cross the street to avoid them.

Uma Thurman (via zebracasserole)

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“Dude, you have no idea how much it sucks to have to hear people you don’t even know constantly yelling stuff about your ex-girlfriend when you’re just trying to forget about it. Because the way I loved Britney was like nothing ever.”