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Kristiana In Focus

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"I gotta find peace of mind" Lauryn Hill live at MTV Unplugged N°2.0

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The immigrants I know have loud voices, unmodulated to American tones even after years away from the village where they called their friendships out across the fields. I have not been able to stop my mother’s screams in public libraries or over telephones.

The Woman Warrior (via ceci-commonplace)

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In the opening chapter of his book The Souls of Black Folk, Du Bois describes double consciousness as follows:

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his two-ness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife — this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost. He does not wish to Africanize America, for America has too much to teach the world and Africa. He wouldn't bleach his Negro blood in a flood of white Americanism, for he knows that Negro blood has a message for the world. He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American without being cursed and spit upon by his fellows, without having the doors of opportunity closed roughly in his face.”

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as a public service, i’m taking it upon myself to formulate what amounts to a basic, introductory “course” on feminist theory. as anyone who has studied it knows, feminist theory encompasses a wide range of subject matters and approaches, and it can be very difficult to locate a useful starting...

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Today I believe in the possibility of love; that is why I endeavor to trace its imperfections, its perversions

— Frantz Fanon (Black Skin, White Masks)

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Nina & Lisa

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huge shouts and respect to this group of young warrior scholars at ithaca college who just advocated for and won the creation of an asian american studies minor! 👏💪🙏👍👲👳😎 #ithacacollege #cscre (at Ithaca College, NY)

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You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

James Baldwin (via jacoblnoble)

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Yuri Kochiyama is a Japanese American human rights activist, but often remembered for her work in The Black Panther Party. In 1960, Kochiyama and her spouse moved to Harlem in New York City and joined the Harlem Parents Committee. She became acquainted with Malcolm X and was a member of his Organization of Afro-American Unity. She was also present at Malcolm X’s assassination on February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, and held him in her arms as he lay dying. In 1977, Kochiyama joined the group of Puerto Ricans that took over the Statue of Liberty to draw attention to the struggle for Puerto Rican independence. Over the years, Kochiyama has dedicated herself to various causes, such as the rights of political prisoners, freeing Mumia Abu-Jamal, nuclear disarmament, and reparations to Japanese Americans who were interned during the war. In 2005, Kochiyama was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize through the “1,000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005” project.

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Feminism is worthless without intersectionality and inclusion.

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Revolutionary activist Angela Davis and revolutionary author Jean Genet, 1971.

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Photograph (1972)

Angela Davis // Black Power Mixtape 1967 - 1975

Political activist Angela Davis being interviewed by a Swedish journalist in Black Power Mixtape 1967 - 1975, a documentary chronicling the key years of Black Power.

http://www.blackpowermixtape.com

Photo Source: IMDB.com

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…no-frills, candid feature documentary…

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Yumi Sakugawa’s comic on Claudia Kishi at Sadie magazine is the best thing ever. Read “My Asian-American Female Role Model Of The ’90s” here.