#African Children

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Capturing a moment in African children's young lives!

In a calm and stunning way by! ... fotografia de criancas

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Kids Share Films

Storytelling and the Arts for Social Change Below are short films and a music video created by Wari Om & Matt Dec for Kids Share Workshops. Wari filmed and directed Sophie Beem’s “GLOW,” among the other videos produced during a Kids Share Zambia workshop celebration. GLOW was created for the children and community working with Kids Share Zambia and was shared during our final celebration when…

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Swalidubclub riddim 2023 feat Jah franco, Ansone, Jah bless, Reggie amma, simon splinta, John Marcus is now live on most plateform

African children-Jah Franco-France

The creator and the creation -AnsOne-Holland

Only the fitess-John Marcus-Dominica

Trodding the road-Jah bless-Jamaica

World a go end -reggie amma- Jamaica

Daily Psalms -simon splinta- Jamaica

Now available original/dub 12 tracks

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“I remember an incident from my own childhood, when a very close friend of mine and I, we were walking down the street. We were discussing whether God existed. And she said he did not. And I said he did. But then she said she had proof. She said, ‘I had been praying for two years for blue eyes, and he never gave me any.’ So, I just remember turning around and looking at her. She was very, very Black. And she was very, very, very, very beautiful. How painful. Can you imagine that kind of pain? About that, about color? So, I wanted to say you know, this kind of racism hurts. This is not lynchings, and murders, and drownings. This is interior pain. So deep. For an 11 year-old girl to believe that if she only had some characteristic of the white world, she would be okay. [Black girls] surrendered completely to the master narrative. I mean the whole notion of what is ugliness, what is worthlessness. She got it from her family, she got it from school, she got it from the movies — she got it everywhere; it’s white male life. The master narrative is whatever ideological script that is being imposed by the people in authority on everybody else. The master fiction, history, it has a certain point of view. So, when these little girls see that the most prized gift that they can get at Christmastime is this little white doll, that’s the master narrative speaking: “This is beautiful. This is lovely, and you’re not it.”

Toni Morrison on what inspired her to write her first novel, The Bluest Eye.

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we must be in the pits of hell... listen to this. this is real

"Congo needs your attention and not your attention like social media attention. Congo needs you to understand and hear the stories of these people and feel it" from The Future of Congo, 22/May/2024:

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Malcom X And Muhammad Ali with Malcolm’s Daughters

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Hi! It seems like fireworks and firecrackers were a very common item in Santa letters, to the extent that they’re often thrown in at the end along with fruit like a ‘default’ Santa gift. If you know, why and when did fireworks stop being a go-to present for kids to ask from Santa?

This is actually something I keep meaning to dig into more.

It was almost exclusively a Southern practice (particularly in the Deep South), but was so universal there that it's honestly more unusual for Southern kids to NOT ask for fireworks than to ask for them. I'm not sure if there were cultural aspects to this or was just because it makes more sense to give them where it's actually warm enough to shoot them off.

They seem to have been given primarily as a stocking-stuffers, as they are almost always listed alongside the standard fruit, nuts and candy.

From what I've seen, requests for fireworks dropped off sharply in the early 60s, though I as of yet haven't found any convincing reason as to why.

That's a bit early to coincide with the general shift away from little boys asking for firearms, which seems (from my observations at least) to be largely correlated with the advent of video games in the 70s and 80s.

It's possible it may have been a natural result of child safety standards evolving beyond the 'sure, give your six-year-old explosives, what's the worst that could happen?' that seems to have been the dominant attitude for the first half of the 20th century.

If anyone from the South has any insight on this I'd love to hear it.

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Black mothers

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Storytelling and the Arts for Social Change Kids Share Volunteers and contracted professionals direct the workshops. We work with other nonprofit organizations that support youth empowerment, positively impacting lives and communities around the world. Some of the locations we reach are remote and lack modern amenities. We feel that traditional paperback books, films, and social media are…

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Winslow Homer (1836-1910) "Dressing for the Carnival" (1877) Oil on canvas Realism Located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York, United States In this Reconstruction-era painting, Homer evokes the dislocation and endurance of African American culture that was a legacy of slavery. The central figure represents a character from a Christmas celebration known as Jonkonnu, once observed by enslaved people in North Carolina and, possibly, eastern Virginia. Rooted in the culture of the British West Indies, the festival blended African and European traditions. After the Civil War, aspects of Jonkonnu were incorporated into Independence Day events; the painting’s original title was Sketch—4th of July in Virginia. The theme of independence was particularly relevant in 1877, when emancipated Black Americans in the South saw an end to their brief experience of full civil rights with the final withdrawal of federal troops.

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2 year old solving long division and algebra. @AGT@kellyclarksonshow #vi...

The American educational system is failing our Black Indigenous Children compared to the Black African Children. Watch the video and see for yourself.

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Portrait of Daniel, Singleton and Imogene Cole, children of soprano Madame Maggie Porter-Cole. Printed on front: "Millard, 224 & 226 Woodward Ave., Detroit." Handwritten on back: "Cole, Maggie Porter. Daniel, Singleton and Imogene Cole, children of Mrs. Maggie L. Porter-Cole."

E. Azalia Hackley Collection of African Americans in the Performing Arts, Detroit Public Library

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Filmmaker & Executive Producer Karis Jagger discussing Season 2 of the Peabody Award-winning docuseries High on the Hog, at the Netflix FYSEE space in Los Angeles (2024).