#black american traditions

[mymusicbias]

[alwaysbewoke]

—Did you know that Juneteenth is also celebrated in a part of Mexico? Nacimiento Mexico was once home to thousands who escaped slavery in the US. As many as 10,000 slaves followed a clandestine Southern Underground Railroad to Mexico. —To date, many Black Mexicans from the Texas area retrace a portion of the same route their African American ancestors followed in 1850 when they escaped slavery. —Descendants of slaves who escaped across the southern border observe Texas’s emancipation holiday with their own unique traditions in the village of Nacimiento. —Slave hunters would patrol the southern border for escapees, led by the Texas Rangers but the Mexican army would be there waiting for them (the slave hunters) to turn them away.

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[its-jackiemcsoup]

Almost fishnets & short black dress szn🖤⚡️

[actuallyjustabiscuit]

🥁 Introducing…🥁

🎺✨Pom-Pom the Comedy Bear!✨🎺

DON’T LET HER CUDDLY APPEARANCE FOOL YOU! THOSE CLAWS ARE NOT JUST FOR SHOW!

So I kept thinking about how everyone either draws Pomni as a cat or a dog, and then I remembered that (according to Gooseworx) her favorite food is apparently salmon so…bear! And woke up at 2 am to sketch out my vision. This is the final result! (for now)

And then I also started thinking…what if they were all circus animals! So I’m making my own little AU of sorts where the humans have all been transformed into different circus critters that are made to perform in THE AMAZING DIGITAL MENAGERIE!

I already have everyone else’s animals chosen, but this all began with Pomni so you get to see her first!

[southernmermaidsgrotto]

Tag yourself!

{made with the Ancestors and Great Spirits of the African Diaspora in mind, here's what I associate with each day of the week and the children of the diaspora born therein:

Monday's child is fair of face

Tuesday's child is full of grace

Wednesday's child is full of woe

Thursday's child has far to go

Friday's child is loving and giving

Saturday's child works hard for a living

And the child born on the Sabbath day

Is bonny and blithe, good and gay.

Monday: masters of finding new roads and moving forwards, tearing down blockages, trailblazers and warriors. Artists of all kinds, writers, poets, singers.

Tuesday: embodiment of thunderstorms, winds, omens, they're powerful conjurers with hot hands, always busy, always moving. Often times scholars, historians.

Wednesday: defenders, protectors, of humanity and nature as a whole. Warrior spirits at their core, but also great diviners and mediums.

Thursday: eloquent muses of the arts of love and war alike, great beauties who lead armies with equal charm and force. Sweetening, love and luck workings come easy to them.

Friday: personification of abundance and status. A commanding presence. Building legacy, great manifestors and conjurers, specially for work and finances.

Saturday: guardians of waters and the beyond. Community leaders, gifted healers, divine messengers. Carrying all the wisdom of the Elders and Ancestors.

Sunday: priests and priestesses that defy status quo, very old Ancestors coming back to reshape and rebirth reality. They will enter your life and purge every aspect of it.}

[dearsvdghostt]

Sun.

[newjackamericana]

African American Culture (Gullah)- Sweetgrass baskets

[lionheartapothecaryx]

In light of a tragedy involving Mystic Lipstick aka Akoya, here are few quick witch tips that are invaluable for practitioners of any skill level.

[kafkasapartment]

Saturday Night, Birmingham, Alabama, c.1940. Arthur Rothstein. Silver gelatin.

[hyperiionvii]

bird sketches

[mymusicbias]

[nickysfacts]

Black Santa Claus’s origin story!

❄️🎅🏾🎁

[ausetkmt]

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[note-a-bear]

Looks up traditional bluegrass dancing.

Sees it falls under 'clogging' but is often more accurately called 'flatfooting', which, in turn, seems to be a strain of dance that originated as 'buck dance'...

mfw 🤨

Look into it and, naturally 'buck dance' is a term associated with minstrelsy and early American entertainment. 😑😑

[nero-neptune]

i'm afraid that there's Never gonna be a concentrated effort to get the nazis off of tumbler dot com, bc no one knows what a nazi (or neo-nazi, for that matter) actually is! additionally, no one knows what nazi rhetoric even is, not when it's passes the "Uses Progressive Language" test, bc using the Good Words™ is all you need to let extremely racist messages fly under the nazi-detecting radar. god forbid anyone look in the mirror and ask "am I the bad guy??" and get their shit together.

this website: "hey staff !! >:((( when are you gonna get rid of all the nazis?!?!"

also this website: *makes the 358th conspiratorial post that Strongly Suggests that bloodthirsty jews (with dual loyalty, Of Course) control the media. this post has over 20k notes*

[butterflytrampstamp]

patchwork bodysuit by @ dancrowetattoo