loving*blackness

fuckyeahdarkgirls: fuckyeahdarkgirls!

Sat, 11 May 2013 18:04:28 -0400

fuckyeahdarkgirls:

fuckyeahdarkgirls!

winefinedarkchicks: jjabramsed: Actress Danai Gurira...

Sat, 11 May 2013 17:51:50 -0400

winefinedarkchicks:

jjabramsed:

Actress Danai Gurira photographed for Emmy Magazine.

WineFineDarkChicks

ancestryinprogress: phloeticexpressions: smokinmokes: lacquera...

Sat, 11 May 2013 17:29:30 -0400

ancestryinprogress:

phloeticexpressions:

smokinmokes:

lacquerandcandy:

geekscoutcookies:

If you dont do anything else tonight. Press Play. I was laughing, singing and cheering.

PRESS PLAY.

YOU WILL NOT REGRET THIS

OMG!!!!! Thank you for posting this, it is glorious!!!

perfect couple award

this was soooo cute!!

this made my damn week(end)

BLACK PEOPLE ARE AMAZING.

britticisms: Shonda Rhimes is important. She is critical. That...

Fri, 10 May 2013 17:19:45 -0400

britticisms:

Shonda Rhimes is important. She is critical. That it has taken the mainstream media this many years to discover and talk about this speaks to the ways in which we discuss the creation of entertainment and the systems within the entertainment industry itself. The entertainment industry is male-dominanted, exclusive, and isolationary.

Shonda Rhimes – a writer, producer, and showrunner who at one time maintained three successful television shows (Grey’s Anatomy, Private Practice, Scandal) at the same time on one network – bucks this industry standard, instead creating work that is inclusive, unique, feminine and fun. These traits are not typically used to describe Important Television, but Rhimes’ rate of success over failure, fandom over derision, deserves further examination and praise.

After reading her major NYT feature and watching last night’s brilliant episode of Scandal, I couldn’t help but write an ode to Shonda Rhimes, a feminist and creative hero. Read it here.

fckyeahprettyafricans: Cape Verde fuckyeaafricans: Cape...

Wed, 08 May 2013 17:53:29 -0400

fckyeahprettyafricans:

Cape Verde

fuckyeaafricans:

Cape verde

curvesincolor: Yolanda Zama.

Wed, 08 May 2013 15:31:35 -0400

curvesincolor:

Yolanda Zama.

courtneyindepth: -back when idk…we just were-

Mon, 06 May 2013 17:00:39 -0400

courtneyindepth:

-back when idk…we just were-

"Miss someone until they come back, or until you come back, until their absence in your life becomes..."

Mon, 06 May 2013 16:15:53 -0400

“Miss someone until they come back, or until you come back, until their absence in your life becomes something to be avoided at all costs. Miss them until you don’t have to anymore, until you’re reunited in your favorite booth in your favorite restaurant ordering your favorite meal, miss them until it feels like you never left. Or miss them until you can’t anymore, until the things you miss are identified and cataloged as things and not a person, until you figure out that easy company and long talks and unblinking, all-knowing eye contact will find you again the way they found you the first time. Miss someone until you don’t.”

- Stephanie Georgopulus (via killergrape)

"Style has a profound meaning to Black Americans. If we can’t drive, we will invent walks and the..."

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:18:56 -0400

“Style has a profound meaning to Black Americans. If we can’t drive, we will invent walks and the world will envy the dexterity of our feet. If we can’t have ham, we will boil chitterlings; if we are given rotten peaches, we will make cobblers; if given scraps, we will make quilts; take away our drums, and we will clap our hands. We prove the human spirit will prevail. We will take what we have to make what we need. We need confidence in our knowledge of who we are.”

- Nikki Giovanni (via westindians)

chloebattesti: © Chloe Battesti

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 15:53:32 -0400

chloebattesti:

© Chloe Battesti

bookmania: Strand Books, New York. In 1927, Ben Bass opened...

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 18:21:10 -0400

bookmania:

Strand Books, New York. In 1927, Ben Bass opened Strand Book Store on Fourth Avenue, home of New York’s legendary Book Row. Named after the famous publishing street in London, the Strand was one of 48 bookstores on Book Row, which started in the 1890’s and ran from Union Square to Astor Place.

"Love is a verb. Love is as love does. Love is an act of will. It is the will to extend one’s self..."

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 14:54:54 -0400

“Love is a verb. Love is as love does. Love is an act of will. It is the will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth. Will implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love.”

- bell hooks (via ynannarising)

diosasalnatural: Tamisha, Diosita al Natural de Loiza, PR Foto...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 06:41:25 -0400

diosasalnatural:

Tamisha, Diosita al Natural de Loiza, PR

Foto por: Joaquin M Photography

thighs.

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:01:00 -0400

thighs.

"Grace emerges in the ebb and flow, not just the flow. The waning reveals a different blessing than..."

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 16:00:15 -0400

“Grace emerges in the ebb and flow, not just the flow. The waning reveals a different blessing than the waxing.”

- Free Will Astrology - Taurus (Week of 04.11.2013)

"I really, really like Black people. I like us when we’re making bad decisions. I like us when we’re..."

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 10:28:39 -0400

“I really, really like Black people. I like us when we’re making bad decisions. I like us when we’re listening to misogynist music. I like us when we’re paying our bills on time and we’re not. I like us when we get married and have these beautiful ceremonies and jump over brooms. And I also like us when we’re bold and brave enough to raise children on our own. I like the men who write to me from prison and, you know, use all their jailhouse lingo and tell me about the political world. I also like the, you know, little conservative girls who sit in my class and argue with me sort of the Black conservative line. I’m engaged by us. I’m fascinated by us. I’m always trying to figure out what would make life for Black people as equal, as democratic, as real, and as possible for the full capacity of human fulfillment as it is for other people. I think that Black people are the American promise.”

- - Dr. Melissa Harris-Perry (via theraceproblem)

“it’s the black upon each other that we love so much.” - common

(via jalylah)

"There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death."

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 18:24:15 -0400

“There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death.”

- real ass quotes from the bible.

pangeasgardenproject: GreenRose & FlowerChild are...

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 18:22:17 -0400

pangeasgardenproject:

GreenRose & FlowerChild are earthSistas.

Are you?

catchstds: The First Lady of the United States, Michelle...

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 07:28:11 -0400

catchstds:

The First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, for Vogue US April 2013

extravaganza eleganza.

Black people, who make up 22% of the poor, receive 14% of government benefits. White people, who make up 42% of the poor, receive 69% of government benefits.

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:53:39 -0400

Black people, who make up 22% of the poor, receive 14% of government benefits. White people, who make up 42% of the poor, receive 69% of government benefits.:

so-treu:

notesonascandal:

theraceproblem:

racismschool:

Just so we’re all clear on what we just read. Black people make up 22% of the poor but only 14% of the government benefits. Meaning, 8% of poor Black people are not taking government benefits when they need them.

While, white people make up 42% of the poor but receive 69% of the government benefits. Meaning, there are white people who are classified as middle class who are receiving government benefits.

…but welfare queens and stuff.

LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT!

Black people make up 22% of the poor BUT only 14% of the government benefits.

White people make up 42% of the poor BUT receive 69% of the government benefits.

This needs to go viral.

This is essential piece of information revealing racial bias AGAINST Black people in receiving government benefits.

Never again do I want to hear about White people living in poverty.

Never again do I want to hear about Black people living on government benefits.

Reblog this. Over and over again. POST IT ON EVERY SOCIAL MEDIA SITE WHERE YOU HAVE AN ACCOUNT.

and then once you take into account how poverty is feminized…….