December 2011
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My husband was shocked as he scrolled down my Tumblr dash. RomeIsBuring had just posted several niiiiiiiiice pictures. ”So, are you on #TeamBigDick now?” my husband asked, as he read one of the tags.
“Yep!!! I’ve been on that team for yeeeeeears! Yo ass put me on it, the first time we made love,” I smiled as I spoke to him. hehehe
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CUBA: A Foreigners' Thoughts on Race and Politics
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Cuba and I have a special relationship. I first came to the island with my friend Sarah in April 2011, encouraged after meeting two Cuban brothers in Uganda. Their father had immigrated to my country of birth as an economic migrant and his sons had followed to study. They showed me multimedia memories of home sent by their mother who had since relocated to Venezuela. We used...
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Please shut up!
“You’re beautiful even if you’re dark skinned.”
“It doesn’t matter if you’re dark skinned, we’re all beautiful.”
Or ”Let me say some shit to make it seem like being dark skinned is just as good as being lighter so that you see that you can be beautiful even if your skin color is darker than mine.”
Please shut...
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“You let the man maneuver you into thinking that it’s wrong to fight him when...”
– Malcolm X (via howbigisyourworld)
“Usually the person that FUCKS the best is the WORST for you…”
– Honest Soul (via afatgirlsblues)
Naaaaaaaw!! Hasn’t been my experience. BUT, if you talk to your lover about what you like when having sex, he can become THE best ever. (my two cents)
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Arizona bans history books — RT →
cultureofresistance:
rtamerica:
A judge in Arizona has decided to make a Mexican American history program taught in the Tucson Unified School District just that: history. According to Judge Lewis D Kowal, the program is in violation of state law.
The legislation in question went on the books a year ago and says that Arizona schools can’t offer studies designed for students of any particular...
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Kickstarter - An Oversimplification of Her Beauty →
I contributed. Your turn. Click the link.
Black Cinema lives!
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Watchblackloveisabeautifulthing:
Help support An Oversimplification of Her Beauty and get it to the 2012 Sundance Film Festival by backing the team on kickstarter
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“The clitoris is pure in purpose. It is the only organ in the body designed...”
– Natalie Angier, Woman: An Intimate Geography (via dr-clear-heels)
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Watchjhendi:
RITA INDIANA-DA PA LO DO
Electro merengue diva Rita Indiana has no qualms making political statements with her art. From her songs about migration and conditions in her native Dominican Republic to her 70′s-inspired first video, “El Juidero” (“The Getaway”), where she played an assassin in the aftermath of the politically-motivated murder of a Dominican journalist, “La Montra” has...
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awesome-everyday liked your photo: novembernegro: hah. reality. Witchsistah: And…
Who did you love on Gilligan’s Island? There was something very sexy about The Professor. teeheehee
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“I guess it can’t be too often that two people can laugh and make love, too, make...”
– James Baldwin - If Beale Street Could Talk
(via curlyingenue)
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I wonder...
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theafrosistuh:
How many people are having sex tonight? I mean obviously not me because ya know. I’m right here but…just curious.
I’m not…
and well you know i never am…
My husband JUST tapped me on my ass, as I’m doin the Tumblah. I will be gettin mine tonight. Give me my present!
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fyeahblackmamas started following you
Yes!!!! This is why I love the Tumblah! Let’s continue to love, uplift and celebrate who we are. I’m a Black mama!!!
Black love.
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“If you teach that nigger how to read, there would be no keeping him. It would...”
– Frederick Douglass’s former master on why he shouldn’t be taught to read (as told in Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass)
Moral of the story: read a book.
(via daniellemertina)
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Up to 40,000 children mine gold in Mali: rights... →
fyeahafrica:
Between 20,000 and 40,000 children work in artisanal gold minesin Mali, Africa’s third-largest producer of the precious metal,Human Rights Watch said in a report Tuesday.
In a statement, HRW said that “children as young as six dig mining shafts, work underground, pull up heavy weights of ore, and carry, crush, and pan ore.”
It also said that many children “work with mercury, a toxic...
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