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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17006988928907402586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-521894010920229796.post-46045212565717405662019-03-26T07:30:00.000-07:002019-03-26T07:30:10.873-07:00ELLA BAKER <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17006988928907402586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-521894010920229796.post-52556209956525339262019-03-26T07:00:00.000-07:002019-03-26T07:00:01.572-07:00Janet Harmon Waterford Bragg: First Black Woman To Earn A Commercial Pilot's License<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #424242; font-size: 18px;"> </span><span style="color: #e69138; font-size: large;">A contemporary and colleague of Willa Brown, Janet Harmon Waterford Bragg was the first black woman to earn a commercial pilot’s license. She had to try a second time in Chicago because the examiner in Tuskegee, Alabama refused to issue a license to a “colored girl.” She was a founder and charter member of the Challenger Aero Club, which eventually led to the National Airmen’s Association of America and the Coffey School of Aeronautics.<br /> <br /> Bragg also promoted the field of aviation in the 1930s through a regular column in the Chicago Defender newspaper.<br /> Born the youngest of seven children in Georgia, Bragg moved to Illinois to live with her sister and work as a nurse after graduating from Spelman College. She decided that she wanted to learn to fly after seeing a billboard that read “Birds learn to fly. Why can’t you?” She was the only woman in a class with 24 black men at Curtiss Wright Aeronautical School in Chicago. The school was a ground school and had no means of offering flight training. She used the money she earned from working as a nurse to purchase a plane of her own and rent it out to other pilots.<br /><span style="font-family: "source sans pro" , sans-serif;"> Since black pilots were restricted from using white airports, Bragg along with several of her classmates and aviation instructors formed the Challenger Aero Club and built an airfield in the all-black town of Robbins, Illinois. In 1931, the Challenger club began an annual flyover at Chicago’s Lincoln Cemetery to honor <a href="https://blackchickrocked.blogspot.com/2019/01/the-life-of-bessie-coleman.html">Bessie Coleman</a>.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #c27ba0; font-family: "source sans pro" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">When Daisy Bates was three years old her mother was killed by three white men. Although Bates, was just a child, her biological mother’s death made an emotional and mental imprint on her. The unfortunate death forced Bates to confront racism at an early age and pushed her to dedicate her life to ending racial injustice.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">If we reduce the mystical Path ([Christian...]Kabbalistic, Taoist, etc) to nothing more then a way of becoming a more moral person, then we spit on the thousands of Sages and the millions of texts they spent their lives preparing for us. We wouldn't need all of these teachings for something so trivial to understand as building better moral and civic values, this only requires common sense.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">The Path of Illumination is not a mere process of becoming a better thin<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">ker, a more ethical person or a civic leader, these things are side effects; the Path is about revealing the spiritual worlds concealed from us, to expand awareness and connection and grow to new degree of conscious evolution beyond the mere five senses, in fact it is to reveal a new higher sense of reality entirely.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">The All is not limited, It is infinite - so don't limit yourself or your experience. Demand more, push, grow, expand.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">For those that scuff at this, and they are many, remember that their philosophies are produced by the very same limited mind that we're trying to move beyond. They have refused to Exodus from their ego thinking so now in their laziness they must also pull you down in fear and envy.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">Don't fall for this - you are eternal and life is simply a game where you can learn to expand beyond the temporal, this is the only purpose of your life - to know (experience) more with each breath without limit.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">Mark 12:30 -31</span><span style="color: #b45f06;">Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.' The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no commandment greater than these</span></blockquote>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17006988928907402586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-521894010920229796.post-71063894518377839642019-03-17T09:30:00.000-07:002019-03-17T09:30:06.024-07:00JO ANN ROBINSON AND THE BLACK WOMEN INITIATED THE MONTGOMERY BUS BOYCOTT<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #351c75; font-size: large;">...Soon after arriving in Montgomery, Robinson was verbally attacked by a public bus driver for sitting in the "whites only" section of the bus. When she became the WPC's president the following year, she made desegregating the city's buses one of the organization's top priorities.<br /> The WPC repeatedly complained to the Montgomery city leaders about unfair seating practices and abusive driver conduct. But the group's concerns were dismissed, leading Robinson to begin laying plans for a bus boycott by the city's African American community. Following Rosa Park's arrest in December 1955 for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white person, Robinson and a few associates jumped into action. They copied tens of thousands of leaflets and distributed them across the city, calling for a one-day boycott.<br /> Following the overwhelming success of the one-day boycott, Montgomery's black citizens decided to continue the campaign, establishing the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) to organize the effort and electing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as the MIA's president<span style="font-family: , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">.</span></span></span></blockquote>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17006988928907402586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-521894010920229796.post-42785122354925679732019-03-15T13:20:00.000-07:002019-03-15T13:20:16.026-07:00Ava DuVernay Presents The 25 Women Directors Who Have Helmed QUEEN SUGAR<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: large;"><b>The result has been that other groups see our stories as worth telling. HIDDEN FIGURES might not have gotten made if shows like Scandal hadn't proven a show with a black female lead couldn't capture and hold an audience for years -- maybe if Shonda Rhimes hadn't taken over an entire night of television on ABC for a few years.</b></span></span></span><br />
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<b style="background-color: white; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Ava DuVernay, Shonda Rhimes and Mara Brock Akil have all put black women in front of the camera and behind the camera. They are giving black female life to Hollywood. </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: large;">Frances E.W. Harper was a Black poet, writer, and lecturer, as well as an anti-slavery, women's rights, and temperance activist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Harper was from Baltimore, MD.,<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;"> where she attended Baltimore's Academy for Negro Youth school. There she studied Greek, Latin, and the Bible. Writing poetry as a teenager, she started her career as a writer in 1845 by publishing the poetry collection, "Forest Leaves."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Her second career, as an activist, began almost a decade later. Harper taught school for several years at Union Seminary in Ohio, and later in Pennsylvania. But in 1853, when Maryland began prohibiting free Blacks from entering its borders, Frances Ellen Harper was moved to action. The next year, moving to Philadelphia, she became active in the anti-slavery movement. Soon, Harper became one of the few Black women to go on the anti-slavery lecture circuit. She proved to be such a popular speaker that over the next six years, the Maine and Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Societies sent her throughout New England, Ohio, and New York, and as far away as Detroit and Canada.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Harper often quoted original poetry in her lectures, and consequently her reputation as a poet spread as far as her speaking tours. Her second volume of poetry, Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects, sold 10,000 copies and was then enlarged and reprinted. Harper published several more volumes of poetry and reprinted new editions of her poems many times. In the process, she became the most famous Black poet of her time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">During the next few decades, she began to focus on racial uplift, moral reform, temperance, and women's rights. Many of Harper's lectures were to women's clubs and associations, and some of her most popular speeches were on the rights and roles of women in general, and Black women in particular. Harper was also active in the temperance movement. She lectured widely on the evils of alcohol, directed the Northern United States Temperance Union, and became the first Black woman to be recognized on the Red Letter Calendar of the World Woman's Christian Temperance Union, which honored prominent temperance activists.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here again, Harper tailored her activism to reach the Black community. She directed what were then called the colored branches of the Philadelphia and Pennsylvania Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and in 1883, became national superintendent of temperance work among Blacks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Throughout all of her political activism, Frances Harper continued to write, and in the 20th century, she is best remembered as one of the earliest Black women writers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Harper's best-known work, is the 1892 novel Iola Leroy. Many reviewers called Iola Leroy the crowning effort of Harper's life. She continued writing until a few years before her death in 1911.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Harper provided a model for the best of what any 19th-century woman could be as a Black woman. In making a point of </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">writing about and speaking to other Black women, she set a high standard for a generation of Black women's activism.</span><br />
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<li style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">Spelman incorporated under Board of Trustees</li>
<li style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5; list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">Charter granted by state of Georgia</li>
<li style="line-height: 1.5; list-style-position: outside; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Henry L. Morehouse becomes first president of Board of Trustees..</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Roboto, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Read More:</span></b> <a href="https://www.spelman.edu/about-us/history-in-brief">https://www.spelman.edu/about-us/history-in-brief</a></span></span></li>
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<span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701960784313725);"> Because Atlanta would not open a black public high school until 1924, the first generation of Spelman students enrolled in courses equivalent to high school instruction. In 1887, Spelman awarded its first diplomas at this level. Two women received the school’s first baccalaureate degrees in 1901.</span><br /><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701960784313725);"> In Spelman’s first decades, a series of notoriously strict presidents, all friends of the Rockefeller family from the Northeast, required students to adhere to the standards of Victorian-era feminine propriety. Women wore hats and gloves in public, and they needed special written permission to travel off campus. Under the title “domestic training,” they learned domestic skills such as sewing, cooking, and laundry work. Two of the school’s founders, Harriet Giles and Sophia Packard, </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.7); text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">For me, the story of THE CENTRAL PARK V started with me seeing a newspaper with the headline "WOMAN RAPED IN CENTRAL PARK" lying on the lunchroom table as I arrived at work.<br /><br />The first thing I thought was "And water is wet." </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I kept on tippin' down the hallway in my pencil skirt and not-very-sensible pumps. But I doubled back. It took me about 5 to 7 seconds to realize that I'd just seen a headline, not a tiny blurb in a back section where rapes are usually reported in the newspaper.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;">When black and brown women, mostly domestics on their way to white homes on the other side of Central Park, were being gang raped their rapes were barely worth a sentence of two.<br /><br />But somehow, on that particular day, the rape of a nobody --someone with no celebrity status at all-- had made it onto the front page.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I went back to the lunch table, put my briefcase down and snatched up the news paper. I just skimmed the article. I didn't even read what happened to her, not really. I read just enough to see the word "wilding" and understand that this was now the vogue term for a gang rape involving a vicious beating. But all I was looking for was the information that I already knew was there. <br /></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The rape of a white woman is the only rape that could make the first section of a major newspaper. But it took class and status, both, to put her on the front page. So not</span><span style="font-size: large;"> only was she white, but -- as I recall-- she had a degree from a primo school if not an ivy league school and a fancy financial job to match.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just as we saw in O J Simpson case, a crime against a white woman doesn't matter a lick until the accused is black.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I promise you, if this woman had been raped and beaten just after school on a basketball court setting just to one side of at a 99% white private school, there would have been gasps of shock that it could happen in such a place. But that's would have been a major news story for a month, max. And that's only if the rich Mommy and Daddies of the "misunderstood" white teenaged gang rapists let the story get anywhere near a major newspaper</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;">There certainly wouldn't have been a NYC cop manhunt put together to find the rapist of one woman.</span> </blockquote>
<span style="font-size: large;">So let us review. There are 4 criteria that must be met for a rape to make the front page in 1980s/1990s America</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">1) white</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">2) ivy league school (or a close equivalent)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">3) making today's equivalent of 6 figures</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">4) and likely have black assailants<br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">When The Central Park V were rapidly arrested, I'd be willing to guess that 96% of us black and brown folks, living in the area at the time, knew they didn't do it. We knew the cops had randomly picked up some black and brown kids.</span><span style="font-size: large;"><br />At the same time, the white people reading the same newspapers, 95% of whom considered themselves non-racists while holding extremely racist views, looked on with glee as these boys were arrested. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And the only <i><b>initial evidence</b></i> of their guilt was that they were in the park SOMEWHERE while being black or brown. <br /><br />Non-violent, non-N-word-using racists who don't believe they are racists don't look for chains of evidence that make sense. Before the coerced confessions came they absolutely could not conceive of young black boys, as barely more than children, browbeaten and lied to, who would say almost anything, confess to just about anything for so long as the accusations will stop and they can see their parents -- after hours and hours of interrogation. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I believe they were interrogated without their parents upwards of 12 hours.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br />And white folks reading the news had no problem with this or the legitimacy of their confessions. Why? White racists see big black rapist men no matter the age or size of the black boy.<br /><br />Marmalade Maggot was living in NY at the time too. That Racist-In-Chief, currently in the White House leading the country off a cliff, took out a full page ad in major newspapers calling for these boys to be executed. Some 25 to 30 years later, when he was running for president, he refused to take his accusation back despite another man, a rapist by profession, having confessed to the crime.</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>In other words, I expect to have to work for equality without sameness in regards to race and gender both. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"><b>I raised myself up in a feminist mindset because of the failures I saw too close to home and inside my home.<br /><br />And I became an even stronger feminist, at college, when I realized how women weren't telling their own stories, their own history -- not even within black history. </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="color: magenta; font-size: medium;"><b>But there was a time when I moved away from the word "feminist" because I simply stopped thinking about it in my day to day life. And the f-word was so despised in the black community that I deliberately let the f-word drift away even further when various things came up. </b></span><b style="color: magenta;">I don't think I ever got as far as <a href="http://www.salon.com/1998/02/02/cov_si_02int/" target="_blank">denying my feminism out loud, as Toni Morrison has.</a> But I was very silent. </b></span><br />
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<b style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then Joan Morgan published a little book called "When The Chickenheads Come Home To Roost" and it brought me all the way back to my sisters for good.</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;">Aisha Tyler<br />KIMBERLE CRENSHAW (INTERSECTIONALITY SOCIOLOGIST)</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>Maria W Stewart,</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>Gabrielle Union,</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>PAULI MURRAY,</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;">Ruth Bader Ginsberg,</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"> (SUPREME COURT JUSTICE)</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;">Diane Nash,</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"> (CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER)</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;">ANNA ARNOLD HEDGEMAN, (CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER, N.O.W. FOUNDING</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"> MEMBER</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;">)</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;">Zora Neale Hurston</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;">Septima</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;"> Clarke (CIVIL RIGHTS TEACHER)<br />Aja Monet (POET, SAY</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"> HER NAME ACTIVIST)</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>Alicia Keys</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;">Shonda</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;">Rhimes</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"> (WRITER/PRODUCER BROWNING HOLLYWOOD ONE ACTOR/ACTRESS/MUSIC ROYALTY AT A TIME</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>Kerry Washington,</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>Viola Davis,</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;">Margaret Cho</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>Tracee Ellis,</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;">Gina Prince </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;">Bythewood</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"> (DIRECTOR)</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>Angela Bassett,</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>BARBARA SMITH,</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>ANNA JULIA COOPER,</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>Ferdinand Barnett</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;">Jada </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;">Pinkett</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;">-Smith,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;">IDA B WELLS</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"> (JOURNALIST, FIRST ANTI-LYNCHING RESEARCHING SOCIOLOGIST, NAACP FOUNDING MEMBER)</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;">JOAN MORGAN</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"> (“WHEN THE CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST)</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;">bell hooks</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>MELISSA HARRIS-PERRY</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>Malaya Yousafzai, </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;">Beyonce</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;">,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>Don McPherson, </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>ANGELA DAVIS,</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;">Daisy </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;">Bates</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"> (?)</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;">CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"> (WRITER)</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;">Coretta </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;">Scott-King</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"> (?)</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>DELORES C TUCKER, </b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;">Ava DuVernay (DIRECTOR - Selma, Queen Sugar)<br />India </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;">Arie</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;"> (MUSICIAN)</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;">BEVERLY BOND</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"> (BLACK GIRLS ROCK CREATOR)</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;"><br />Jessica R Williams (Daily Show Comedian) </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;">John</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"> Legend</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;">(</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;">Pop</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline;"> Music, Producer of “Underground”)</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>Eva Longoria, (Television Actor)</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>Maya Angelou,</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>AUDRE LORDE,</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>ALICE WALKER,</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>SONIA SHAH</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>HILLARY CLINTON,</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>PATRICIA HILL-COLLINS,</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;">GLORIA </span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;">STEINHEM,</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>DOROTHY PITTMAN HUGHES,<br />GLORIA ANZALDUA</b></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17006988928907402586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-521894010920229796.post-78590485905185837602019-03-08T17:54:00.000-08:002019-03-08T17:54:10.761-08:00Ava DuVernay To Direct DC Comic's NEW GODS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Ava DuVernay has lined up her directorial follow-up to Disney's <b><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A Wrinkle in Time</em>.</b></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"> The filmmaker will take on Warner Bros. and DC's <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>The New Gods</b></em>, <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Hollywood Reporter</em> has confirmed. The property is a creation of the late and legendary comic book artist Jack Kirby, co-creator of Captain America, X-Men and other iconic heroes... </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif;"> In the comics, </span><em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>The New Gods</b></em><span style="font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif;"><b> </b>is part of the so-called “<i>Fourth World Saga</i>,” a series of four interconnected comic book series written and drawn by Kirby when he arrived at DC from rival Marvel in the early 1970s. Mixing social commentary, mythology and science fiction, it sees a war between two alien planets — New Genesis and Apokolips — arrive on Earth when the ruler of the dystopian Apokolips, Darkseid, discovers that humanity holds the key to the Anti-Life Equation, which allows its user to control all living beings in existence...</span></span></span></blockquote>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17006988928907402586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-521894010920229796.post-15985975844231249352019-03-08T07:30:00.000-08:002019-03-08T07:30:05.416-08:00THE ROLE OF WHITE WOMEN IN THE AMERICAN SLAVE ECONOMY<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><b>Yeah. I want to read this book, and so should you.</b></span></div>
<br /><b><u>FROM YALE BOOKS </u></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Bridging women’s history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave-owning women were sophisticated economic actors who directly engaged in and benefited from the South’s slave market. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Because women typically inherited more slaves than land, enslaved people were often their primary source of wealth. Not only did white women often refuse to cede ownership of their slaves to their husbands, they employed management techniques that were as effective and brutal as those used by slave-owning men. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> White women actively participated in the slave market, profited from it, and used it for economic and social empowerment. By examining the economically entangled lives of enslaved people and slave-owning women, Jones-Rogers presents a narrative that forces us to rethink the economics and social conventions of slaveholding America.</span></blockquote>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17006988928907402586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-521894010920229796.post-90578077302272153332019-03-07T10:00:00.000-08:002019-03-07T14:05:39.722-08:00WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A MAN<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #783f04; font-size: x-large;"><b>This post is here because feminism wasn't supposed to free women only. It was supposed to free men too </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><b><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">Everyone has their own definition of masculinity and what it entails. I have created my personal criteria for determining what exactly makes a man masculine and the book SEASON OF LIFE only complements my ideas.</span></b> </span></blockquote>
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<b><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">I read this book about five years ago when I was still playing football and I just finished it again recently. It's one of those few books I just can't put down. It changed me...</span></b></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #741b47;">...SEASON OF LIFE is astoundingly deep and touches on heavier subjects than your typical flat football story or coming-of-age novel. This book brings up several prominent notions such as empathy playing a vital role towards resolving conflict, how to love others, and the significance and relevance of being a man built for others.</span></b> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;"><b><span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;">These life lessons, if you will, are practiced by the coaches and players of the Gilman football team, both on and off the field.</span></b> </span></blockquote>
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<b><span style="color: #b45f06; font-size: large;">That's right, loving the other men you suit up with is an important part of playing football. These lessons work both ways though; what you do in football can be applied to other areas of your life.</span></b></blockquote>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17006988928907402586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-521894010920229796.post-64890344481462610752019-03-06T10:00:00.000-08:002019-03-06T10:00:12.813-08:00Claudia Jones Is More Relevant Than Ever In The Age Of Trump<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">“</span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The Lady with the Lamp, the Statue of Liberty, stands in New York Harbour. Her back is squarely turned on the USA. It’s no wonder, considering what she would have to look upon. She would weep, if she had to face this way.”</span></b></em></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Claudia Jones wrote these words, more relevant now than ever, while incarcerated at Ellis Island in the late 1940s. As an immigrant journalist and political activist with distinctly anti-fascist, anti-imperialist views, she wouldn’t bat an eye at the current political turmoil in the U.S. Turns out Donald Trump is not the founder of political repression and xenophobia, as evidenced by how Harry Truman’s administration targeted Jones for being a leader in the Communist Party USA and an immigrant from Trinidad. In December 1955, Jones was deported from the U.S. to the United Kingdom (her native country denied her entrance) after being incarcerated four times due to her political activities and non-citizen status. She died of a heart attack nine years later, her resting place left of Karl Marx’s grave in a London cemetery...</span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /> Claudia Jones’ story is not told nearly enough, especially during Black History Month and Women’s History Month. Bernie Sanders’ flock would have us believe socialism has always been for and by white men, but Jones’ life proves that Black women have been calling for an end to capitalism in the U.S. for a long time...<br /> As a blue-collar worker who never attended college, Jones believed feminism belonged to more than just white, upper class, and/or educated women. She wrote about Black women making only half the pay of white women despite being more likely to be in the workplace. She furtherv </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">complicated this by noting that unlike white women, Black women contributed to their household as much or more than their men. Jones was one of the first to theorize that a class analysis excluding race and gender is not a liberatory one...</span></blockquote>
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<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Read More:</span></b> <a href="https://www.bgdblog.org/2017/03/claudia-jones/">https://www.bgdblog.org/2017/03/claudia-jones/ </a></blockquote>
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<b><span style="color: #cc0000;">Learn More: <a href="https://www.aaihs.org/claudia-jones-and-the-fbi-harassment-of-black-radicals/">Claudia Jones And The FBI Harassment Of Black Radicals </a></span></b> </blockquote>
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<span style="color: #0c343d;">Expressing surprise that Kelly agreed to do this interview, King asked the R&B singer which of the several accusations lobbed against him hurt the most.<br /><span style="font-family: ElizabethSerif, Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 17px; font-weight: 500;">“Oh my God. Umm—all of them, got little girls trapped in the basement… helicopters over my house trying to rescue someone that doesn’t need rescuing because they’re not in my house,” Kelly responded. “Handcuffing people, starving people. I have a harem, what you call it—a cult. I don’t even really know what a cult is. But I know I don’t have one.”</span></span></span></blockquote>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17006988928907402586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-521894010920229796.post-77538681393096706162019-03-05T12:30:00.000-08:002019-03-05T12:30:07.566-08:00BLOND HAIR DYE, WEAVES, AND POST-APOCOLYPTIC HAIR CARE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #76a5af; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: magenta;">For the record?<br /><br />The white woman's equivalent of a weave is blond hair dye.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #76a5af; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #76a5af; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">So, somebody please inform the hoteps and their minions that white women aren't wearing their natural hair either.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #76a5af; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">I realized this one day when I walked into white church late. I snuck in the back and found myself looking at the back dozens of heads, as planned. But I needed to find a white female friend of mine. The white men's hair varied. The white women's hair did not. The back of my friend's dyed blond head looked exactly the same as 100 other white women sitting in the crowd. I tried to figure out which one she was by hair length, but then this usher person started walking toward me to help me, so I had to run, duck, cover, and find a seat quick. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: #76a5af; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Needless to say, I didn't find my friend until after the service. I meant to ask her what shade they're all using. But I forgot (chickened out).</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #76a5af; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">A friend of mine, also white, told me a long time ago that most white men are raised wanting a little blond girl friend. That's why there are so many white women with blond hair running around worried about their next hair appointment when all their hair really does is hang there. They have to get those dark roots covered up regularly.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #76a5af; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">If white women could get their legs shortened so that they could all be petite too, they'd be getting the leg shortening surgery for high school graduation and waiting to ask Mommy-And-Daddy bank for the nose or boob job somewhere near the end of sophomore year in college</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #76a5af; font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">So make no mistake. If someone announces The Electromagnetic Pulse will be set off by another country to wipe out all our computers and our economy along with it, and that the pending post-apocalyptic United States is going to make "The Walking Dead" look like child's play for at least a decade AND THEN ALSO ANNOUNCES IT IS ALL STARTING TOMORROW...</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #76a5af; font-size: large;"><b>black women will make a run on water, food, spices, and hair extensions.</b></span></blockquote>
<span style="color: #76a5af; font-size: large;"><b><br />Don't get it twisted. Even our naturalistas will be running for synthetic hair. And you know why, too. Don't pretend you don't know.<br /><br />Naturalistas will need synthetic hair for protective styles, braids, buns and such. There's no way we'll be able to get enough oils and conditioners to keep our hair sealed in a post-apocalyptic world, not even enough (gasp) mineral oil.<br /><br />Of course, we could all go the Michonne route to hair care. But then we'd have to do the big chop once the United States got everything back online. We would not be able to free our hair from 10 years worth locking.<br /><br />In the final analysis, this all means a sizable portion of the naturalista crowd will be running neck and neck with the relaxer/weave crowd to the same abandoned beauty stores. And if blond hair dye can be found in some of the same stores with black beauty products? Watch out! White women's foot prints will be left on our backs after they run us down trying to get in there first.<br /><br />I don't know about you? But I don't have Dania Gurira's face or Lupita N'yongo's face. More than that, my marble shaped head needs vertical lines given to it by hair. So no big chop for me. That means I going to be sprinting to the beauty supply store too.<br /><br />When The Pulse happens, my high heeled shoes will be clicking on the pavement faster than anybody else's, running so fast that women running ahead of me will hear my clicks coming and think </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #76a5af; font-size: large;"><b>the ghost of Flo Jo gaining on them, about to snatch them bald or snatch their soul. I fully expect hysteria, screaming, tears, and a rainbow of hair extensions and boxed hair dyes flying 10 feet into the air as women start trying to snatch one another's ill gotten gains when they're all back out on the street again.<br /><br />I think I'll plan on wearing a hockey mask to protect my face from long nails.<br /><br />If Beyonce's Bey Hive is trying to get into the abandoned beauty supply store for their leader? We will all need to think about preserving our own lives and just let them take it all. The Bey Hivers are going to be there for the weave hair, the synthetic hair, and the blond boxed dye too(saving it for after the designer versions run out) The big chop in 10 years won't be that bad. So I'll be a marble head for year. No biggie. At least, I'll be alive.<br /><br />Product junkies? They're going to have the last laugh. They'll be re-identified as "pre-planners." As pre-planners they'll be further re-identified as "responsible." As responsible people they'll be put in charge of nomadic groups sent out to get food and supplies. The responsible pre-planners that succeed at keeping large camps from starving will eventually be elected to high political positions once the world come back to being normal.<br />----<br /><br />In the hear and now this means I'm being responsible with my money if I buy yet another potentially magic hair conditioner. So what if I don't have any more room in my hair cabinet. This next purchase could lead to me being president one day 10 or so years from now, right? </b></span><span style="color: magenta;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://blackchickrocked.blogspot.com/">BLACKCHICKROCKED.BLOGSPOT.COM</a></span></span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17006988928907402586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-521894010920229796.post-84293797703952543542019-03-03T09:00:00.000-08:002019-03-03T09:00:00.861-08:00Barbara Gardner Proctor The First Black Woman To Own An Advertising Agency<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #d5a6bd; font-size: large;"><b> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Despite being born to a 16-year-old single mother in North Carolina and raised by her grandparents in a dirt-floor shack that had neither running water nor electricity, Proctor was never the one to allow her circumstances to define her. She went on to earn a scholarship to Talladega College in Alabama, where she obtained a degree in English, psychology and social sciences. </span></b></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #d5a6bd; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b> While she made plans to return home to work as a teacher, her plans changed after she stopped in Chicago following the completion of her summer camp counseling job in Kalamazoo, Michigan.<br /> "I wound up spending all of my money and didn't have bus fare to get home,” Proctor told the Chicago Tribune in 1990. “And in large measure, for 30 years I've been trying to get my bus fare back to North Carolina." </b></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #d5a6bd; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><br /> In her unexpected career change, Proctor worked for the Urban League, DownBeat magazine, and Vee-Jay Records. During her time at Vee-Jay Records, she closed a deal that helped introduce the Beatles to America.<br /> Then, after working for a few different advertising firms, Proctor went on to secure an $80,000 Small Business Administration loan and started her own advertising business, Proctor & Gardner Advertising. It grew into the nation's largest Black-owned agency within a six-year time period, reported the Chicago Sun Times... </b></span> </blockquote>
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<b><span style="color: #cc0000;"> Read More:</span></b> <a href="https://www.becauseofthemwecan.com/blogs/botwc-firsts/barbara-gardner-proctor-was-the-first-black-woman-to-own-an-ad-agency?">https://www.becauseofthemwecan.com/blogs/botwc-firsts/barbara-gardner-proctor-was-the-first-black-woman-to-own-an-ad-agency?</a></blockquote>
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<b style="color: #d5a6bd; font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> Born in 1933, Proctor died on December 19, 2018 due to complications from hip surgery. She was 86 years old. </b><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17006988928907402586noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-521894010920229796.post-82544292321882867842019-03-02T17:25:00.000-08:002019-03-02T17:25:00.245-08:00March 2 1955: CLAUDETTE COLVIN IN HER OWN WORDS<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Before Rosa Parks there was Claudette Colvin</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> Colvin was the first person to be arrested for challenging Montgomery's bus segregation policies, so her story made a few local papers - but nine months later, the same act of defiance by Rosa Parks was reported all over the world</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> February was, at that time, only Negro History Week, not history month. But the faculty members at my school said we were are gonna do it the whole month because African Americans — at that time we were called "negroes" — were deliberately kept out of American history. The boys liked to talk about Jackie Robinson, breaking the baseball barrier. My instructor talked about Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman. We started talking about the injustice and how we were discriminated against locally. That’s why I was so fired up and so angry when the bus driver asked me to get up. It was more than myself....<br /><br /> I was in 11th grade.<br /> It started out a normal day.We got out early and 13 of us students walked to downtown Montgomery and boarded a city bus on Dexter Avenue, exactly across the street from Dr. Martin Luther King’s church.<br /> As the bus proceeded down Court Square, more white passengers got on the bus. In order for this white lady to have a seat, four students would have to vacate because a white person wasn’t allowed to sit across from a colored person. So the bus driver asked for the four seats and three of the students got up. I remained seated.<br /> History had me glued to the seat. Harriet Tubman’s hands were pushing down on one shoulder and Sojourner Truth’s hand were pushing down on the other shoulder. I was paralyzed between these two women, I couldn’t move...</span></blockquote>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">TV</em>: You were dropped by the movement after the trial as a young single mother. Do you ever feel like you don’t get enough credit? For instance, the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History refers to your contribution in passing as a “test case,” when in fact you played a pivotal role in the case that helped crumble segregation.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">CC:</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;">I was glad that Rosa did it and that people was at last going to stand out. It was important to have Rosa as a face that they could rally around. All four of us didn't get enough credit. Mary Louise Smith...</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Some people, the students, were sympathetic at first. They knew my mindset and what I was thinking, but their parents persuaded them not to be involved with me because I was a troublemaker and “this wasn’t the right thing to do.” They already thought I was crazy. Before then, in the 10th grade, I had stopped straightening my hair...</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18px;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I didn't know about depression, but I became a little depressed. I lost all my friends and really needed someone. I got pregnant in July and I went back to school in September. I began showing around four months after I was pregnant. I was expelled from school around the Christmas holiday . My principal told me not to come back...</span></span></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.teenvogue.com/story/claudette-colvin-explains-her-role-in-the-civil-rights-movement"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">https://www.teenvogue.com/story/claudette-colvin-explains-her-role-in-the-civil-rights-movement </span></a></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #514f26; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> She went to Montgomery juvenile court on March 18, 1955, and was represented by </span><a href="https://blackpast.org/aah/gray-fred-d-1932" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="Fred Gray">Fred Gray</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">, an African American lawyer from the </span><a href="https://blackpast.org/aah/montgomery-improvement-association-1955-1969" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA)">Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA)</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">. Although she defended her innocence on the three charges, she was found guilty. The court sentenced her to indefinite probation and declared her to be a ward of the state. </span></span></span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> The Montgomery chapter of the </span><a href="https://blackpast.org/perspectives/national-association-advancement-colored-people-and-long-struggle-civil-rights-united-s" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)">National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> looked into her case and initially raised money to appeal her conviction. On May 6, 1955, her case was moved to the Montgomery Circuit Court, where two of the three charges against Colvin were dropped. Colvin’s charge of allegedly assaulting the arresting police officers was maintained...</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #514f26; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">[While Jo Ann Robinson and the </span><a href="https://blackpast.org/aah/women-s-political-council-montgomery" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="Women’s Political Council (WPC)">Women’s Political Council (WPC)</a> led the<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span><a href="https://blackpast.org/aah/montgomery-bus-boycott-1955-56" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="Montgomery bus boycott">Montgomery bus boycott</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> in December of 1955,] the NAACP and MIA filed a lawsuit on behalf of Colvin, and four other women, including Mary Louise Smith, who had been involved in earlier acts of civil disobedience on the Montgomery buses.</span> </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> Colvin served as a witness for the case, </span><a href="https://blackpast.org/primary/browder-v-gayle-1956" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="Gayle v Browder"><i>Gayle v Browder</i></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">, which eventually reached the U.S. Supreme Court. </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Gayle v Browder</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> more </span><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">explicitly overturned </span><a href="https://blackpast.org/primarywest/plessy-v-ferguson-1896" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="Plessy v Ferguson"><i>Plessy v Ferguson</i></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">than </span><a href="https://blackpast.org/primary/brown-v-board-education-1954" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" title="Brown v Board"><i>Brown v Board</i></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> had, because like </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Plessy</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">, it was specifically about transportation...</span></span></blockquote>
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<u><span style="color: #0b5394;"><b>PLESSY V FERGUSON (establishes "separate but equal" in 1896)</b></span></u></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"> This case turns upon the constitutionality of an act of the general assembly of the state of Louisiana, passed in 1890, providing for separate railway carriages for the white and colored races.<br /> The first section of the statute enacts 'that all railway companies carrying passengers in their coaches in this state, shall provide equal but separate accommodations for the white, and colored races, by providing two or more passenger coaches for each passenger train, or by dividing the passenger coaches by a partition so as to secure separate accommodations: provided, that this section shall not be construed to apply to street railroads.<br /> No person or persons shall be permitted to occupy seats in coaches, other than the ones assigned to them, on account of the race they belong to.'</span></blockquote>
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