1. »  A Love Bizarre: Day 354

    missturman:

    Don’t settle.

    I’ve settled more times than I can remember, so I know what I’m talking about. Settling doesn’t enliven you, bring you joy or elicit love. Settling is wack.

    I don’t care how good it/they/he/she seems. Don’t settle. Pay attention to your intuition. Just because it glitters, doesn’t…

  2. picturedept:

    The Teenie Harris Archive 

    Stumbling upon photographer Teenie Harris was a fortuitous piece of luck while reading David Maraniss’ biography of baseball great Roberto Clemente, Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball’s Last Hero.

     Nicknamed “One Shot” because he rarely made a subject sit through retakes, Charles “Teenie” Harris (1908-1998) photographed Pittsburgh’s African American community at his photography studio and from 1936 until 1975 as a staffer with the Pittsburgh Courier, one of America’s oldest local black newspapers.

     In his dual capacities as commercial and news photographer, Harris photographed both celebrities (Earl Hines, Lena Horne, Harry Truman, Jackie Robinson) and local figures. Collectively, his work provides an emotively vibrant group portrait of a community’s everyday life as played out against the Jim Crow and Civil Rights eras. (According to Jonathan Gaugler at the Carnegie Museum of Art, women in the community would stop by Harris’ studio immediately after they got their hair done, sit down and turn away from the camera. They had come for portraits of their new hairdos, and Harris obliged.)

     In 2001, the Carnegie Museum of Art was entrusted with the Teenie Harris Archive of nearly 80,000 negatives. Almost 1,000 images can be viewed on the museum’s website.

     Fun fact: dozens of Harris’ images capture Negro League baseball players from the Homestead Grays and the Pittsburgh Crawfords, a team for which Harris himself played when they were the Crawford Colored Giants.

  4. you’d be hard pressed to find a doll that dark anymore. I need a few for my future kids.

    you’d be hard pressed to find a doll that dark anymore. I need a few for my future kids.

  5. Shit Black people just can't do, say, and/or act like.

    • white teen with her lil'sis: "Aw, sister day out"
    • black teen with her lil'sis: "OMG she gota baby so young?"
    • White teenage mother: "mistakes happen"
    • Black teenage mother: "thats so sad" "her father wasn't in her life" "welfare queen" (Black people reaction) "Thats a damn shame she gotta baby" "dumb bitch"
    • White graffiti artist: art
    • Black graffiti artist: vandalism
    • White people with locs/dreads: "OMG you're sucha rebel" "your dreads are so hawt"
    • Black people with locs/dreads: unprofessional
    • White girl wearing short shorts: no big deal its summertime
    • Black girl with short shorts: "she has no respect for herself" (Black people reaction)"she's bringing our race down"
    • White men sagging: "Swag" "thats just the style"
    • Black men sagging: gangsta, thug, "he looks suspicious"
    • The vast majority of drug users?: White people
    • The vast majority of people incarcerated for drugs?: Black
    • White people: no stop and search
    • Black people: "he looks suspicious"
    • White with a hoodie: "its cold out" "thats the new style"
    • Black with a hoodie: "he looks suspicious" "he's dangerous and might have some skittles and iced tea"
    • Whites rapping about money, cars, etc: "this is sooo dope" "swag" "Mac Miller is BEAST!"
    • Black rapping about money, cars, etc: "this is music?"
    • White in the Ivy League: Congratz!!
    • Black in the Ivy League: "sport scholarship?" (Black people reaction)"Oh, you hoop? football or track?"
    • White college athlete: .....
    • Black college athlete: "thats the only way they can get in college" "you're only here cus' you can dribble a ball"
    • White people & rock music: normal
    • Black people & rock music: "you like this music?" (Black people reaction) "you listen to white people shit?"<---Even though Black people were some of the earliest pioneers of Rock-n-Roll
    • White ex-con: *processes application* "This is America we believe in second chances"
    • Black ex-con: Application meet mister trash can
    • White homophobia: tolerable
    • Black homophobia: "you guys have always hated gays" "you know thats like slavery"
    • White in the mall: no need to follow them
    • Black in the mall: lets play follow the black ma- I mean, leader
    • White with bad grammar: no big deal
    • Black with bad grammar: crucified
    • White & tatted up: body art
    • Black & tatted up: thug/gangsta
    • White drug addicts: rehab
    • Black drug addicts: jail
    • Movies about the world ending: White man saves the day
    • Movies about the world ending: about 4billion Asians & around 2 billions Blacks seemingly disappear....
    • White actors: kings, witches, aliens, warlocks, lawyers, superheroes, teachers, etc.
    • Black actors: slaves, gangsta, slaves, drug addicts, slaves, poor people.
    • White woman angry: Justifiable and a lil'bitchy at the most
    • Black woman angry: Could have had the most shit filled and fucked up day and will always be The Angry Black Woman

  6. blackfashion:

    Leomie Anderson “Rain in the Dust” by Saty Pratha for Fashion Gone Rogue

  7. firstbook: YAY! 

    firstbook:

    YAY! 

  8. "An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises."
    Mae West (via monamade)
  9. "My response to white folk who are quick to tell me, “Well, if you don’t like it, go back to where you came from!”: You first."
    Son of Baldwin (via sonofbaldwin)

  10. how many non-black pocs react to anti-black racism:

    • black person: please know that other pocs are measured on the blackness scale. note how white people would come up with slurs such as "sand niggers", "yellow niggers", etc. it shows that being black is pretty much the worse thing on earth, and that we'll always be oppressed due to anti-black racism.
    • non-black poc: NO STOP PLAYING OPPRESSION OLYMPICS. WE ALL FACE RACISM. STOP SAYING THAT BLACK PEOPLE HAVE IT WORSE.
    • black person: i'm aware that we all experience racism. however, anti-black racism is prevalent in every poc community including our own. it's pretty fund--
    • non-black poc: NO. WE ALL FACE RACISM STOP BEING SO IRRATIONAL! I THOUGHT YOU GUYS WANTED SOLIDARITY?!
    • black person: we do, but in order to fight solidarity we need to fight anti-black---
    • non-black poc: IT'S NOT ALWAYS ABOUT YOU SHUT UP. YOU GUYS ALWAYS ARE UP IN ARMS AND HAVE NO COHESIVE ARGUMENT.
    • black person: but i'm trying to explain--
    • non-black poc: STOP IT!!
    • biyuti: Just putting this here 'cause it is painfully true.
  11. "For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again."
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (via a-place-to-stand)
  12. "We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other."
    Audre Lorde (via tbgptumbles)
  14. soulscifi:  book, an exhibition and three films will tell, from November 3th, the story of “La France noire” (“Black France”): three centuries of blacks in France.In the light of Black Britain (2007) by Paul Gilroy, “Le Paris noir” (Hazan, 2001) or Black Paris (2007), this book will be a unique reference of three centuries of blacks in France, from all communities and all over the world for three centuries of shared history.The books is also part a program by the research group ACHAC (Association pour la connaissance de l’histoire de l’Afrique contemporaine), a program which is at the crossroads of several anniversaries: the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the war in Algeria, the 65th anniversary of the departmentalisation of the “old colonies” (Antilles, French Guiana and Réunion), the 80th anniversary of the French Colonial Exhibition (1931) and the 10th anniversary of the law Taubira (2001), a law which recognises slavery as a crime against humanity.Author: The historian Pascal BlanchardPublisher: www.editionsladecouverte.frBrowse in a digital viewing copy of a part of the book athttp://en.calameo.com

    soulscifi:

     book, an exhibition and three films will tell, from November 3th, the story of “La France noire” (“Black France”): three centuries of blacks in France.

    In the light of Black Britain (2007) by Paul Gilroy, “Le Paris noir” (Hazan, 2001) or Black Paris (2007), this book will be a unique reference of three centuries of blacks in France, from all communities and all over the world for three centuries of shared history.

    The books is also part a program by the research group ACHAC (Association pour la connaissance de l’histoire de l’Afrique contemporaine), a program which is at the crossroads of several anniversaries: the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the war in Algeria, the 65th anniversary of the departmentalisation of the “old colonies” (Antilles, French Guiana and Réunion), the 80th anniversary of the French Colonial Exhibition (1931) and the 10th anniversary of the law Taubira (2001), a law which recognises slavery as a crime against humanity.

    Author: The historian Pascal Blanchard
    Publisher: www.editionsladecouverte.fr

    Browse in a digital viewing copy of a part of the book athttp://en.calameo.com

  15. "Live your Life. Live your Life. Live your Life."
    Maurice Sendak has died. We’re changing the entire show today to remember him. This quote is from his most recent Fresh Air appearance last year. (via nprfreshair)

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