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Vintage African Mother & Baby Child Copper Designer Brooch by Joe Calafato – South Africa

Simply beautiful copper brooch by world-renowned South African jewelry artist, Joe Calafato. Calafato is known for his designs that have an endearing quality of compositions of African life. The circular brooch is a masterfully designed depiction of an African mother wearing a traditional headdress, beads, and adornments, carrying her sleeping, infant child on her back. This brooch has an endearing and enduring sentiment for one with a discerning eye for African beauty and art.

This beautiful brooch is hallmarked, not with one of Calafato’s more well-known maker’s marks, but is instead hallmarked with his signature all-caps, arial font: COPPER. Calafato’s timeless, African iconography and aesthetic appreciation of African expressions of nurturance, protection, and culturally traditional, African female beauty is evident in this fantastic brooch!

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The Eve Gene

Black women are the blueprint. Science proves that the Mitochondrial Eve, the mother of all humans, was an African woman. While all humans carry traces of her DNA, African women have more direct and diverse mtDNA lineages than non-Africans because their ancestors experienced fewer mutations over time. Black women, particularly those from Africa, have thee most unaltered genetic connection to her due to their deep-rooted genetic diversity.

When my cousin was in the NICU, the doctor and an older white nurse told my cousin that Black children born as preemies are always healthier and get out the hospital at a documented faster rate than other babies, and that Black girls graduate the NICU the fastest and the healthies over the Black male babies. It’s LITERALLY in us, and the healthcare industry knows it and has seen and documented the awe of our genes.

When they say "she get it from her Mama", believe that!

God truly does give his toughest battles to his toughest people, bc had we been any other group of people, we would've been extinct.

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🐘 Nothing quite compares like the bond between a mother and her child. Related African elephant (Loxodonta africana) females and their young live in tight-knit families led by a matriarch. This older, female leader helps the group survive by sharing her hard-earned wisdom, like remembering the locations of  watering holes in times of drought. 

Elephant family groups grow very attached. Mothers are extremely protective of their calves, and younger females act as attentive “babysitters.” These giants show their affection through touch, especially with their trunks, as well as through gesture and sound. Individual elephants remember their feelings for one another even when separated for years. Learn more about these incredible animals in the Museum’s exhibition The Secret World of Elephants.

Photo: Timothy A. Gonsalves, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons 

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Beautiful poem by @hess2love

“Just stop talking about it. New rules are in. We don’t care about this stuff anymore, it’s been so long ago”

That’s what some people say. But if you look at history, the connection is undeniable. And those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it…

For centuries, Black mothers were forced to breastfeed the children of enslavers while their own babies went hungry and often, didn’t make it past infancy. This wasn’t just an individual hardship!!! it was a system designed to strip Black women of their autonomy and break the bonds between mother and child.

Even after slavery ended, those wounds never fully healed. The formula industry aggressively marketed to Black communities, hospitals failed to provide adequate lactation support, and racist policies made breastfeeding even harder. The result? Generations of Black mothers left without the resources to feed their babies the way they wanted to.

Black History Month isn’t just about remembering names and dates, it’s about acknowledging the struggles that shaped our present and fighting for a better future. Breastfeeding is part of that fight. It’s about reclaiming autonomy, health, and the right to nourish children without barriers.

So, does Black History Month have anything to do with breastfeeding? The answer is in the history. And history demands that we do better.

"I wish I dried up, I wish every drop of my milk slipped past those pink lips and nourished the ground where the bones lay of my Babies, starved while I feed their murderer. I wish I dried up, so the missus babies would dry up too and be brittle, so I could crumble them to dust, return them to the ground where all children of my bosom lay Equal." - Hess Love

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African elephant Beekse Bergen 3L0A3384 by safi kok

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Happy Feast Day

Our Lady of Kibeho

Feast day: November 28

Our Lady of Kibeho is the name given to Marian apparitions concerning several adolescents, in the 1980s in Kibeho, south-western Rwanda. The apparitions communicated various messages to the schoolchildren, including an apocalyptic vision of Rwanda descending into violence and hatred, possibly foretelling the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. Our Lady of Kibeho became the first and only Vatican-approved Marian site in Africa.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase. (website)

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Michelle Obama and her daughters, Sasha & Malia.

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My mom made them face towards each other because she says they are "her two gay interracial nutcrackers"

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#TwoForTuesday #hippos:

Fritz Rudolf Hug (Swiss, 1921-1989)

1. Maternité, 1970 oil on canvas, 80 x 120 cm

2. Hippo, n.d. oil on canvas, 46 × 46 cm

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It's beautiful to see a mixed child waiting for their next mixed sibling to be born