#black african people

[realjaysumlin]

Shocking Reason Why the West Wants Africa to Remain Poor & Underdevelope...

These shit people glorify themselves without any concerns about the mistreatment of Black Indigenous People globally and they hate everything about Africa but it's resources.

We as a Black Indigenous People globally need to wake up and realize that we only have each other to count on. Black on Black Love is essential and needed for our very own survival without any need to depend on someone else.

Becoming disenfranchised is not acceptable under any conditions or circumstances. It's up to us to take back the entire earth as we did before. We have to think for ourselves and we must stop asking the very people who hate everything Black or African unless it's exploitation.

We are not anyone's slaves as their shit religions say about us and our history, this is to break us mentally and to make us feel helpless, hopeless and destitute, we are greater than any one on earth and we need to get back to the roots of being Black and African.

[afriblaq]

resist.riseup.movement

Residents in the historically Black Lincoln Heights Village in Cincinnati have organized community defense after a provocation by a neo-Nazi group.

[the-blueprint]

"Brazilian hand games and American hand games!!!! Realizing that the art of hand games comes from Africa! I never thought about it before. It was just embedded in our childhood."

"The collective consciousness is real"

"My goodness. We played this in Nigeria too."

There's a documentary with @jamilawoods called "Black Girls Play" about the history of handclap games in the US and their importance in the Black community. And a book before it called The Games Black Girls Play, by Kyra D. Gaunt.

[blackstarlineage]

This is how Haitians won their freedom: no pleading, no marching, no begging, no signing petitions, no holding up signs, no chanting, no sit-ins—just decisive action! 🇭🇹

[afropridelife]

[damionchamberlain]

HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH 🖤🫶🏿

[ayandagama]

kukhanya.k

[saydesole]

Our story is forever

Black is history

History is Black ✊🏿

[blackisdivine]

Black beauty ❤

[naturalhairhow101]

The Tignon laws of the 18th century were laws that banned black women from exposing their natural hair in public.

Their hairdos was obscuring the status of the white women and this threatened the social stability. The law would control colored women “who dressed too elegantly..”

Resembling today’s West African Gele, a tignon is a type of head-covering. It is a large piece of material wrapped or tied around the head to form a kind of turban concealing the hair.

Tignons were worn by free and slave Creole women of African descent in Louisiana from 1786. Historically, their prevalence was as a result of sumptuary laws passed in 1786 under Governor Esteban Rodriguez Miró.

These prescribed and enforced appropriate public dress styles for women of color in a white-dominated society. Hence, they were made as a way of regulating the appearance of black women in the U.S.

During the period, when black enslavement in America was at its peak, and places like New Orleans was unique in its high population of gens de couleur libres (free people of color), black women’s beauty and features often attracted white men who approached them as suitors.

This enraged white women who perceived them as competitors. Evidently, African women competed openly with white women through elegant dressing, including adorning their textured hair with gems, beads, and other accents that made them stand out from white women and possessing great beauty.

To take care of this perceived menace, series of sumptuary laws birthing the Tignon Law were put in place in order to stop white men from pursuing and engaging in affairs with women of colour, “while also being a class signifier,”

[afriblaq]

[theafroamericaine]

Such a rich culture 🖤🤎🇺🇸

Source

[the-blueprint]

The Zaouli dance: A mesmerizing blend of rhythm, tradition, and artistry. More than a performance, it’s a cultural heartbeat of the Guro people of Côte d’Ivoire. 🌍✨

[blackstarlineage]

[iridessence]

Bessie Downing, 1900s. Mary Everhard Collection