#black lives

[alwaysbewoke]

[ifelllikeastar]

Willie Mays amazes centerfield fans with a leaping, one-handed catch of Duke Snider's long drive in 1954.

[onlytiktoks]

@a-captions-blog

[mos-twin-mattress]

It's so crazy... 2020 feels like a complete fever dream... I thought and hoped and prayed that we would keep the BLM momentum going like it was that year... But we didn't .... People started to forget and speak on it less.

I posted and still post as much as I can ab Black lives on my Facebook... Ab other social justice issues. Sometimes it felt like I was just screaming into a void... I still feel betrayed at times, by the white girlies who just a few years ago were in the streets saying "if they start shooting stand behind me"

My life doesn't feel important to most ppl. They talk a big game ab caring and wanting things to change, but at the end of the day most ppl don't want the status quo to change. They just want to do enough to look like a good person.

If this post makes you angry, makes you feel some typa way then I URGE you to look inwards and figure out WHY it strikes such an uncomfortablity in you. Figure out what you could be doing more...

I know it's difficult to hear these words, I know looking inwards is hard and uncomfortable, I've been there, I STILL have a cop in my head that I need to kill. We ALL do!

[without-ado]

The True America l Ernest Cole

The first publication of Cole's photographs depicting Black lives in the United States during the late 1960s and early 1970s l Magnum Photos

[framed-dreamz]

Labor Day Parade 2014 NYC & Culture!!! Curl Fest NYC 2019

[ausetkmt]

Harlem was a whole different world in the 70's

[lebuc]

what matters

* '…or forever', said she, matter of factly

to my question as we worked the same shift,

about how long she would like to keep sharing our mutual lunchbreaks

usually lasting about an hour, generously speaking.

my iced tea tried to leap out of my mouth, requiring a Herculean effort to keep it all contained

as well as my raised eyebrow inclination & widened eyes.

i guess i did a pretty good job at both, to my dismay/chagrin,

when following an awkward silent pause post-swallow, she then said: '…or never';

if it doesn't really matter to you;

to which i later replied, after chewing: 'good sushi',

'cause good sushi matters. * 9/23 - lebuc - what matters *

P.S.: after lo' these many years, our daughter & son matter too - *with* good sushi...

[fashionlandscapeblog]

I also live in a safe country outside of US so no need to worry about me but I appreciate your concern. All you did is the exact trite thing all liberal dems do. Play the empathy card. But there are fires all over the world all the time. So as long as there’s a crisis I don’t have the right to ask Dems to offer something better to me than “you’re a bad person bc you’re not thinking of the children” ??? Election cycle after election cycle there’re global crises - and how are my circumstances improving? How can I save others if my oxygen mask isn’t on? Go look at the stats for WOC you’re supposedly screaming on behalf of whose lives you don’t even understand bc you’re admittedly not connected to America. Straight out of their weak playbook 🤡 you mean well but do better.

I am not a f*cking liberal, less a democrat, why don't you understand this?

While I agree with everything you say, this is not Bush vs Clinton , this is about democracy versus sliding into fascism. The far-right is gaining ground all over the world and the U.S.A. is a role model and will have influence everywhere just like it did in 2016 coinciding with the rise of the far-right in Europe. With climate change, even the smallest differences in policies can have a huge influence in the future of the whole planet and humanity.

I have tried for many years to understand Black Lives and their circumstances, yet I will never be able to, because even if I am a WOC and already very f*cked by my ethnicity, I know you have it much worse than I can ever conceive. My life hasn't improved either, but I know when a f*cking psychopath is about to be the president of the biggest superpower of the world and believe me, I don't just mean well, I mean for all of us to save our lives with whatever means we can.

[alwaysbewoke]

this is chief among the reasons why i have no respect for black republicans.

[ifelllikeastar]

Howlin’ Wolf was one of the greatest blues artists of all time. A wonderful and unique vocalist, an uninhibited entertainer, a great band leader, and a magical recording artist.

Chester Burnett aka Howlin' Wolf was born June 10, 1910 in Whites, Mississippi.

[mosscaller]

Nothing like waking up to people spewing lies and vitriol about the gay and trans community.

No one in our community is harming children.

Try checking the church for that shit. Unlike them, we don't want to hurt anyone. The church has been harming marginalized communities for years, even documenting it in the name of their god.

So yeah, maybe fuck off?

[mos-twin-mattress]

I dream ab death almost everynight. I am a black woman afraid, terrified.

When i go outside, I am on hyper alert. When I see white people, my heart speeds up and I feel cold and clammy, mouth dry.

Police cars invoke the cruelest angers in me, I wish the most horrific hatreds and pains on the officers. I can not help it. I know they wish the same on me.

I feel so sick to my stomach, when I see the news. I feel so dog tired. Anxiously awaiting the next horrific story.

I don't trust my own chosen family, because they are white. The people who took me into their home, and made me feel loved. But I see all these stories of Black woman murdered by people who seem like friends. But they are wolves waiting to tear apart and scatter the pieces.

I am fearful of sleep, the death imagines always waiting to pounce and ruin my sleep and pyche. I am a ruined woman.

The child I once was, the child who thought the police would help, is dead. The child who was happy and bubbly and laughed a lot.

I am a broken woman, I am a sickly woman. The stress has destroyed my nerves. I am sickly already, my immune system is shot. I get infections often, I throw up near daily.

I just want to live in a world where I don't have to fear thy neighbor. I want to love thy neighbor. But my neighbors, some of them, are Nazis, are klanmen, are cruel and devious. They wish me harm, death, more.

When I open my eyes, I curse the fact. Curse that I am condemned to live another day in hell.

I want to be hopeful, I do. I am not tho. This has been going on for more than 200 years. We are a nation ravaged by sickness. We are all diseased. Touched by the racism that poisons us all. The white supremacy that permeates.

We are a nation divided, full of hate, cruelty, sickness. And I am ruined by it. I am destroyed by it.

I am tired

[shakespearenews]

It is this idea of reanimating the archive, and the Black lives Habib locates within it, that inspires the work of the poet Caroline Randall Williams, which I have been teaching and writing about. Williams’ Lucy Negro, Redux, published in 2019 with the subtitle: The Bard, a Book, and a Ballet, tells the story of Shakespeare’s Sonnets from the point of view of a figure from the archives who has been called “Lucy Negro”, and whom some have seen as a possible model for the so-called “Dark Lady” to whom the later part of the sequence seems to be addressed. 

“In August of 2012, I got it into my head that Shakespeare had a black lover,” Williams writes, “and that this woman was the subject of sonnets 127 to 154.” Lucy Negro, Redux intersperses Williams’ poems about Lucy with a prose account telling the story of her meeting with English professor Duncan Salkeld and, consequently, with the figure of “Black Luce” in the archives of Bridewell prison. Interweaving archival narrative with original poems Williams recovers and reclaims an overlooked Black life from the English archive in ways that resonate with Habib’s own critical and creative project.

[mohamedsghiri]

Black Histoire

[uglytrannymess]

Mental health topic. TW//

Doctors, psychiatrists, and therapists will tell you: "It's not possible to become addicted to these medications"

But what they don't tell you is how you can become addicted to numbing the emotional pain with anxiety, depression, bipolar meds & other meds used as prescriptions for mental illness....they don't tell you how you can become addicted to the idea of just not feeling anything enough to swallow an entire bottle of depression and anxiety medication, the anxiety and sadness just becomes too much for you to take, it's like you're drowning in your own depression, and you can't breathe so the best idea you can think of is letting go of your lifeline or flotation device so you can stop treading water, the exhaustion from paddling and swimming thru your sorrow becomes too much to bear that you just prefer to give up and just drown deep enough in the waters of your sorrow that it's enough to kill you.