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Watch: In a powerful Congresional speech, Sandra Bland’s mother called people who think they’re woke “the walking dead” because of how little we still know

The speech included a rousing call to action before the newly formed Congressional Caucus On Black Women & Girls. And her words were incredibly resonant, even if you think you know the whole story.

Gifs: Josh Begley

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go tell your mother you love her

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Frederick Douglass and Harriet Ross Tubman were both born into slavery around the same time on Maryland’s Eastern Shore and became two of the best-known African Americans of the Civil War era. Both Douglass and Tubman escaped slavery as young adults: he in 1838, she in 1849, but did not turn their backs on their fellows in bondage and fought the rest of their lives to free their people.

While Douglass fought with words by becoming the spokesperson for the anti-slavery movement, giving lectures, and starting his own abolitionist newspaper, Harriet operated in the shadows. During a ten-year span, she made 19 trips into the South and escorted over 300 slaves to freedom. She once proudly pointed out to Douglass, that in all of her journeys she “never lost a single passenger.”

Below you will find a very powerful letter written to Harriet by Douglas in 1868.

Dear Harriet:

I am glad to know that the story of your eventful life has been written by a kind lady, and that the same is soon to be published. You ask for what you do not need when you call upon me for a word of commendation. I need such words from you far more than you can need them from me, especially where your superior labors and devotion to the cause of the lately enslaved of our land are known as I know them. The difference between us is very marked. Most that I have done and suffered in the service of our cause has been in public, and I have received much encouragement at every step of the way. You, on the other hand, have labored in a private way. I have wrought in the day – you in the night. I have had the applause of the crowd and the satisfaction that comes of being approved by the multitude, while the most that you have done has been witnessed by a few trembling, scarred, and foot-sore bondmen and women, whom you have led out of the house of bondage, and whose heartfelt, “God bless you,” has been your only reward. The midnight sky and the silent stars have been the witnesses of your devotion to freedom and of your heroism. Excepting John Brown – of sacred memory – I know of no one who has willingly encountered more perils and hardships to serve our enslaved people than you have. Much that you have done would seem improbable to those who do not know you as I know you. It is to me a great pleasure and a great privilege to bear testimony for your character and your works, and to say to those to whom you may come, that I regard you in every way truthful and trustworthy.

Your friend,

Frederick Douglass.

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forever and always

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I low key wish I was pretty. Like really pretty. Like gorgeous. The kind of good looks that have everyone wanting to know who you are and where you came from and wondering how you ended up in the same space as them.

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Men have been taught their entire lives to not step back from power. You better learn this as a black woman. Never ever step back.

Ijeoma Umebinyuo (via theijeoma)

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I am black; I am female; I am an immigrant. Every one of these labels plays an equally significant part in my perception of myself and the world around me. If I am expected to investigate the events of my life with my therapist, then I expect him/her to have a working, if not fundamental, knowledge of how what I have lived factors into who I am and the ways in which I cope.

Meri Nana-Ama Danquah, Willow Weep For Me  (via climbthestacks)

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Hey guys, I’ll be heading to Alaska this May! (This is a photo from Colorado last year)

I want to make the most of my photographic experience while I’m there, so there’s a couple pieces of gear that I’ll need to buy/rent.

I’m currently raising funds at www.dannyxphoto.com/donations. Anything helps! If you donate $30 or more, you will receive a signed print of your choice! Even if you can’t donate, please reblog and share this to spread the word.

If you are uncomfortable with donations, please check out the prints section of my site. Enter promo code: alaska2016 for 15% off your purchase! www.dannyxphoto.com/prints

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particularly that last paragragh

Boyfriend failed the test

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March 5th is Log Out Day! March 6th is Blackout Day!

In protest of Tumblr not acknowledging Black History Month on the day before the 1 year anniversary of the Blackout we’re logging out for 24 hours. Then on Blackout day we’ll log back in and show how them much we matter! There’s no sense in complaining about the staff if we’re not going to stand up to them so let’s make them feel our absence and then flood them with our presence! Reblog and spread the word! 

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Yo. YO.

Can this be ANY more real?

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“I always wanted to be someone in the fashion industry. Maybe a stylist for the magazines. Instead I’m working as an office assistant at a pharmaceutical company. Though I must say, I think the office looks better because of me. I’ve been handing out tips. People are sprucing up a bit more. Some of the ladies are trying new lipsticks. We’re loosening up.”

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Saw this quote on a different picture but I felt frank’s words didn’t match the photo so I did a completely new edit. This really means so much to me and explains why I connect with his album channel orange, I’m channeling my Orange.

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Photos from the blessing and memorial of African slaves by the Eze Nri of Agukwu Nri, Eze Nri Ènweleána II at the Igbo farmers compound at the Frontier Culture Museum in Staunton, Virginia, 2011. Photos by Newsleader staff. [+] Nri is noted for being the oldest existing kingdom in Nigeria and for never having a standing army or slaves. Slaves were freed when entering Nri territory and they sent out priests known as ọ̀zọ̀ whose jobs were to spread peace and to deal with spiritual matters around much of Igboland and beyond.

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Watch: It’s your right to share your salary, not doing so could be holding you back.