posttragicmulatto:

Nina Simone talking about The Blackness.

Ms Nina Simone

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anarcho-queer:

NYPD Sued For Pepper Spraying Infant And 2 Children

A mother is suing the New York Police Department (NYPD) over what she says was an instance of police brutality where cops pepper-sprayed her three little children. Courthouse News Service reports that the mother, Marilyn Taylor, made the claims recently in court about the alleged August 9 incident.

Taylor says that police officers pepper sprayed her three children, who are 5-months old and 2 and 4 years old. She claims that as she was on her way to board a Manhattan-bound L Train, officers stopped her and her husband and accused them of trying to skip a fare. Taylor was pushing a stroller with her two-year-old through a service door rather than the regular turnstile.

That’s when the police officers allegedly pepper sprayed Taylor, and the spray hit her children. The lawsuit claims that “the pepper-spray caused the children to scream out and choked the two-year old, who went into fits of vomiting.”

Taylor was arrested, and she said that cops pushed her down the stairs so harshly that the handcuffs bruised her wrists and lower back, according to Courthouse News Service. The officers who carried out the alleged brutality are named in the suit: Maripily Clase, Suranjit Dey and Jermaine Hodge.

Taylor’s husband, named Dehaven McClain, had to get all three children home by himself.

A day after the incident, Taylor says she “received an adjournment in contemplation of a dismissal, meaning the charges would be tossed if she did not get arrested again within a certain time,” according to the news outlet.

The lawsuit provides more details on the aftermath of the attack. “After the attack, mother and father suffered ongoing eye injuries and all three children suffer emotional harms, and are now afraid to ride the subways and become afraid when they see police officers. The four year-old cried herself to sleep for weeks, and after the incident the two-year-old began waking up in the night crying for her mother,” the complaint reads.

Taylor has said that the officers have continued to harass her since the August 9 event.

The family is seeking punitive damages for what they say were civil rights violations, assault, battery, negligence, and violations to the state and federal constitutions, according to the Courthouse News Service. The NYPD did not respond to requests for comment.

absolutely ridiculous. 

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fuckyeavanity:

urban-s0ul:

I’ve been waiting for this..

1968 Olympic Black Power Salute. 

greatest fucking gif on tumblr.

awesome gif. tommy smith, john carlos 

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xpayne:

amazing. been looking for something like this. all i need is this in poster form!!!! 

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the-bitch-goddess-success:

note-a-bear:

ashesforjustice:

midwestjunkie:

steverodneymcqueen:

Chiwetel Ejiofor is the star of McQueen’s upcoming film ‘Twelve Years A Slave’ based on the true events that happened in Solomon Northup’s life.

Here, he is photographed with Don Cheadle by Carlos Serrao for Esquire Magazine.

Love these guys

all this fineness…

If I was in the same space as one of these men I’d have palpitations

If I was in the same place as both, I would spontaneously combust.

Brilliant, sexy, talented me looking all fine with themselves. *grabby hands*

Oh, lord Jesus, it’s a fire

really interested in seeing this movie. plus, these are two fine brothas ;-) 

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Gordon Parks: Harlem Family Revisited (1968)

Beautiful photography. Great narrative through pictures.

 http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/05/gordon-parks-harlem-family-revisited/

cocobaby23:

medeaismyfavourite:

babyslime:

dumbthingswhitepplsay:

siddharthasmama:

thequilentone:

knowledgeequalsblackpower:

June, 1964. Black children integrate the swimming pool of the Monson Motel. To force them out, the owner pours acid into the water.

And white folk wonder why

My mom was born in ‘64, kay? So, what that means is… THIS SHIT WASN’T THAT LONG AGO AND Y’ALL NEED TO STOP ACTING LIKE THE SHIT WE TALK ABOUT IS ARCHAIC AND OLD-HAT.

my mom was still in trinidad when this happened but seriously it could’ve happened to either my aunt or uncle who were 12 and 15/16 respectively

I think photos like this need to exist, not because I like the subject matter, but because it helps immortalize events that many people want to forget ever happened (and work pretty hard to make it so). It makes us face it. I’ve seen this picture before, but don’t know all the details. I hope the children in this photo were okay.

I’m always going to reblog photos like this. People are always like “Oh just get over it already”. Well, no.

No.

Reblogging this picture AGAIN. Because NEVER FORGET.

don’t run away from history, run to it and learn from it. 

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brashblacknonbeliever:

Dear white people who love definitions,

Stop saying that word means an “ignorant person regardless of race” or that it “only applies to some Black people.” You’re fucking wrong.

You people love pulling out dictionary definitions whenever someone utters the word racism, so why won’t you stick with the dictionary definition of this word?

Sincerely,
A Black woman who is sick of your shit.

yepp 

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reginasworld:

Recently The Gordon Parks Foundation discovered over 70 unpublished photographs by Parks at the bottom of an old storage box wrapped in paper and marked as “Segregation Series.” These never before series of images not only give us a glimpse into the everyday life of African Americans during the 50′s but are also in full color, something that is uncommon for photographs from that era.

this is so historical. amazing. wow. 

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I need to buy this book forreal. 

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