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Frances Jones-Sneed

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Social Activist dancing to my own music...carrying on the lessons of my ancestors....

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“Who can we get behind that y’all are going to get behind so that we can win?” slate.trib.al/URZXFEF


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Veil and Vow: Aneeka Ayanna Henderson Discusses Marriage in Contemporary Black Culture aaihs.org/veil-and-vow-a… via @AAIHS @BlkPerspectives @ProfTDParry @ProfAHenderson @uncpressblog

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@ProfTDParry 
@ProfAHenderson 

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“If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And white people have a very very serious problem” - Toni Morrison


No, she did not understand. But we do, Toni.

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If you watch ANY video on Dr. King today, watch this. You won't find this on any conservatives page, as they're too busy diluting his condemnation of white privilege. But this is one of his most memorable. #MLKDay


😍

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Black Love!

Hi, I’m me. And when I found out film scholars announced today that they restored an **1898** microfilm they believe is the earliest cinematic depiction of African-American love did you fucking think that I *wouldn’t* immediately score it using IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK?



See this Instagram photo by @wellreadblackgirl instagram.com/p/Bp2OY-sDrX_/…


One of my favorite poets.

Next Thursday (10.11) from 2-4pm we invite you to join us for Listening to Art. Award-winning poet Patricia Smith @pswordwoman will read selections from her recent book, Incendiary Art, revealing what is frightening—and what is revelatory—about race and history today.

CAAMinLA's tweet image. Next Thursday (10.11) from 2-4pm we invite you to join us for Listening to Art. Award-winning poet Patricia Smith @pswordwoman will read selections from her recent book, Incendiary Art, revealing what is frightening—and what is revelatory—about race and history today.


And we are going to stay....

can't stop no can't stop me can't stop us now me now no no me now no way to get in my way get out my way we coming we here now @ntozakeshange1 2018



Farewell Queen.

can't stop no can't stop me can't stop us now me now no no me now no way to get in my way get out my way we coming we here now @ntozakeshange1 2018



Miracles happen every day.....

As to me I know of nothing else but miracles —Walt Whitman, born #OTD in 1819 poets.org/poetsorg/poet/…

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—Walt Whitman, born #OTD in 1819 poets.org/poetsorg/poet/…


Some Did Choose to Return to Slavery Because They Chose Family Over Everything theroot.com/some-did-choos… via @TheRoot


Here's Ta-Nehisi Coates on Kanye West championing a kind of freedom—"a white freedom, freedom without consequence, freedom without criticism, freedom to be proud and ignorant"—in the age of Donald Trump theatlantic.com/entertainment/…


Without slavery, there would be no U.S. as we know it.


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