#spelman

[soon-palestine]

#palestine #gaza #free palestine #spelman

[detroitlib]

View of Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument and city hall. Pedestrians walk by as a street-car travels the road. Horse-drawn vehicles are also shown. Printed on front: "Soldiers' Monument and City Hall, Detroit, Mich." Printed on back: "Soldiers' Monument and City Hall, Detroit, Mich. The Soldiers' Monument towers to a height of 60 feet. The body is of granite and statues are golden bronze. It was completed in 1881 and cost $70,000. In the tower of the City Hall is located the second largest clock in the world. Published by Wolverine News Co., Detroit, Mich. Made in U.S.A." Handwritten on back: "I will be over at Clapham next Thursday. Have promised to spend the day with Mrs. Spelman. Will look in and see you on my way, about 12 o'clock. Love from Nellie." Card is postmarked September 18, 1913.

Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

#guess how many followers! #soldiers' and sailors' monument #detroit #detroit history #monuments #postcards #vintage #vintage postcards #1913 #wolverine news co. #spelman #nellie #detroit public library

[petervintonjr]

Everybody say hello to Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons: activist, teacher, and researcher. Born in 1944 Memphis, Gwendolyn was the first generation in her family to attend college (Spelman, 1962). She credits her grandmother, Rhonda Bell Robinson, with having instilled in her the family's history and its reckoning with slavery, her own hardships growing up as a sharecropper, and how Mississippi was objectively the "worst of the worst" for Black people. Gwendolyn solemnly promised her grandmother that she would never go to Mississippi. (And don't even get her started on the epic confrontations with teachers and school officials about the "inappropriateness of her hair." Boy, it's sure nice that that sort of racial dress-code pettiness isn't a thing anymore, huh?)

In the 1960's, inspired by several Spelman professors (to include Howard Zinn), Gwendolyn actively and enthusiastically became involved in the SNCC against her family's wishes. She participated in sit-ins and endured several arrests, ultimately jeopardizing her Spelman scholarship. She helped prepare curricula for Freedom Schools and coordinated mock voter registrations, working under Bob Moses (see Lesson 112 in this series) and alongside James Forman and her fellow Spelman alum Ruby Doris Smith-Robinson (see Lesson 66). Eventually she came into the orbit of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, and ultimately found herself taking over as director of the Mississippi Summer Project in 1964 when its previous director, Lester McKinney, had been picked up by Laurel police. She herself was arrested in Jackson following a march; being held, beaten and tortured for 15 days in a makeshift prison constructed on the county fairgrounds.

Gwendolyn later moved briefly to New York, and then to Atlanta where she worked on Julian Bond's state campaign (see Lesson 72). She continued to work with the local chapter of the SNCC, authoring a controversial position paper on Black Power that argued against expelling its white members. Around this time Gwendolyn also (unsurprisingly) found herself on the FBI's notorious Counterintelligence Program (COINTELPRO) target list. Inspired by the speeches of Malcolm X, Gwendolyn joined Nation Of Islam in the late 1960's and changed her name to Zoharah (also taking her husband Michael Simmons' last name), and moved to Philadelphia. However her strong feminist principles contravened a number of NOI teachings, putting her at odds with the organization's stance on women as submissive helpmeets. Over the next 20 years she worked for the American Friends Service Committee, travelling to Jordan, Egypt, Syria, and (significantly) Palestine.

Gwendolyn retired from the University of Florida in 2019; conducting and leading research that explores Islamic feminism and the cultural impact of Sharia law on Muslim women. Today Simmons is senior lecturer emerita, continuing to travel and lecture on gender equality, and on many other issues affecting Black Americans, feminism, and social inequities. Her and Michael Simmons' daughter Aishah Shahidah Simmons, is herself an accomplished documentary filmmaker. (Teachers: Need some resources to engage your students this Black History Month? I'll send you a pile of these trading cards, no cost, no obligation. Just give me a mailing address and let me know how many students in your class. No strings attached, no censorship, no secret-relaying-of-names to Abbott or DeSantis or HuckaSanders.)

#black lives matter #gwendolyn zoharah simmons #black history month #mississippi goddamn #spelman #sncc #nation of islam #feminism #teachtruth

[kaicor3]

Graphic Design work I did for the Atlanta University Center's Modeling Agency

Adobe Illustrator and Procreate

Photography by Kollin Washington (kollinwashingtonphotography.com)

March - April 2023

#design #graphic design #spelman #spelman graduate #spelman college #my art #logo design #flyer design

[joliepasproductions]

#angelina jolie #actress #movie star #Spelman #Zahara Jolie

[thejaguartour]

Victoria Monét via Instagram:

“College tribe! I’m going on an #HBCU tour right quick! 🔥 See you at your homecoming @howard1867 #HUHC23 and #SpelHouse @spelman_college @morehouse1867 It’s about to go UP!!! Can’t wait to see youuuu 🤎🎶✨💫#HBCYOU #PGEveryday @proctergamble #GrowUpGlowUppartner ✨🎉"

#victoria monét #victoriamonet #victoria monet #black girl magic #black women #beyonce #hot celebs #black tumblr #jaguar 2 #hbcu #hbculove #hbcusmatter #hbcuhomecoming #howard university #morehouse #spelman #hbcyou #hbcus #hbculife #homecoming #spelhouse #college #college life #jaguar #jaguar tour #the jaguar tour #rnb singer #r&b artist #hbcufootball #homecoming 2023

[angryrdpanda]

Sign

#Free Palestine #Morehouse #Clark Atlanta #Spelman #Morris Brown #HBCU #hbculove #hbcugrad #hbcualumni #boycott divest sanction #Black Tumblr #Palestine #Gaza #Free Gaza #israel is a terrorist state #israeli occupation

[ajexquisitely]

Spelman College new president Dr. Helene Gayle with Angelina Jolie ✨

#angelina jolie #spelman #spelmanmom #hbcu

[brydollasign]

1985 Morehouse College Homecoming featuring Newark, NJ’s Whitney Houston

#morehouse #morehouse college #spelman college #spelman #hbcu #hbcupride #homecoming #hbcuhomecoming #spelhouse #Spelhouse homecoming #whitney houston #black culture #college days #school days

[howtodisppear]

love a black woman from infinity to infinityyy

#black woman beauty #black beauty #light academism #love a black woman from infinity to infinityyyy #ralph lauren #spelman #black coquette

[queenie435]

Spelman College circa 1900 💙

#spelman #spelman college #1900s #old phography #old photo #black people #black excellence #women of color #black women #black history is everybody's history

[africanamericanreports]

NBA legend Charles Barkley is known for his generous donations and a metro Atlanta university is his latest recipient.

Spelman College will receive $1 million donation from Barkley.

#spelman #spelman college #charles barkley #education #hbcu #hbcus

[people-and-politics]

I love how Angelina has always nurtured the diversities of her adopted kids instead of having them conform to assimilate in society and ignore their roots of who they are.

#angelina jolie #adoption #zahara #celebrities #spelman #hbcu

[joliepasproductions]

Angie and Zahara at Spelhouse homecoming

#angelina jolie #movie star #actress #zahara jolie pitt #spelman #HBCU #spelman college

[lamajaoscura]

#morehouse college #hbcu #howard #spelman

[boricuacherry-blog]

*fuck Nelly's rapist ass. He was the one who chose to pull out, because he didn't want to allow the Spelman girls to confront him about his lyrics....that's on his dumbass*

#spelman #nelly #article #2013 #tf