Happy B'earthday to these two incomparable women: the multi-talented dancer, director, choreographer, teacher, philanthropist @therealdebbieallen (my hero); and the smoldering singer-songwriter fashion icon @sade (my idol)!!!
🎥 Sade Live 2011 No Ordinary Love (reposted from @flashbackvinil)
🎥 Debbie's dance routine as teacher Lydia Grant in the 1980's TV show fame (reposted from youtube).
I love this women right here. Thank you @lovedevineart & @lovedevineart from TikTok for sharing your are. Let the commission race begin. #blackartist #blackcontentcreators #blackbrilliance #blackcreativity #blackgirlmagic #blackmotherhood #strongblackwoman #totalpackage #istandwithyou #iseeyou #iloveyou https://www.instagram.com/p/CgSPyaePy9C/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
It's Sunday - and that means it's Str8FiyahTV Sundayz Raid Train!
Today's lineup UK Times
3pm - 5pm UK https://www.twitch.tv/just__joe_
5pm - 7pm UK https://www.twitch.tv/djgetdown_chgo
7pm - 9pm UK https://www.twitch.tv/dj_realll
11pm - 1am UK https://www.twitch.tv/killagreenbeatz
1am - 3am https://www.twitch.tv/DJ_BigEdSmith
IF YOU ARE IN EST
10am - 12pm EST https://www.twitch.tv/just__joe_
12pm - 2pm EST https://www.twitch.tv/djgetdown_chgo
2pm - 4pm EST https://www.twitch.tv/dj_realll
6pm - 8pm https://www.twitch.tv/killagreenbeatz
8pm - 10pm https://www.twitch.tv/DJ_BigEdSmith
Come and join the Str8Fiyah DJs and mods every Sunday on Twitch
#Str8FiyahTV #STr8FiyahSundays #housemusic #DJjust_joe #djgetdown_chgo #dj_realll #killagreenbeatz #dj_BigEdSmith #globalfamilysupport #twitchmusic #twitchdjs #twitchmusic #twitch #blackbrilliance
#BlackBrilliance: Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson are the two high school students from New Orleans, Louisiana have reportedly solved an “impossible” math problem. The genius girl duo presented their research at a recent conference where they were the only high schoolers in attendance.
Johnson and Jackson are students of St. Mary’s Academy in New Orleans. They showcased their research, discussing how they had proven Pythagoras’s theorem by using trigonometry without circular logic. It was a discovery that countless mathematicians around the world believed to be impossible for over 2,000 years.
Large-scale custom built interactive art installations, Community Impact Award, a signature fragrance, an exhibition of 50 Black male artists, street art and fashion showcase, live band, DJ, live performances, and a building radiating with BLACK BRILLIANCE! This was the 3rd Marvelous @blackboyartshow in partnership with Black Men Smile. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! More Highlights to come! —- #blackmensmile #blackboyartshow #blackartists #blackart #blackhistory #blackownedbusiness #fortheculture #blackbrilliance https://www.instagram.com/p/CL8EmMegCXc/?igshid=7vdd9ril7laf
#RipPaulMooney 🙏🏾🕊💔 Paul Mooney was a fearless and brilliant truthsayer and genius. He was dangerously sharp and quick witted and I-can’t-breathe, laugh-til-you-cry funny. Think of any other comedian that people were actually afraid of. That’s how dangerous he was because he spoke the truth so unapologetically without fear and never held his tongue for NUHBADDY. And he loved black people as much as he hated racism... that combination is dangerous in America. This might sound weird but he always reminded me of Tupac, Pretty yet acid, briliiant and talented and unabashedly pro black. #Rip to Legend 🖤🖤🖤🙏🏾🎙 The comedy world is in mourning today as Paul Mooney (born Paul Gladney) has passed away at the age of 79 from a heart attack. Mooney wrote some of Pryor's routines for his appearance on Saturday Night Live, co-wrote his material for the Live on the Sunset Strip, Bicentennial Ni**er, and Is It Something I Said albums, and Pryor's film Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling. As the head writer for The Richard Pryor Show, he gave many young comics, such as Robin Williams, Sandra Bernhard, Marsha Warfield, John Witherspoon, and Tim Reid, their first break into show business. Mooney also wrote for Redd Foxx's Sanford and Son and Good Times, acted in several cult classics including Which Way Is Up?, Bustin' Loose, Hollywood Shuffle, and portrayed singer/songwriter Sam Cooke in The Buddy Holly Story. He was the head writer for the first year of Fox's In Living Color, inspiring the character Homey D. Clown, played by Damon Wayans. Mooney later went on to play Wayans' father in the Spike Lee film Bamboozled as the comedian Junebug. Mooney initially appeared in the sketches "Ask a Black Dude" and "Mooney at the Movies" on Comedy Central's Chappelle's Show. He later appeared as Negrodamus, an African American version of Nostradamus. Mooney most recently acted in BET’s Real Husbands of Hollywood, a parody of reality television, and was in 2016’s Meet the Blacks. In November 2014, Paul's brother announced that Mooney has prostate cancer. #rippaulmooney #ComedicGenius #unapologeticallyblack #BlackVoicesMatter #blackbrilliance https://www.instagram.com/p/CPEPluCFbWh/?utm_medium=tumblr
I heard it’s Black Botanists Week and I want to get in on the action. My name is Mountain Mic and I’m new to being a plant dad (because I don’t want the responsibility of a pet and/or child). I’m a hiker and avid traveler (I own a Hiking+Travel business). Say hey back 🙋🏽♂️ . . . . . #blackplantlove #plantinteractions #bipocinnature #botanizingwhileblack #botany101 #blackbrilliance #idhikethat #blackproud #botany #nature #blackinnature #blackeveryday #diversityoutdoors #ncstateparks #blackhikersweek #togetheroutside #motherafrica #getoutandhike #wehiketoo #blackpower✊🏾 #sweatydirtyhappy #optoutdoors #blackispower #blackgirlshike #hikingwhileblack #botany101 #blackpeoplehike #seekmorewilderness #iloveblackwomen #blackpeoplewhohike https://www.instagram.com/p/CCUyePAJF-y/?igshid=mqe10bwc47ue
“Black women have worked hard to write a counternarrative of our worth in a global system where beauty is the only legitimate capital allowed women without legal, political, and economic challenge. That last bit is important. Beauty is not good capital. It compounds the oppression of gender. It constrains those who identify as women against their will. It costs money and demands money. It colonizes. It hurts. It is painful. It can never be fully satisfied. It is not useful for human flourishing. Beauty is, like all capital, merely valuable. Because it is valuable, black women have said that we are beautiful too. We have traveled the cultural imaginations of the worlds nonwhite people assembling a beauty construct that does not exclude us. We create culture with our beauty. We negotiate with black men to legitimize our beauty. We try to construct something that feels like liberation in an inherently oppressive regime, balancing peace with our marginally more privileged lighter skinned black women while refuting the global caste status of darker skinned black women. Some of us try to include multiple genders and politics in our definition of beauty. This kind of work requires discursive loyalty. We must name it and claim it, because naming is about the only unilateral power we have.” - In The Name of Beauty ⭐️👌🏿
Re-reading some of my favorite passages from the awesome book, THICK AND OTHER ESSAYS written by the brilliant Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom - in excitement and anticipation of this month’s meetup, which features the author, scholar and professor discussing her writing and work. Happening on Sunday, June 30th at MOCADA museum. The Free Black Women’s Library will be open from noon to 5, and our conversation begins at 2p. All are welcome to come check out and trade books by Black women and take part in the conversation. See you then!! I’m so excited!! 🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿☺️☺️☺️☺️