#BLACKWOMENPRAY #BLACKMOTHERSPRAY THIS IS A CALL TO SPIRIT ACTION!!!! FOR AFRICAN DESCENDANT WOMEN TO GATHER ON A CALL OF PRAYER FOR 30 MIN FOR THE NEXT 7 DAYS! GIVING PRAISE FOR THE DEMAND OF JUSTICE, RESPECT AND UNITY WITHIN THE PAN-AFRICAN BLACK COMMUNITY! SPREAD THE WORD CALL TIME: EVERY NIGHT AT 9PM EST DATES: STARTING APRIL 30TH ENDING MAY … [Read more...]
When Your Image Is a Symbol of Black Self Hatred
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After an otherwise dynamic weekend where I spoke at the Brown University “Black Hair in White Spaces” event (write up, pics and video coming soon!) and helped facilitate the first “All Sisters Evolving Together ASOMGirls Program Mentoring Day” (yes, this write up is coming too!), I was in my Black Girl Element and was feeling empowered and hopeful about my … [Read more...]
Feminista Jones: Pushing Buttons You Didn’t Know You Had…
A Date Night for the Gawds Last Friday, Hubby and I finally had a date night. We attended the book release party for Feminista Jones’ first novel, Push the Button. Trust me when I say, it was worth paying for the baby sitter and the trip to Harlem. If you’re looking to stretch your boundaries, stimulate your imagination, put some spice into your love life and/or hook your … [Read more...]
Day 6: Kuumba – What Are You Doing for Others – MLK
Day 6: Kuumba Creativity (see day 5 here) "Every [wo/]man must decide whether [s/]he will walk in the creative light of altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgment. Life's persistent and most urgent question is 'What are you doing for others?" Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In this quote Dr. King reminds us that we can live our lives in … [Read more...]
Day 5 – Nia – Purpose – Marcus Garvey
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Day 5: Nia Purpose (Click here for day 4) To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness. Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. Action, self-reliance, the vision of self and the future have been the only means by which the oppressed have seen and realized … [Read more...]