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Trayvon Martin (5 February 1995 – 26 February 2012)

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“A system cannot fail those it was never designed to protect,” April 28, 2015. Photo credit: Does anyone know who took this photo?— in Chicago, Illinois.

“…blackness or “Africanity” should be our first allegiance or our first allegiance should be to ourselves, and we had better begin to understand something about the essential selfishness of survival.”

- John Henrik Clarke -

Buzzfeed: “17 Black Women Who Deserve their own Biopics”

Not enough roles for black women in Hollywood? Let’s make some!

1. Thandie Newton/Alice Walker, 2. Amber Riley/Aretha Franklin, 3. Kerry Washington/Vonetta McGee, 4. Lupita Nyong'o/Grace Jones, 5. Mo'Nique/Hattie McDaniel, 6. Oprah Winfrey/Mary McLeod Bethune, 7. Regina Hall/Moms Mabley, 8. Teyonah Parris/Assata Shakur, 9. Viola Davis/Shirley Chisholm, 10. Jurnee Smollett/Eartha Kitt

BLACK MEN: There’s a time when we got to kill or be killed over something happening to our women. When you don’t have enough love for yourself to protect your women and girls, you are not worthy as a man! • #Farrakhan #10KFearless

Pam Grier poses for a photos in Los Angeles on December 19, 1973. 

Photos by Michael Ochs Archive

“We are still thinking minority, when we were never a minority. But we are letting minority people fool us into thinking minority. And we are literally being controlled by minorities, who endear themselves to other minorities by demonstrating their ability to control us. And they control us by manipulating images through politics and religion in the mass media.”

- John Henrik Clarke -