Paintings by Thota Vaikuntam, South Indian artist from Telangana, India

dyin

I hope she is living her best life right now. 

this is from an amazing documentary called “Black Panthers: Vanguards of the Revolution” and I highly recommend it to everyone

Memoir Of Abandoned Art.

Old Damascus-Syria.

Black Royalty in the Now

Next Wednesday Dining with Dana will be covering “Rococoa”, discussing black royalty in the niche subculture and the importance it holds today. Join in on Wednesday 14th in The Scene!

First picture by Fabiola Jean-Louis, Rewriting History

Rococoa and the Frivolous Fro (article)

2nd photo is fashion photography afaik, ‘Black and White’ by Robert Flammier (German, I believe, so perhaps I’m limited by language on this one)

The 3rd photo is also one of Fabiola Jean-Louis’s paper dresses, although I don’t recognize the specific photograph.

Fourth photo is hard to find source for because I think it’s possibly been cropped at some point, but ended up in some odd places

Fifth Photo is from Kehinde Wiley’s Economy of Grace: https://www.thecut.com/2015/02/kehinde-wiley-spring-portfolio.html

6th photo I believe may have been someone’s personal Halloween or reenactment costume based of of the character Calypso from Pirates of the Caribbean (and ended up posted on Pinterest at some point)

7th photo is Jimmy Jean-Louis & Aïssa Maïga in ‘Toussaint Louverture’ (2012)

The last photo is “Elegance” by PorcelainPoet on DeviantArt

if anyone knows more accurate sources for #2, #4, and #6, feel free to add them!

You’re a fool if you think science is anything but a human endeavour. Politics aka the issues and ideologies we face as humans will always be apart of our science.

- Cathryn

@gejha  submitted:

I couldn’t find out much more about the book or the author either, but the illustrations are fairly consistent with similar books on magic and alchemy I’ve seen. Here’s the link to the Res Obscura article: http://resobscura.blogspot.co.at/2011/05/key-of-hell-eighteenth-century-sorcery.html

destroy the idea that angels are blonde and blue eyed and fair skinned !!! destroy the idea of holy imagery consisting only of white people !!!

iirc this is actually one of thomas blackshear’s main subject matters! so check out his stuff if ur interested

I’m sorry, but that first picture? Whoa.

Black Girl Magic

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Orleans by Sherri L Smith

Iron Cast by Destiny Soria

Is You Okay? by GloZell Green

Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina by Michaela Deprince and Elaine Deprince

The Steep & Thorny Way by Cat Winters

Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson

This Side Of Home by Renee Watson

When Morning Comes by Arushi Raina

Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor

Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon

American Street by Ibi Zoboi

Goldie Vance by Hope Larson, Brittney Williams

Shiny Broken Pieces A Tiny Pretty Things by Sona Charaipotra, Dhonielle Clayton

Stone Mirrors The Sculpture & Silence of Edmonia Lewis by Jeannine Atkins

Shadowshaper Cypher 02 Shadowhouse Falls by Daniel Jos Older

The Summer Prince by Alaya Dawn Johnson

The Game of Love and Death by Martha Brockenbrough

#BlackGirlMagic ✨📚

Three years into the water crisis

And nobody gives a sh*t

i only heard about this 2 months ago. its been 3 years????

Remember this started because Snyder switched Flint from a freshwater mountain lake to the polluted Flint River simply to allow his wife’s company to use the lake for bottling instead. This is a manufactured crisis of corruption and capitalism.

Also remember that the pipes corroded because they refused to pay for the chemical used to make the water less acidic.

Remember that when the first E. coli outbreak from the water popped up, the city hall was given water coolers by the state, free of charge, all while denying that the water could be unsafe to drink.

Remember that, despite having a huge budget surplus and a “rainy day fund,” set aside that could easily cover the cost of relocating the residents by buying their houses/paying their debt, or could cover a large chunk of the cost of replacing the pipes, the state has decided to continue to only put in the minimal amount of effort.

Remember that flint is majority POC, majority impoverished, and is still being faced with crippling water bills from the Detroit water supply company, where they are often charged $50 a month just to use the service, on top of the cost of their water bill.

Remember that there will now be an entire generation of children who will now be damaged by lead poisoning and damage from the multitude of neurotoxins.

Remember that this is what privatized natural resources looks like. Remember that these people are being punished for having the audacity to dare to be poor in an economy that won’t let them be anything but.

At every level, this has not been a mistake.

The State and City are most upset that people know its happening and are resisting nation-wide.

But if we lose focus they lose even the small amount of aid they’ve managed to get.

This is how they do it. It’s a siege on the public empathy. Eventually we become numb to the problem and despair. Or something bigger happens.

Then its business as usual again.

Don’t forget Flint

Huda Akil (b. 1945) is a Syrian neuroscientist whose research has been instrumental to the understanding of the neurobiology of emotions, pain, depression, and substance abuse. She is a Distinguished Professor of Neurosciences at the University of Michigan.

She obtained her PhD from UCLA, and went on to do laboratory research at Stanford University. She has been President of the Society for Neuroscience, the largest neuroscience organization in the world. She is one of seven scientists who form the Hope For Depression Research Task Force, working to advance the knowledge of depression, its causes and possible treatments.