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please don't buy keffiyah from unknown sources
for example: lots of keffiyah are being sold on amazon by chinese fast fashion companies
please buy keffiyah from palestinian sources
here is an example
here is another
if you can't for some reason, please consider the most ethical choice you possibly can, or just donating the money you would have spent on one to a gaza supporting organization instead
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Colleen Madamombe (1964 - 2009)
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ATLANTIQUE (2019) dir. MATI DIOP
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Gendertrash From Hell was a quarterly zine run by Mirha-Soleil Ross and Xanthra Phillippa, intended to “give a voice to genderqueers, who’ve been discouraged from speaking out and communicating with each other.”
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On April 6th in Hoodoo History: The New York City Slave Revolt of 1712 🔥✊🏾
23 enslaved Afrikans set fire to NYC one year after the slave trade markets officially opened by the East River on Wall Street.
• On the night of April 6th, 1712, 23 Afrikans armed themselves with swords, knives, guns - laced with prayer & faith - and fire against White Slavers in the streets of NYC. They set an outhouse ablaze at the home of Peter Van Tilborough on Maiden Lane, at what was then the northern edge of Manhattan. They then picked off any White Slavers nearby who tried to stop it, from the cover of darkness. 9 Slavers were killed and 6 others were injured by nights end.
• On the following morning, the Governor of NY ordered two militias to "drive the island" aka capture & kill the rebels. 6 Afrikans took their lives in protest. The rest were burned alive or "broken" at the wheel. This unprecedented event hitting the streets of NYC quickly spurred the NY State Assembly to pass an act that would permit Slavers to punish Afrikans to the extreme measures by "not extending to life or member", thus cementing a new precedent for their cruelty in the North. In addition, Slavers would now be required to pay $200 dollars in security fees to the State & annuity for any freed Afrikans. Despite these stringent laws, NYC would see more slave rebellions in the next two decades; the next being in 1741.
To be of Hoodoo is, and has always been, to fight back. Let this be a reminder, forever to be drilled into our psyches: We been fighting. We been sacrificing. We been spiriting. We been victorious.
Today, 83 Maiden Lane sits in the infamous Financial District of Manhattan & now serves as the headquarters of the AHRC (Association of Help for Retarded Children). But beneath the cloak of modern amenities & reconstructive efforts, the once-scorched Earth still remembers the night of April 6th. This is where we made our stand. This, & the streets along the northern edge of Manhattan, is a place of power.
It is important to remember the when & WHERE of this event (and those that followed) as many to this day falsely believe that the North was somehow the righteous exception to the Eurocentric cruelties of Maafa. The North was not the exception then & is not the exception now. May we:
• Meditate on the cost of true freedom that these Ancestors paid in blood so we wouldn't have to.
• Pour libations for them, especially those of us residing on or near the Financial District, as this is where our Ancestors were bought & sold from the docks on the East River to Wall Street.
• Remember our plight & presence in the Northern states that have lightened their reputation with the mask of progressive thinking.
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I just realized that the song “Sunny Came Home” is about a mother getting her kids out of the house as she prepares to burn it down with her abusive husband inside
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A woman of the Umm Jalul nomads, Foothills of Jebel Marra, Darfur - Sudan, 1965
From #SudaneseCulture #ثقافة_سودانية
By:Gunnar Haaland
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the very rare phenomenon of a volcano producing vapor rings/volcanic vortex rings. Mount Etna today (April 5, 2024) by Boris Behncke
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Source: Love in the Sahel by Harvey Lilley. October 08, 2001.
In the Sahel, the semi-arid border between the Sahara and the savanna, people mark the passage of time with ceremony and tradition. As the hot sun beats down on the Niger River delta, the annual Fulani cattle drive is underway. Young Yero Cisse must leave his family and travel hundreds of miles across parched earth with his family’s cattle in search of adequate grazing land. As he travels through the desolate landscape, he and his fellow herders must survive on milk, and what little they can trade in the widely scattered villages of the Sahel.
National Geographic Social Studies
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"rest in power" is for black people who have lost their lives to antiblack violence. we shouldnt have to keep saying this and you all shouldnt keep ignoring us.
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