“Young, gifted and black!Oh what a lovely precious dream… To be young, gifted and black! Open your heart to what I mean…” - Nina Simone CARTER™️ Magazine carter-mag.com #wherehistoryandhiphopmeet #historyandhiphop365 #cartermagazine #carter #ninasimone #younggiftedandblack #blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #history #blacktwitter #staywoke https://www.instagram.com/p/ClQsRkyLLpj/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

"I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all. I do not belong to the sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given [us] a lowdown dirty deal and whose feelings are all hurt about it. Even in the helter-skelter skirmish that is my life, I have seen that the world is to the strong regardless of a little pigmentation more or less. No, I do not weep at the world—I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife." Zore Neale Hurston, c.1940

The GRADUATE.💙🤍👑💛

Peace to the #rebelreaders... for #READINGistheREVOLUTION. Peace to @onyxedition and the #blackbookstagrammers that support #blackownedbookstores. This is for the #blackbookstagram and those that plan #blackbookstoretours. We're just here to chant #MorePOWERTOTHEREADER! ✊🏾 and affirm: #BLACKPUBLISHINGPOWER is the solution. As #fREADom is first birthed in the mind... We appear here and there to help #shakeupyourshelves, Flood your timeline with #blackexcellence, And challenge the quo to put #blackauthors on the shelf. #youknowthevibes at #scribesandvibes, This is where you #findyourtribe And discover #KNOWledgeofSELF. You can catch us on a #popupbookshop promo or #shopscribesandvibes online. If nothing else, we ask: Why them Willie Lynch isms got you walking around freely with your mind imprisoned? Why they poison us with radio and television? Why the need to effeminate the Black male in tell-lie-vision depictions? Why'd that white magazine advertise Future: The Best Rapper Alive on the cover of it's May edition? Why they wanna indoctrinate the #YOUNGGIFTEDANDBLACK with bleak futures filled with addiction and prison? Why must ye be forced to #readBannedBooks while mass media is publicizing drug addiction and womanizing to our children? It's time to change the frequency! Why they wanna force feed us negative images of self so frequently? Why do they censor #BlackWriters then author laws to put our babies in prison? What do they gain from keeping your mind imprisoned? What does it mean when they say they vow to keep woke politics out of public school systems? #staywOke! and keep one eye open whenever the guys behind the eye in the sky coin phrases to signal dog whistles for Blacks. Learn to listen to what's not being said in catchphrases like "Take Our Country Back." Why do you think Critical Race Theory is under attack yet no mentions of disparities within the juvenile justice system? #FREEYOURMIND! They're pushing this BIPOC agenda to efface #blackpublishing professionals right before our face, Yet we're not having it this time. By the way, Happy #IndieBookstoreDay! This time, we'll #FREEtheMIND! -Stevie #READINGisaREVOLUTIONaryact https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc-ioBfLzwX/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

So grateful to my Mother for introducing me to her friend Eunice who turned out to be the great @ninasimone who’s birthday is today, February 21st. They went to school together in North Carolina. Her voice and career is legendary. Her complex story compelling and poignant. A brilliant artist and civil rights icon. #happybirthday #ninasimone #younggiftedandblack #northcarolina (at Tryon, North Carolina) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqDsIsPp0l4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

What would I be doing if I couldn’t sing, you ask? I really don’t know! It’s my passion, my gift and what I love to do! Thank you God for this ability 🙏🏽 #grateful #singer #iSing #vocalist #artist #younggiftedandblack (at Washington D.C.) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp8Za3wu4tK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

🙏🏾 Gratitude Post 🙏🏾 S/o, love, respect, love & light to my damn near blood brother @billionairepa • Talk about #StratedFromTheBottomNowWereHere We are a true testament and witnesses of “Speaking Things Into Existence!” When we met, my Bro was homeless, sleeping in his car. From my couch we became roommates. From roommates we became Brothers. From Brothers we became Business Partners. From Business partners HE became my mentor (probably doesn’t even know it). I’m grateful for our friendship and brotherhood. We’ve shared so many experiences together, like traveling the World, and starting our businesses, just to name a few. We’ve grown together and we’ve even been baptized together in #SeaOfGallilee real talk, ain’t dat right @nowthatsmajor 🙏🏾🧡). • Not only am I thankful for our friendship and business relationship, I’m eternally grateful for @billionairepa teaching me how to become a millionaire and more; creating and building generational wealth!!! Now it’s our mission to share the knowledge (WEALTH), that you may become financially free as well (and it’s not jus in money)! Check out @wealthyuniversecity #TapIn and begin your journey today. You’ll thank us in as little two days, and that’s a promise. • Back to my brother @billionairepa, I honor and celebrate you my forever roommate and Brother!!! @billionairepa Love you to LIFE!!! #WEALTHY • #BlackBoyJoy #WealthyMinds #YoungGiftedAndBlack #GenerationalWealth #Wealth #Knowledge #KnowledgeIsPower #EducatedBlackMen #WealthBlackMen #WealthyMen #MyMindIsWealthy #BillionairePA #ChrisGees (at Miami, Florida) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpbEgYLO4MH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

❤️‍🔥 The High Priestess of SouL Nina Simone

Gone baby!! That HBCU energy start young! Take them babies to the Classics & homecoming so they can see some intentional community love and envision themselves there! 💛💛 Reposted from @hbcuprepschool We’re walking into Black Music Month like @thelifeandtimesofflyguykhai 💂🏾‍♀️💃🏿🎸. 🎥: @sothorotv via @su_humanjukebox @thelifeandtimesofflyguykhai #blackmusicmonth #hbcumade #hbcubound #hbcukids #hbcu #hbcusmatter #hbcubands #drummajor #drumline #southernuniversity #southernuniversityband #humanjukebox #futurejukes #wheniwalkthrough #hbcuprepschool #younggiftedandblack #blackboyjoy #blackboys #blackboymagic #blackkids #blackculture #blackcommunity #subr https://www.instagram.com/p/CfAc_uIgTNZ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Went to the lovely #AltheaMcNish exhibition. So many gorgeous #textiles! And what a pioneering woman! #heroes #artists #fabrics #libertylondon #williammorrisgallery #younggiftedandblack (at William Morris Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdcwmNSDaPP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

newsone_official Happy 90th birthday to Nina Simone!

Did you know “To Be Young, Gifted and Black” was written in memory of playwright and writer Lorraine Hansberry. The title of the song is named after Hansberry’s autobiographical play “To Be Young, Gifted and Black: Lorraine Hansberry in her Own Words.”

🎥: @ninasimone

#ninasimone #newsonesocial #blackhistorymonth #lorrainehansberry #younggiftedandblack

KHLOË ANN TIMMER 🇭🇹

By Ady Timmer

“Practice as if it's competition, but compete as if it's practice.” – Peter Vidmar

From all angles @khloetimmerofficial

#IAMACHAMPION

#khloetimmer

#HaitianAmerican

#Gymnastics

#Medalist

#RepresentingHAITI

#fierce #Gifted

#Haïti

#younggiftedandblack

#womensgymnastics

#HaitilegendsSports

#Repost @boombox.essentials.hiphop with @let.repost

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BIG DADDY KANE - YOUNG, GIFTED AND BLACK

Release: 1989

Producer: Prince Paul

Album: It’s A Big Daddy Thing

Label: Cold Chillin

Sample: Albert King “I’ll Play The Blues For You”

#bigdaddykane #younggiftedandblack #princepaul #itsabigdaddything #coldchillin #albertking #illplaythebluesforyou #hiphop1989

@officialbigdaddykane

@djprincepaul

*I do not own or claim the rights to the music or video

*Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favour of fair use.

We'd like to take a moment to wish our beloved #highpriestessofsoul a Happy Birthday... Happy Birthday Ms. Nina Simone! We celebrate you and your contributions to #BlackClassicalMusic and #BlackLiberation. Thank you for the effervescent presence of #blackexpression embodied in your artistic expression; #thepowerofyourvoice in the fight for #civilrights shall resound forever and a day amid the #younggiftedandblack. -#scribesandvibes • #therebirthofcool • #NinaSimone • #pianist / #singer / #songwriter / #musicalarranger / #activist • #HappyBirthday ・・・ #vibewise: My skin is Black My arms are long My hair is woolly My back is strong Strong enough to take the pain Inflicted again and again ‐#MissSimone as written and performed on #FourWomen https://www.instagram.com/p/Co8dfYUAVFJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

I was really rooting for ya ⠀ ⠀⠀ #iambamross ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ #beardedblackmen #plussizemalemodel #fashionnovamen #dance #bodypositive #effyourbeautystandards #dancer #grooving #isolations #plussizemenfashion #loveblack #freestyle #lookoftheday #brawnsquad #blogger #beardgangtakeover #younggiftedandblack #goldenconfidence (at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRpIDWCrK_4/?utm_medium=tumblr