That’s all the way fucked up lady should be under the jail. 

This is heartbreaking.

#WhitePrivilege #Injustice  

Hi tumblr!

My name is Monben and I am a 17 year old girl Blacc from Newark, NJ. After four months of hard work, I have officially self-published my first collection of poetry.

Just under 60 pages and inspired by the author’s experience growing up in Newark, NJ, Blacc is a poetic diagram of the complexities of love, intimacy, community, and spirituality as they are filtered through Blackness. Books sold online are marked three dollars up to compensate for residual shipping and handling fees. As a gift to you, your book will be shipped along with a complementary herbal blend crafted to supplement your Wellness. 

You can order a copy here

PLEASE Retweet, share to Facebook, reblog this for me, share whichever way you know best to support me and my art.

Dreamy

Photographer’s IG: @kylebabb

Model: @kingkesia

Stop, turn, look and see Pause, breath, run and dream Stay strong, live and lead Move love across seas ❣️

IG • modern_day_esther

Photographed by Donald Rucker  (instagram @d.ruc_ker)

#NowPlaying Commit by Miraa May

Nikk La, Temple gems (Chongqing, China, 2015)

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Trying to get through life as an adult but this shizzle gets real every second of the day. Everything in 2016 was a struggle but I’m trying my damnedest to make 2017 the year of achievements.

Listen to Still loving you by SIMI #np on #SoundCloud

ittle inspiration, artwork by Jamaican artist Tamara Natalie Madden

Artist Statement Tamara has always felt a connection to ‘everyday folk’, the working class, the unseen and unheard, the true warriors of our time. She realized, however, that many people who may have suffered through a similar struggle, did not want to revisit those struggles. With great thought and consideration for her message, she decided to amend her ideas. Inspired, by the golden period of Gustav Klimt and images of royalty from Egypt and West Africa; she decided to turn regular folk into representations of nobility. It seemed, in her view, to be the only way to allow them to be represented and appreciated for who they were intrinsically; kings, queens and warriors, in their own right, who never had a chance to shine, their austere appearance setting the tone for others to judge them. The embellishments with rich fabrics and gold present an opportunity for these people to be seen. The quilted clothing have a double meaning, on one hand representing a sense of distinction, while also allowing for a bit of nostalgia. The birds in the pieces represent a sense of freedom. It was her way of injecting her personal experiences into each painting and remembering her escape and survival from illness and the dialysis machine.

info via ADA

Mother of George (2013)

dir. Andrew Dosunmu

Zenith, my friends OC

'Close' to finding another Earth? By Suzanne Presto, CNN, cnn.com

Sci­en­tists look­ing for signs of life in the uni­verse -- as well as anoth­er plan­et like our own -- are a lot clos­er to their goal than peo­ple real­ize.

That was the con­sen­sus of a panel on the search for life in the uni­verse held at NA…