Head King

Your uncle fell in love with an American woman. They had a child. The hardships he saw there radicalized your uncle.

CrowdFunding: Astronaut Starbright #TheLittleMermaidChallenge

“Hi, my name is Taylor Richardson. Some know me as Astronaut StarBright advocating to bring more girls especially girls of color to STEM. Many others know me for my movie screening challenges like Hidden Figures and A Wrinkle In Time, that brought hundreds of thousands of youth and their families across the world to see black women and Black girls represented in STEM and girl empowered themes. I have always believed if you can see it you can be it. 

This is why I am raising funds for 1,000 Black girls to see the upcoming Disney film The Little Mermaid, that will have its first Black mermaid princess Ariel, played by Halle Bailey. The goal is simple, to allow Black girls to see themselves and to know that we too can and will be part of that world! 

So I hope you will join me and donate to my campaign. Better yet, start your own #littlemermaidchallenge at a theater in your community! 

Let’s bring Black girl magic across the world come May 26, 2023!

See ya under the sea,Taylor”

Check it out at  gofundme

Thomas “Blind Tom” Wiggins (1849 – 1908) was an American pianist and composer.He had numerous original compositions published and had a lengthy and largely successful performing career throughout the United States.

Thomas Greene Wiggins was born  to Mungo and Charity Wiggins, slaves on a Georgia plantation. He was blind and autistic but a musical genius with a phenomenal memory. In 1850 Tom, his parents, and two brothers were sold to James Neil Bethune, a lawyer and newspaper editor in Columbus, Georgia. Young Tom was fascinated by music and other sounds, and could pick out tunes on the piano by the age of four. He made his concert debut at eight, performing in Atlanta.

In 1859, at the age of 10, he became the first African American performer to play at the White House when he gave a concert before President James Buchanan.

Keep reading at  blackpast.org

Check out Strange Fruit, Volume II: More Uncelebrated Narratives from Black History (2018) by  Joel Christian Gill 

Black Panther: Deadliest of the Species (2010)  

Black Panther (Shuri)

Story: Reginald Hudlin, art: Ken Lashley

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Ousmane Sembène (1923 - 2007)

Crossing the geographical and national borders of his native Senegal, Ousmane Sembene’s literary and cinematographic output places him today as the “father” of African films and as one of the most prolific “French-speaking” African writers in this first century of “creative” writing in francophone Africa.

“Europe is not my centre, and  I’m less concerned about the success of my films there…why be a sunflower & turn toward the sun? I myself am the sun"