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Be grateful for the life you were given

Your life was made uniquely for you. Your past experiences have shaped the person you are today. Every challenge, struggle, and triumph got you to this point right here. Everything does happen for a reason.

Try to incorporate mindful activities into your everyday life that makes you more present

Cherish the small things and practice gratitude for everything you have in life

Reflect on what you accomplished

In the age of social media, it can be hard not to get caught up in the feeling that if you are not a millionaire by 21 you’re nothing.

Take stock of the accomplishments you have achieved thus far.

Every accomplishment counts! Whether it’s graduating college or getting promotion from associate level to a specialist level. Not every accomplishment has to be over the top

Trust in your inner voice

Listen to her because she is telling you what you need and she knows you best.

Trust that your instincts are moving you in the right direction.

Stay true to yourself and be clear about your intentions in life

The more you trust in your inner voice, the more your confidence will grow!

Be positive!

Whether we like it or not our thoughts are very powerful so be mindful of the perspective you have of yourself

Your current thoughts will attract similar thoughts. The more you train yourself to look on the bright side, the easier it gets to do it daily

Lincoln’s racism

Transatlantic slave trade

Slave patrols

Homestead act

Real estate steering

Jim crow

Lynching

Ku klux klan

Boston school busing riots

Indian boarding schools

Black codes

Redlining

History of the police

Madison grant

Indian appropriations acts

Immigration act of 1924

The middle passage

The southern strategy

Mass incarceration of black men

History of the gun

The rape of enslaved women

Japanese american internment

Cherokee trail of tears

Human zoos

Chinese exclusion act

History of white suburbia

Bacon’s rebellion

1. “Angela Davis: An Autobiography” by Angela Davis 2. “Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)” by Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò 3. “Digging our own Graves: Coal Miners and the Struggle over Black Lung Disease” by Barbara Ellen Smith 4. “1919” by Eve L. Ewing 5. “Assata Taught Me: State Violence, Racial Capitalism, and the Movement for Black Lives” by Donna Murch 6. “Finding my Voice” by Emerald Garner 7. “From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation” by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor 8. “Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care” by Kelly E Hayes and Mariame Kaba 9. “An Enemy Such as This: Larry Casuse and the Fight for Native Liberation in One Family on Two Continents Over Three Centuries” by David Correia 10. “101 Changemakers: Rebels and Radicals who Changed US History” by by Michele Bollinger and Dao X Tran  11. “Class War, USA: Dispatches from Workers’ Struggles in American History” by Brandon Weber 12. “#SayHerNameBlack Women’s Stories ofPolice Violence and Public Silence” by Kimberlé Crenshaw and African American Policy Forum 13. “An Asian American A to Z: A Children’s Guide to Our History” by Cathy Linh Che and Kyle Lucia Wu 14. “Repair: Redeeming the Promise of Abolition” by Katherine Franke 15. “Haunted by Slavery: A Memoir of a Southern White Woman in the Freedom Struggle” by Gwendolyn Midlo Hall

Gourd morning!

Saw the greeting from someone else, and had to draw it.

Today In History

Dr. Kenneth Bancroft Clark, psychologist, and civil rights activist was born in the Panama Canal Zone on this date July 24, 1914.

Dr. Clark and his wife Mamie Phipps Clark did the research that showed the psychological effects of prejudice on Black people.

The Clarks’ work contributed to the ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court in which it determined that de jure racial segregation in public education was unconstitutional.

They founded the Northside Center for Child Development in Harlem and the organization Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited.

Kenneth Clark received his bachelor’s and master’s degree from Howard University. He then enrolled at Columbia University and in 1940, became the first African American to earn the doctorate in psychology at the University.

Clark taught at Hampton Institute (now Hampton University) from 1940 to 1941. A year later, he moved to the City College of New York, becoming the institution’s first permanent black faculty member, and the first Black president of the American Psychological Association.

Not trans, not drag.

Married, father-of-five cis white man groomed 17 year old.