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Blitz the Ambassador unleashed a strikingly beautiful video titled ‘Shine,’ onto the internet over the weekend. Shine is the second part of Blitz’s Diasporadical Trilogia                               (The first installment- Juju Girl- was shot in Accra, Ghana, and released about two months ago.)

Watch the video and marvel at how young Ama’s ancestral spirit protects and guides her through NYC spaces, to her and her father’s safety.

Today’s #VisionsOfaBlackFuture poster was created by Gabriel Bernard on the themes of faith and community. IG: brmediadesign

"#BlackLivesMatter is our generation’s call to action to honor Black brilliance and black excellence!" - Patrisse Cullors, Opal Tometi and Alicia Garza, co-founders of Black Lives Matter

In honor of Martin Luther King Day we are honoring civil rights heroes who continued the work of Dr. King. 

Patrisse Cullors is an artist, organizer and freedom fighter living and working in Los Angeles. As founder of Dignity and Power Now and co-founder of #BlackLivesMatter, she has worked tirelessly promoting law enforcement accountability across the nation.

Opal Tometi is the Executive Director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI) an organization that educates and advocates for immigrant rights and racial justice with African-Americans, Afro-Latinos, African and Caribbean immigrant communities. Opal resides in New York City, where she also supports sBAJI’s flagship program the Black Immigration Network (BIN), a nationwide network of Black-led organizations, programs and individuals uniting for racial justice and migrant rights.

Alicia Garza is the Special Projects Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance. She has been the recipient of multiple awards for her organizing work in Black and Latino communities, receiving the Local Hero award from the San Francisco Bay Guardian and the Jeanne Gauna Communicate Justice award from the Center for Media Justice in 2008. She has twice been honored by the Harvey Milk Democratic Club with the Bayard Rustin Community Activist award for her work fighting gentrification and environmental racism in San Francisco’s largest remaining Black community.

!!!!!!!!!This Saturday (September 6th, 2014) at 11am EST!!!!!!!!