you were made to be victorious

I adore how she carries his head low, at her side, and not aloft in triumph. This is not a self-aggrandizing hero lauding her great deed. This is a woman who wanted to be left the fuck alone.

I love this even better now that we can see the baffled look on Perseus’s face.

This is how slaves brought over the peanut plant!

Last year, I took a class called History of the African-American Spirit. One of the things I learned about is black people’s hairstyles (especially cornrows) during slavery. They were more than just hairstyles and creative ways to store food. They were also used to create maps. Black slaves would use these maps to escape plantations and their captors.

Okay I never knew this! 🙌🏾

I’d read about certain crops being potentially brought over from Africa to the Americans via seeds in captured slaves’ hair, but I hadn’t known how simple and subtle the hairstyle could be.

That’s pretty goddamn amazing

I did a research project on him, Ella Baker, Claudette Colvin and Stokely Carmichael comparing their contributions to the Civil Rights Movement to the lack of recognition and misrepresentation they received in commonly used high school American History textbooks. All of these people played major roles in the Civil Rights Movement—almost on par with MLK—yet they go largely unnoticed or unfairly pushed aside not only during their time, but even now in classes on American History. These men and women deserve to be remembered.

People they’ll never tell you about, may their stories be told now

I love black women exercising their right to say EXACTLY how tf they feel despite public white opinion

When has a male athlete ever been asked to smile

oh my GOD

How can people have this much talent

Why is Kylie Jenner still selling matte lipsticks in 2020. Read the room

i hate wearing a mask. i miss being able to gently kiss my trader joes cashier on the lips after they ring up my $8 box of blueberries