AfroCentric

It’s FDR in one the most well-known presidential portraits and is featured on the US dime.

It was sculped by Selma Burke, a black sculptor and a pioneer in the Harlem Renaissance.

Clean Eating

this list ignores the last 15 years of movies, but that makes sense. if we’re going to talk about “classics”, we have to give the movies time to become classics.

legend ( italicized - seen it, bold- have a copy of it too)

Carmen Jones (1954)

Imitation of Life (1959)

Raisin in the Sun (1961)

Shaft (1971)

Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song (1971)

Super Fly (1972)

Lady Sings the Blues (1972)

The Mack (1973)

Coffy (1973)

Black Caesar (1973)

Cleopatra Jones (1974)

Foxy Brown (1974)

Claudine (1974)

Uptown Saturday Night (1974)

Cornbread, Earl and Me (1975)

Dolemite (1975)

Cooley High (1975)

Mahogany (1975)

Sparkle (1976)

Car Wash (1976)

The Wiz (1978)

Breakin’ (1984)

Beat Street (1984)

A Soldier’s Story (1984)

Purple Rain (1984)

Krush Groove (1985)

The Color Purple (1985)

Hollywood Shuffle (1987)

Raw (1987)

School Daze (1988)

Coming to America (1988)

Lean On Me (1989)

Glory (1989)

Do the Right Thing (1989)

Harlem Nights (1989)

Mo’ Better Blues (1989)

House Party (1990)

The Five Heartbeats (1991)

Jungle Fever (1991)

Strictly Business (1991)

Boyz n the Hood (1991)

New Jack City (1991)

White Men Can’t Jump (1992)

Bebe’s Kids (1992) (used to have this on VHS lol)

Boomerang (1992)

Malcolm X (1992)

Juice (1992)

Class Act (1992)

What’s Love Got to Do With It (1993)

CB4 (1993)

Posse (1993)

Poetic Justice (1993)

Menace II Society (1993)

Jason’s Lyric (1994)

A Low Down Dirty Shame (1994)

Tales From the Hood (1995)

Bad Boys (1995)

Friday (1995)

Waiting to Exhale (1995)

Higher Learning (1995)

Set It Off (1996)

Hav Plenty (1998)

Eve’s Bayou (1997)

Love Jones (1997)

Soul Food (1997)

Belly (1998)

How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998)

The Best Man (1999)

The Wood (1999)

Love & Basketball (2000)

of course she couldn’t get ALL of the movies on here… but some notable misses :

The Temptations (1998)

Why Do Fools Fall In Love (1998)

Dead Presidents (1995)

Polly (1989)

A Hero Ain’t Nothing But A Sandwich (1978)

The Marva Collins Story (1981)

Sister Act II (1993)

Hoodlum (1997)

Women of Brewster Place (1989) 

Little Richard (2000)

Bamboozled (2000)

I’m Gonna Git You Sucka (1988)

The Jacksons: An American Dream (1992)

Introducing Dorothy Dandridge (1999)

Preacher’s Wife (1996)

The Bodyguard (1992)

Mo Money (1992) (ok maybe not so notable, but yeah)

Blankman (1994)

A Tribe Called Quest

The Natural Look 

Neo-Soul Music

Tom Joyner cruises

Talking about Trap Music

being on Tumblr

Talking about dating White men/women

There weak ass job

How great Howard was

using “Shade” incorrectly

About how much they don’t twerk

How educated they are

 talking about why Poor Black people can’t get ahead 

Post-Stankonia Outkast

Don Lemon

Gabrielle Union

Hating Tyler Perry

Boyz II Men

Condoms

High Fashion

College Dropout

How much they don’t value big asses

secretly loving Travis Porter

Shitting on Black Women who fit the “Ratchet” stereotype

Childish Gambino

The Game

Love Jones

Beyonce (everyone loves Beyonce but Bougie Black folks idolize her)

Ironically Bougie Black people like pointing out lesser known artists are better than Beyonce. For an example. “Lauryn Hill shits on Beyonce” or “I wish Janelle Monae had the attention Beyonce has” or “I prefer Adele”. Even though that person probably hasn’t heard a full album from any of them.

Post-Black Album Jay Z

Idris Elba

She’s a hero. She’s a woman and she’s black.She deserves to be acknowledged and  appreciated by the society.