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#Repost @blacklikevanilla ・・・ This is heartbreaking. If you care about #BlackGirls, if you believe they should be seen, then help identify this #FuturePrincessHero. She deserves better. This could be your daughter, sister, niece, cousin, etc. Anyone with information about the child is urged to call the Sheriff's Homicide Bureau at (323) 890-5500, or Crime Stoppers at (800) 222-TIPS. The girl was black, between 8 and 13 years old, 4 feet 5 inches tall and weighed 55 pounds. He said there were no visible signs of malnutrition or mistreatment. She was found in a duffle bag in Hacienda Heights, CA. Full article on FB page. Link in bio. #BlackLikeVanilla ___________________________ From CNN: “California authorities are hoping to identify a young girl -- wearing a shirt that said "Future Princess Hero" -- whose body was found partially inside a large duffel bag. Police hope that someone will recognize the girl, the suitcase or the pink shirt she was wearing when she was found. The girl, believed to be between 8 and 13 years of age, was found Tuesday near an equestrian trail in the Hacienda Heights area with her head and upper body protruding from the partially zipped roll-away black duffel bag, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Lt. Scott Hoglund told reporters at a Wednesday news conference. The department released a sketch of the girl, showing her in a pink, long-sleeved top adorned with the words "Future Princess Hero" and pants with a panda print. Authorities said she was black, about 4 feet 5 inches tall and weighed about 55 pounds. She was "small in nature," Hoglund told reporters. Although the death is suspicious, Hoglund told reporters that investigators did not observe any obvious signs of trauma. An autopsy is expected to be done within the next day or two to determine how she died. Authorities do not know if she was placed in the bag dead or alive, Hoglund said. "At this point, we don't have any leads. We don't have any idea of who this child is,'' Hoglund said, calling it a "horrible, tragic case." Investigators believe that she was left in the light brush next to the trail late Sunday evening, and they hope people who might have seen anything suspicious https://www.instagram.com/p/Bu4HEoHlBDk/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=31tuyw32t0t4

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And that’s what matters. Power of the black✊🏽 #Repost @blacklikevanilla ・・・ $41,136,000 and $33,316,000 respectively. This is the FIRST time ever two #BlackDirectors held these spots and the first for a #BlackWomanDirector (and during #WomensHistoryMonth too). This is what we call ‘history’ folks. To quote the great #Atlien, #BigBoi aka #DaddyFatSacks aka #SirLuciousLeftFoot aka #GeneralPatton: “Go on and marinate on that for a minute”. #AlwaysBetOnBlack #WeWinningOutchea #BlackAF #BlackPanther #RyanCoogler #WakandaForever #AWrinkleInTime #AvaDuvernay #HistoryMakers #BlackLikeVanilla ________________ From Showbiz411: “A lot will be written this morning about Ava Duvernay’s “A Wrinkle in Time” finishing second at the box office to Ryan Coogler’s “Black Panther” in its opening weekend. “Panther” made $41 mil to “Wrinkle”‘s $33 million. But there are two firsts here that are more important. The first first: the top 2 movies of the week are made by black directors. The second first: One of them (Duvernay) is a woman. The third first: Coogler is the second black director to score a billion dollar movie worldwide. The first was #FGaryGray with “The Fate of the Furious” last year, total $1.2 billion. Coogler, 31, is now on a trajectory for a long, confident, and successful career following the award winning and much praised “#FruitvaleStation” and the studio powered hit “Creed.” Duvernay has already become a symbolic leader for women in general, female directors, you name it. She was really screwed on “#Selma,” a movie that needs to be seen over and over. But she’s made her name with “Wrinkle.””

#Repost @blacklikevanilla ・・・ Today, on this bogus ass holiday known as #ColumbusDay, I went back and forth on whether to post about #PedroAlonsoNino, a black explorer and navigator, who helped navigate #ChristopherColumbus's voyage to the #NewWorld. I was hesitant because its an admission of black people being complicit in the destruction and death of #NativePeople and their land in the Americas. I decided to share because ignoring it doesn't change history. I don't know Niño direct role in these slaughters. I do find it interesting that there were black men, not slaves, who traveled freely around the world, helping shape it to what we know now, something I was NEVER taught in my history classes. #ThisHistory #OurHistory #BlackHistory #AmericanHistory #BlackNavigator #BlackExplorer #BlackLikeVanilla ____________________ From Encyclopedia: "Pedro Alonso Niño was a Spanish explorer known as el Negro. A native of Moguer, Spain, Niño acted as pilot of the #SantaMaría during the first voyage of Christopher Columbus. In 1499 Niño and Christopher Guerra received permission from Bishop Juan Rodríguez De Fonseca to explore the Gulf of Paria. On the island of Margarita they bartered for a considerable quantity of pearls and then made their way to the Cubagua Islands, which they believed to be part of Tierra Firme. There they traded for a substantial amount of pearls and returned to Spain in April 1500, only to be imprisoned for allegedly concealing part of the wealth they had acquired in the New World. Niño was exonerated of all charges, was set free, and gained fame for participating in one of the most lucrative voyages to the New World."

#Repost @blacklikevanilla (@get_repost) ・・・ His name was #AriesClark. He was killed on Tuesday outside of an emergency shelter "for youths that his parents had sent him to for behavioral issues". He was there for help. He was shot and killed by the police. The police chief has declined to release details of the shooting except to say the two officers involved are on *drumroll please* #PaidAdminstrativeLeave. "His mother stated to media that doctors told her Aries was shot in the back of the head, buttocks, and back." What can I say that hasn't already been said a million times before? I guess I'll keep beating a dead horse and scream #STOPKILLINGUS #BLACKLIVESMATTER #SAYHISNAME #BlackLikeVanilla _____________________ From @blackvoices: "A 16-year-old black teen in Arkansas was fatally shot by a cop while outside a youth treatment center. Aries Clark was at East Arkansas Youth Services on Tuesday ― an emergency shelter for youths that his parents had sent him to for behavioral issues ― when the shooting occurred. “I never expected not to see my son again,” the boy’s mother, Vicky Clark, told WMC. “I had saw him that Thursday, and we were trying to figure out how we were going to do therapy to get help for him.” Arkansas State Police told the publication that an officer with the Marion Police Department shot Clark at 7 p.m., moments after arriving. The boy was taken to a hospital where he later died. Marion Police Chief Gary Kelley declined to release information related to the shooting, saying only that two officers have been placed on paid administrative leave, according to KATV. The Arkansas State Police declined to release more information when asked by HuffPost, citing the ongoing investigation. Clark’s grandmother, Vickie Burks, said she was in the process of trying to get full custody of her grandson. “I was expecting him to come home, not to be buried,” Burks told the station. “I was telling him, give yourself a little while and you’ll be home with me.”"