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Divine order . .. issa thing <3 Axé

At least 100 million Africans died and were killed during the #MiddlePassage kidnapping from Africa to the Americas. Fathers, Mothers, sons, daughters, Doctors, Teachers etc. on their way to #Slavery Reposted from @motownson (@get_regrann) - It is IMPERATIVE that we think of + honor our Ancestors that didn’t make it to the shores of the places where we landed outside of our beloved Motherland Africa. They weren’t/aren’t weaker than those Ancestors that did. We are all forever connected. Their Spirits have been protecting the waters between Africa and the rest of the world where we ALL are! ❣️ Whether born on the continent or still accepting that your roots are African ... those water angels connect us. They are in the threshold and we give thanks. We love them. We are them. What do you feel? Do you (ever) think about them? What have you thought about? Thinking about? 🎤😊💞🌊 Be blessed familia. 🙏🏿💌 #egungun #veryconnected #1619 #asaseyaa #yemanja #mamiwata #olokun #soulfie Artist: Unknown - #regrann https://www.instagram.com/p/B4smsPBDrwr/?igshid=540eeochcqmf

My 💖 is still so full... 🙏🏿@afro.digital.native! ____________________________ Via @afro.digital.native - for the majority of the day i have been re-living all the love i felt at the @afropunk + @natblacktheatre convo on ‘Black Joy — as an expression of resistance and liberation’. 🖤 so wild that it was over a year ago. 😌 the pouring of libations and exchanging with these beautiful folks did a lot for + to my soul, mind, body and heart ... and is still doing. 🙏🏿 i love each and every one of them and am infinitely thankful for them inviting me to moderate a #veryblack kitchen talk, publicly. it was ALL of the emotions. it is imperative to explore the creative resistance, expression + liberation housed in our authentic joy — on our own terms, in our own hands. 🌹thank you to everyone that watched, support/ed and cares. it’s safe to say it meant and will forever mean a lot to us. blessed love day, fam. axé! #veryconnected #verythankful #foreverthankful ps - thank you forever @natblacktheatre + @afropunk for truly seeing the kid and letting me be my #veryblack self! 😩 i love yaw! 💌 #teamlove cc: @theveryblackproject #artnoir (at The National Black Theatre: Institute for Action Arts)

💖P💖R💖O💖U💖D💖 🙏🙏🙏🙏👑👑👑👑👑👑 Repost @afrolatinofestivalnyc Year 4 of the #DecenioAfro #AfroDecade Much work to be done. #SeguimosPalante ✊🏿✊🏿 #orgullosamenteafrodescendiente #negrxconorgullo #hayquetrabajar #Repost @theveryblackproject ・・・ Thinking of those who paved a way for all us as we lift up the next generation. 💞 #veryconnected #veryinterconnected #veryblack #soulfie Rp: @marcus_kwame 🙏🏿

#Repost from @theveryblackproject with @regram.app ... The elders know they be gettin down! Shoutout to them! 🙌🏿 They done really commenced the holiday season partying. ✨ #verycelebratory #veryintune #veryconnected #veryblack

#NoJusticeNoProfit @Regrann from @theveryblackproject - “It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.” – James Baldwin . Picture: James Baldwin (August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987) and his brother, David, Paris, France, 1981. Photo © Jane Evelyn Atwood. . James Baldwin, who died thirty years ago, was an American novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and social critic, best-known as a writer with no equal on the intersection of race, sexuality, and class in mid-20th century America. . In the late 1940s, having grown disillusioned with the pervasive race and class prejudices in the United States, Baldwin expatriated and settled in France. In 1953, Baldwin’s first novel, the semi-autobiographical “Go Tell It on the Mountain,” was published, followed in 1956 by “Giovanni’s Room,” a stark exploration of homosexual love; both books presented questions of race, sexuality, and social status with a literary sense of violent unrest and outrage that redefined American literature. . In the midst of the Black Civil Rights movement, Baldwin corresponded with then-Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy (who later referred to Baldwin as “Martin Luther Queen”), which led to a famous meeting at Kennedy’s Manhattan apartment. That meeting, also attended by Harry Belafonte, Lena Horne, Lorraine Hansberry, and others, often is cited as evidence of the vast ideological rift between black activists and the Kennedy-era liberal elite. . Baldwin, who developed working relationships with a number of mainstream civil rights leaders, found himself excluded from key events during the movement due to his homosexuality. . On being gay, Baldwin said: “Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.” #soulfie . James Baldwin died from stomach cancer on December 1, 1987; he was sixty-three. 🙏🏿 #lgbthistory #HavePrideInHistory #Resist #JamesBaldwin #VeryConnected #VeryBlack Rp: @lgbt_history - #regrann

Repost from @theveryblackproject on Instagram: “YO!!! This is TRULY a brilliant piece of creation! This IS #verycontemporary life in the #veryblack…” using @RepostRegramApp - YO!!! This is TRULY a brilliant piece of creation! This IS #verycontemporary life in the #veryblack diaspora! @jteklai you ATE THIS! 😍🙌🏿👏🏾👏🏾! If you came thru #EverydayAfrique at @outputclub for @everydaypplnyc + @electraafrique + @okayafrica then you can testify! Motha Africa is so many glorious things! 🌹 Many of us have not had a chance to make it home to visit her yet but she lives in us ... so one day. Inshallah! 🙏🏽 And until then we just gotta keep letting her blood run thru our veins from the continent to every corner of the 🌍! Ya dig? 🇪🇷💕🇺🇸veryeritrian #verynorthamerican #veryconnected #verydiasporic #veryafrican #africanAF Axé! 💌