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naturalhaireverything: a year and a half...

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:17:14 -0400

a year and a half natural!

www.nefelibatasi.wordpress.com

"Disturb us, Lord, When we are too well pleased with ourselves, When our dreams have come true..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:41:38 -0400

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Disturb us, Lord,
When we are too well pleased with ourselves,
When our dreams have come true because we have dreamed too little,
When we arrived safely
Because we sailed too close to the shore.

Disturb us, Lord, when
With the abundance of things we possess
We have lost our thirst
For the waters of life;
Having fallen in love with life,
We have ceased to dream of eternity
And in our efforts to build a new earth,
We have allowed our vision
Of the new Heaven to dim.

Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly,
To venture on wider seas
Where storms will show your mastery;
Where losing sight of land,
We shall find the stars.

We ask You to push back
The horizons of our hopes;
And to push into the future
In strength, courage, hope, and love.

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- Sir Francis Drake - 1577 (via gwennybear)

tylerknott: Typewriter Series #415 by Tyler Knott Gregson

Fri, 17 May 2013 14:22:53 -0400

tylerknott:

Typewriter Series #415 by Tyler Knott Gregson

Represent Represent

Sat, 11 May 2013 00:28:35 -0400

Represent Represent

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Sat, 13 Apr 2013 08:10:38 -0400

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Tue, 02 Apr 2013 20:06:03 -0400

hazyoceans: this is so perfect

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:25:44 -0400

hazyoceans:

this is so perfect

spiritualinspiration: Today, I want to remind you of what God...

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 13:13:07 -0400

spiritualinspiration:

Today, I want to remind you of what God says about you. No matter what’s happening in your life today, remember: you are not limited by your resources, your family or your background. Almighty God has equipped and empowered you. He has given you creativity, ideas, inventions, skills and talents. Don’t you dare settle for a mediocre life! Today, I call forth the seeds of greatness inside of you.

Today, I declare that your best days are ahead. That you are going to go further than anyone in your family ever did; that you are going to dream bigger and live higher. I declare that you are a leader, an influencer, a minister of reconciliation. You are the fragrance of God to the nations.

Before anyone put a curse on you, God Almighty put a blessing on you. Walk and live in that blessing by following His commands and staying fully committed to Him in everything you do!

To live&die in LA

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 21:50:34 -0500

To live&die in LA

Bored at work…Origami Money!

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 11:48:05 -0500

Bored at work…Origami Money!

collective-history: The Story of Emmett Till On August 24,...

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:37:06 -0500

collective-history:

The Story of Emmett Till

On August 24, 1955, Emmett Till and a group of teenagers entered Bryant’s Grocery and Meat Market to buy refreshments. What exactly transpired inside the grocery store that afternoon will never be known. Till purchased bubble gum, and some of the kids with him would later report that he either whistled at, flirted with, or touched the hand of the store’s white female clerk—and wife of the owner—Carolyn Bryant.

Four days later, at approximately 2:30 in the morning on August 28, 1955, Roy Bryant, Carolyn’s husband, and his half brother J.W. Milam kidnapped Till from Moses Wright’s home. They then beat the teenager brutally, dragged him to the bank of the Tallahatchie River, shot him in the head, tied him with barbed wire to a large metal fan and shoved his mutilated body into the water. Moses Wright reported Till’s disappearance to the local authorities, and three days later his corpse was pulled out of the river. Till’s face was mutilated beyond recognition, and Wright only managed to positively identify him by the ring on his finger, engraved with his father’s initials, L.T.

Till’s body was shipped to Chicago, where his mother opted to have an open-casket funeral with Till’s body on display for five days. Thousands of people came to the Roberts Temple Church of God to see the evidence of this brutal hate crime. Till’s mother said that, despite the enormous pain it caused her to see her son’s dead body on display, she opted for an open-casket funeral to “let the world see what has happened, because there is no way I could describe this. And I needed somebody to help me tell what it was like.”

In the weeks that passed between Till’s burial and the murder and kidnapping trial of Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam, two black publications, Jet magazine and the Chicago Defender, published graphic images of Till’s corpse. By the time the trial commenced on September 19, Emmett Till’s murder had become a source of outrage and indignation throughout much of the country. Because blacks and women were barred from serving jury duty, Bryant and Milam were tried before an all-white, all-male jury. In an act of extraordinary bravery, Moses Wright took the stand and identified Bryant and Milam as Till’s kidnappers and killers. At the time, it was almost unheard of for blacks to openly accuse whites in court, and by doing so Wright put his own life in grave danger.

Despite the overwhelming evidence of the defendants’ guilt and widespread pleas for justice from outside Mississippi, on September 23 the panel of white male jurors acquitted Bryant and Milam of all charges. Their deliberations lasted a mere 67 minutes. Only a few months later, in January 1956, Bryant and Milam admitted to committing the crime. Protected by double jeopardy laws, they told the whole story of how they kidnapped and killed Emmett Till to Look magazine for $4,000.

Coming only one year after the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education mandated the end of racial segregation in public schools, Till’s death provided an important catalyst for the American Civil Rights Movement. One hundred days after Emmett Till’s murder, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on an Alabama city bus, sparking the yearlong Montgomery bus boycott. Nine years later, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, outlawing many forms of racial discrimination and segregation, one year later it passed the Voting Rights Act outlawing discriminatory voting practices

Here you can read the confession in Look Magazine given by Bryant and Milam

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Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:23:17 -0500

Brown Skin Love.

Sat, 05 Jan 2013 08:48:41 -0500

Brown Skin Love.

Sista girl ✊

Sat, 05 Jan 2013 08:40:25 -0500

Sista girl ✊

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Thu, 03 Jan 2013 12:03:25 -0500

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lostinthesounds: (via PostSecret)

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 23:53:40 -0500

lostinthesounds:

(via PostSecret)

rockstarrkagee: #GetYourMedalsUp (Taken with Instagram)

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 23:51:17 -0500

rockstarrkagee:

#GetYourMedalsUp (Taken with Instagram)