We always turn water into wine
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Queen Latifah on a lift spitting to a building full of men gotta be one of hip hop’s most iconic moments of all-time.
Anthem. Now and forever.
YES YES YES
I love Zuri already! can’t wait!!!
This gotta bring awareness to things that really matter. Representation DOES matter! The only people think it doesn’t, are people that are represented plenty. There gotta be a lot of Black People in cartoons for kids, and it doesn’t take much critical thinking to see why. We need Black Educated Successful Pride role models here.
I Can’t Believe We Use To Do This 😂😂
This is so lit
This made me so happy!
These young ass middle school kids couldn’t appreciate this fully 😂😂😂😂
Black history 🙌🏾
I used to FUCK IT UP to walk it out & the stanky leg!! I wish he would’ve done pop lock & drop it 😂😂
Everything about this lit
I LIVE!!!!
When you meet whom you desire, let the world go, give it up.
(via writemeanna)
HERStory Matters: Civil rights activist Lillie Mae Carroll Jackson was born on May 25, 1889.
Born in Baltimore, Lillie Mae was the seventh of eight children born to Charles Henry and Amanda Bowen Carroll. Her father was Methodist minister Charles Henry Carroll. Lillie Jackson was educated in Baltimore’s Colored High School and graduated in 1908. After high school, she taught in the Black school system in Baltimore.
She met her husband, Keiffer Jackson, during this time, while singing soprano in the choir of the Sharp Street Baptist Church, and they were married in 1910. She traveled with him, singing and lecturing, while he showed his films to church groups. After the birth of their first child, Virginia, the Jacksons returned to Baltimore.
According to family lore, Lillie’s commitment to fighting segregation began with a medical crisis in 1918. Before emergency surgery for mastoiditis, Lillie prayed to God to spare her life so she might raise her children. In return, she vowed a lifetime of service. After the surgery, the doctor told her that he had removed more decayed bone from her head than he thought possible to survive. Despite the disfigurement of her face by the surgery, Lillie kept her promise. In Baltimore, Lillie gave birth to Juanita, Virginia, and her only son, Bowen Keiffer.
As a successful businesswoman with rental properties, Lillie had the financial independence and time to carry out her commitment to serve others. She became the first woman to serve on the board of trustees for the Sharp Street Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church. Then she sponsored the City-Wide Young Peoples Forum.
In 1935, she accepted an invitation to revive the local NAACP chapter. She was its president until 1970, building the organization to a peak membership of 17,600. Despite the threat of violence that had kept Jim Crow in place, she brought steady pressure against segregation. Known as “Mother of Freedom,” and “that NAACP lady” by her opponents, she ran the Baltimore branch for 35 years, and led the organization in picketing one “Whites-only” theater for six straight years before the management gave in. Her daughter Juanita described her as a “freedom fighter.” Whatever the label, Lillie Carroll Jackson was a leader of the civil rights movement in Maryland.
Known as the “mistress of the gavel,” She was unanimously re-elected president of the Baltimore branch of the NAACP each year during her tenure. As organizer and president of the Maryland State Conference of NAACP branches, she was elected to the National Board of Directors in 1948. With the support of the churches and the Afro-American newspaper, the branch became one of the largest and strongest in the nation. She traveled the counties of Maryland, organizing branches of the NAACP until there was a network of units across the state. These units united in a vigorous campaign for justice at the state level. Jackson’s goal was "To help secure freedom and justice under the law.”
The Baltimore branch initiated history-making legal cases that challenged the constitutionality of segregation in education, employment, and public accommodations. Among other achievements during this time, Jackson helped instigate the legal challenges to Jim Crow in Maryland, and NAACP special counsels brought a suit that desegregated the University of Maryland School of Law. The local NAACP under her presidency got the city to put Black policemen in uniforms for the first time. Public pools, parks, and civil service jobs were opened to Blacks.
Lillie Mae Carroll Jackson died in July 1975 from a myocardial infarction. Jackson’s will called for the home she lived in for twenty-two years, 1320 Eutaw Place in Baltimore, to be turned into a museum. As the only museum named after a woman and the only civil rights museum in the state of Maryland, it served as a repository of civil rights artifacts including documents, framed memorabilia and household furnishings. Prominent amongst these was a life-sized photo of Jackson with Rosa Parks just inside the building’s entrance.
Upon its 1978 opening, the museum enjoyed a modest flow of visitors. By mid-1990, its maintenance had become untenable to the extent that the structure was no longer viable as a museum. Since 1996, Morgan State University (who had awarded Jackson with an honorary doctor of laws degree in 1958) has taken responsibility for the facility and as curators have placed its contents in storage until the facility can be renovated and re-opened. A re-opening of the museum is currently planned for June 2016.
In 1986, Jackson was posthumously inducted into the Maryland Women’s Hall of Fame. Baltimore’sLillie May Carroll Jackson Charter School for middle school girls is named in her honor.
Source: Wikipedia
Whatever you do, never run back to what broke you.
RIP Trayvon Martin
gives me chills
He didn’t do a damn thing wrong
I’m gonna reblog this every time I see it because never forget.
This hurts my heart
This has just finished me
Rest in Power young soldier
i think as a tumblr citizen i have to reblog this..and as a tumblr community we all should no matter how dope ur blog is..this cannot be forgotten. only we can keep this alive..cuz u no dam well the news wont and ppl will soon rarely talk about it.
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No Words. Always REBLOG
always.
Made me reblog ‘i think as a tumblr citizen i have to reblog this..and as a tumblr community we all should no matter how dope ur blog is..this cannot be forgotten. only we can keep this alive..cuz u no dam well the news wont and ppl will soon rarely talk about it.’ 🙌🏽
God bless him
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