And why

dude

and I'm cool with that.

kev

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

http://www.tumblr.com/blog/blackpeopleonlocalnews

I can't even think of one I'd even be on the fence about.

Remember Novemthree's Courage...
visit on the web:www.16stonevintage.com
like on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/16stonevintage
follow on instagram: http://instagram.com/sixteenstone http://instagram.com/vintageblkmags/

Anthony Bourdain
Elon Musk
Kenneth Chenault

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Navem nu, cuando sol
Tutu nu, vondo nos nu
Vita em, no continous non
Nos nu ekta nos sepe ta, amen

When the sun shades the ship
We sweat and life is not safe
To swim or to touch not
When we unite we hedge amen

Elon Musk is a fascinating guy, making an impact. I wish we could clone an army of Neil Degrasse Tyson and send them to all the high schools

dude

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I ain't lyin. This shit i'm making up is true...

http://dreamdefenders.org/

They actually have an Indiegogo campaign up that I didn't even know about:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/dream-defenders-bloc-builder-fund?fb_action_ids=10100566354168590&fb_action_types=indiegogo%3Acontribute&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582

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Maintain chill at all times.

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touched like midas these bitch ass niggas they study and bite us.

As if y'all didn't know that already


does it really matter?

vote for bin: http://tinyurl.com/qz8zep5

the end.

painting a mural and soaking up knowledge. they are the truth.

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I miss Tha D... But I'll never move back there.


R.I.P. Disco D

it's pretty much impossible to look beyond.
i am sure the FBI was behind it.

but farrakhan didn't help matters at all.

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http://twitter.com/aehorton
http://instagram.com/aehorton

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If you can't understand it without an explanation

you can't understand it with an explanation

He's addressing the most significant social justice issue in the country (imo). That's one cause that I would march in the streets for if I was in America. He's doing great work.

Dude is out here speaking truth to power as bluntly as possible.

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

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"People that need positivity around them all the time are weak individuals in my book" - @lilduval

Why:

Obama: the optimum representation of a modern president. Not perfect, but probably the best example we'll see in our lifetimes. I wish he could run for a third term, and then some.

Krugman: he doesn't take no shit, especially from people who claim to be better informed than they actually are. (I'm referring more to austerians than Sandersites here, though they've been a good target recently as well.)

LIGO: I'm biased, and they certainly don't count as "activist" in the usual sense. But they made one of the most difficult measurements in the history of mankind, and developed enough technology that now they'll be able to do it regularly.

So that guy.

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Everything looks like Oprah kissing Harvey Weinstein these days

i mean, he ain't beat death but he beat that assassination attempt...

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I'm tryna be better off, not better than...

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One Hundred.

Dignity and Power Now - helped to bring down the LA County Sheriffs for their brutality.
CultureStrike - art and culture in service of movement work around migration etc.
Occupy in its various manifestations.

what is the official organization, or where does the money do the best work?

~ ~ ~
All meetings end in separation
All acquisition ends in dispersion
All life ends in death
- The Buddha

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='_'=

Every hundred years, all new people

have always been cool with me. i was living in jersey when he came on the scene as antithesis of then mayor Sharp James. if he had a wife & kids he woulda been Obama before Obama.

and living in Maryland, i've seen decades of good work & minimal scandal from Elijah Cummings and Barbara Mikulski.

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I'm tryna be better off, not better than...

#Blacklivesmatter
#Occupy
Critical Resistance - http://criticalresistance.org/
Black Organizing Project - http://blackorganizingproject.org/
BlackOUT Collective - https://www.facebook.com/BlackoutCollective/
Young Gifted and Black - https://www.facebook.com/Young-Gifted-and-Black-122340061172406/
SOULschool - http://www.schoolofunityandliberation.org/
Southern Poverty Law Center - https://www.splcenter.org/
Californians for Justice - www.caljustice.org
Center for Young Women’s Development - www.cywd.org
Leadership Excellence - www.leadershipexcellence.org
Youth Making a Change / Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth - www.colemanadvocates.org
Youth Together - www.youthtogether.net
DataCenter - www.datacenter.org
Funders Collaborative on Youth Organizing - www.fcyo.org
Movement Strategy Center - www.movementstrategy.org
AIWA, Asian Immigrant Women’s Advocates - www.aiwa.org
Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN) - www.apen4ej.org
Communities for a Better Environment - www.cbecal.org
East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (EBASE) - www.workingeastbay.org
Just Cause Oakland - www.justcauseoakland.org
Applied Research Center - www.arc.org
Center for Third World Organizing - www.ctwo.org
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights (EBC) - www.ellabakercenter.org
Ruckus Society - www.ruckus.org
Akonadi foundation - http://akonadi.org/
Neighborhood Funders Group - http://www.nfg.org/
Common Counsel - http://www.commoncounsel.org/
East Side Arts Alliance - http://www.eastsideartsalliance.com/
All of Us or None - http://www.prisonerswithchildren.org/our-projects/allofus-or-none/
Youth Justice Coalition - http://www.youth4justice.org/
Speakout - http://www.speakoutnow.org/
Black Youth Project 100 - http://byp100.org/
Dream Defenders - http://www.dreamdefenders.org/
Hip Hop Congress - http://www.hiphopcongressla.com/hhc.html
Million Hoodies for Justice - http://millionhoodies.net/
Ferguson Action - http://fergusonaction.com/
Race Forward - https://www.raceforward.org/
Color of Change - http://colorofchange.org/
Organization for Black Struggle - http://obs-stl.org/
HandsUp United - http://www.handsupunited.org/
The People's Institute for Survival and Beyond - http://www.pisab.org/
Black Alliance for Just Immigration - http://blackalliance.org/
Black Liberation Collective - http://www.blackliberationcollective.org/
Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (BOLD) - http://boldorganizing.org/
The San Francisco Foundation - http://sff.org/

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fairweather

I'm going to save this and put my high school art students on to these in part because we're looking at how art supports movement work and orgs.


>#Blacklivesmatter
>#Occupy
>Critical Resistance - http://criticalresistance.org/
>Black Organizing Project - http://blackorganizingproject.org/
>BlackOUT Collective -
>https://www.facebook.com/BlackoutCollective/
>Young Gifted and Black -
>https://www.facebook.com/Young-Gifted-and-Black-122340061172406/
>SOULschool - http://www.schoolofunityandliberation.org/
>Southern Poverty Law Center - https://www.splcenter.org/
>Californians for Justice - www.caljustice.org
>Center for Young Women’s Development - www.cywd.org
>Leadership Excellence - www.leadershipexcellence.org
>Youth Making a Change / Coleman Advocates for Children and
>Youth - www.colemanadvocates.org
>Youth Together - www.youthtogether.net
>DataCenter - www.datacenter.org
>Funders Collaborative on Youth Organizing - www.fcyo.org
>Movement Strategy Center - www.movementstrategy.org
>AIWA, Asian Immigrant Women’s Advocates - www.aiwa.org
>Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN) - www.apen4ej.org
>Communities for a Better Environment - www.cbecal.org
>East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (EBASE) -
>www.workingeastbay.org
>Just Cause Oakland - www.justcauseoakland.org
>Applied Research Center - www.arc.org
>Center for Third World Organizing - www.ctwo.org
>Ella Baker Center for Human Rights (EBC) -
>www.ellabakercenter.org
>Ruckus Society - www.ruckus.org
>Akonadi foundation - http://akonadi.org/
>Neighborhood Funders Group - http://www.nfg.org/
>Common Counsel - http://www.commoncounsel.org/
>East Side Arts Alliance -
>http://www.eastsideartsalliance.com/
>All of Us or None -
>http://www.prisonerswithchildren.org/our-projects/allofus-or-none/
>Youth Justice Coalition - http://www.youth4justice.org/
>Speakout - http://www.speakoutnow.org/
>Black Youth Project 100 - http://byp100.org/
>Dream Defenders - http://www.dreamdefenders.org/
>Hip Hop Congress - http://www.hiphopcongressla.com/hhc.html
>Million Hoodies for Justice - http://millionhoodies.net/
>Ferguson Action - http://fergusonaction.com/
>Race Forward - https://www.raceforward.org/
>Color of Change - http://colorofchange.org/
>Organization for Black Struggle - http://obs-stl.org/
>HandsUp United - http://www.handsupunited.org/
>The People's Institute for Survival and Beyond -
>http://www.pisab.org/
>Black Alliance for Just Immigration -
>http://blackalliance.org/
>Black Liberation Collective -
>http://www.blackliberationcollective.org/
>Black Organizing for Leadership and Dignity (BOLD) -
>http://boldorganizing.org/
>The San Francisco Foundation - http://sff.org/

http://www.eastsideartsalliance.com/links/index.php

and Black Magic Arts Collective, which is kinda a blackout/BLM affiliate

and also my old org

www.destinyarts.org

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fairweather

My standard is integrity and consistency in progressive values.

Also, speaking harsh truths to and about people on "your side."

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"People that need positivity around them all the time are weak individuals in my book" - @lilduval

the night of the Dallas shooting.

Between conspiracy theorizing about whether or not the shooter existed down to 'stay safe unless you're wearing blue'.

Shit was wild.

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"People that need positivity around them all the time are weak individuals in my book" - @lilduval

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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

Dude challenges me and my complacency and reminds me what articulate black rage is suppose to look like. Follow that dude on facebook to get Gems like this:

"I was taught by black writerly folks who believe every black American writer's job is to critically love black folks, to witness, to confess and to push the occupant of that presidential seat of empire, regardless of the race, sexuality or gender of that occupant.

I was also taught to be overcome with joy when a black person wins anything over white folks. That lesson came easier. Easiest, actually.
Hence, I don't care if it's appropriately woke or not, but I am so so happy that Michelle, Barack, Malia and Sasha are a month away from making it out of that White House alive. Ain't no way their insides are okay, though. Not after 8 years of coping with, and inflicting, all kinds of abuse, death and destruction.

Our being in that house did a lot for poor and rich white folks, but it didn't bring the best out of -- or to -- many of our folk.
I hope we never long to go back in that poisonous ass house ever again. I hope we never willfully take another job that requires us to call our young people "thugs" for the pleasure of white folks who hate us. I hope we never willfully take another job where we must lie about the nation's role in global oppression.

Like Kaitlyn Greenidge wrote, if our job is to imagine, I want to be about the business of imagining black utopias where dynamic, loving, free black rooms and free black lives and free black art and free black work and free black houses are inevitable.

I hope we never take another job in another white house where just making it out black, tired, and alive -- with all kinds of blood on our hands -- feels like a win." written by Kiese Laymon



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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

save the spirit of truth that is in all of us

and dr. welsing.

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if racism is a cancer, black thought is the answer.

Rjcc is code for "bitch-ass troll"

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