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odinsblog:

BLACK WOMEN DID IT FIRST

I was there.  I got on an overpacked bus from Charlotte, only got 3 hours sleep on the floor of a crowded hotel room only to barely wash my ass or eat.  Took a way too crowded train to this spot so that I could be enveloped in the embrace of Black Love and Sisterhood.

The city had barricaded the steps of the museum off until a group of brothers was like “Fuck that!” and moved the barricades so that we could have a place to sit and rest.

the-movemnt:

Paris mayor denounces black feminist festival because it is “forbidden to white people”

  • In a series of tweets on Sunday, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo condemned a black feminist festival planned for July. 
  • The three-day festival, she said, is discriminatory because it is “forbidden to white people,” the Associated Press reported.
  • The Nyansapo Festival, slated for July 28 to 30, aims to “put the accent on how our resistance as an Afro-feminist movement is organized.
  •  The festival is organized into distinct spaces: 80% of the venue is reserved for black women only, another section is open to black people of any gender and the third section is open to all. 
  • “We aim to build long-term strategies and solidarities, and that is why it is important to meet, to share so we can keep fighting,” its website states. Read more (5/30/17)

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refinery29:

Watch: In a powerful Congresional speech, Sandra Bland’s mother called people who think they’re woke “the walking dead” because of how little we still know

The speech included a rousing call to action before the newly formed Congressional Caucus On Black Women & Girls. And her words were incredibly resonant, even if you think you know the whole story.

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