Soulful Outbursts

I WROTE A PIECE ABOUT FINDING PEACE. DO YOU HAVE TROUBLE SLEEPING? -aw

So fun, fresh, black and beautiful.  GREEN GARDEN

1. Listen without interrupting. ( PROVERBS 18 )
2. Speak without accusing. ( JAMES 1:19 )
3. Give without sparing. ( PROVERBS 21:26 )
4. Pray without ceasing. ( COLOSSIANS 1:9 )
5. Answer without arguing. ( PROVERBS 17:1 )
6. Share without pretending. ( EPHESIANS 4:15 )
7. Enjoy without complaint. ( PHILIPPIANS 2:14 )
8. Trust without wavering. ( CORINTHIANS 13:7 )
9. Forgive without punishing. ( COLOSSIANS 3:13 )
10. Promise without forgetting. ( PROVERBS 13:12 )

25 years ago

Watch this gorgeous short by the brilliant Sundance winner, Ava DuVernay. A sleek and glossy moment of friendship and love amongst women. Supporting one another and looking amazing while doing so, moving to the melodies of the amazing soundtrack. Press Play….

Black Russians - The Red Experience:

A work-in-progress documentary about a coterie of dreamers, Black American professionals who left the United States for the Soviet Union in search of an ideal and saw Stalinist Russia as a promised land, but finding that nothing is perfect. This little known episode in American history resonates with the all-embracing words of Martin Luther King “I have a dream…” that have relevance in today’s world.

Sade.

sarraounia:

Some Ancient African Kingdoms: Great Zimbabwe, Numidia, the Mali Empire, the Songhay Empire. Since Europeans started to talk about and attempted to claim Ancient Egypt history (that popular kingdom people “love” but they don’t even know why), everyone followed…You can all have it.

• The Mali Empire or Manden Kurufaba was a West African empire of the Mandinka from c. 1230 to c. 1600. The empire was founded by Sundiata Keita and became renowned for the wealth of its rulers, especially Mansa Musa I. The Mali Empire had many profound cultural influences on West Africa, allowing the spread of its language, laws and customs along the Niger River. It extended over a large area and consisted of numerous vassal kingdoms and provinces. Today part of Burkina Faso, Gambia, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal.
• The Songhay Empire was a state located in western Africa from the early 15th to the late 16th century. This empire bore the same name as its leading ethnic group, the Songhai. Its capital was the city of Gao (today in northern Mali), where a Songhai state had existed since the 11th century. Its base of power was on the bend of the Niger River in present day Niger and Burkina Faso.
• Numidia (202 BC – 46 BC) was an ancient Amazigh kingdom located on the province of Mauretania (Ancient “Libyan” land) to the west, the Roman province of Africa (modern day Tunisia) to the east, the Mediterranean Sea to the north, and the Sahara Desert to the south. Its people were the Numidians.
• The Kingdom of Zimbabwe (1220–1450) was a kingdom located in the territory of modern-day Zimbabwe. It is famous for its capital, Great Zimbabwe, the largest stone structure in Southern Africa until recent times.

Pictures: Great Zimbabwe ruins and remains of the Numidia Kingdom. Credits: List of Kingdoms in pre-colonial Africa

“We understood that neither of us was going to leave. The wedding is an event. The marriage is a lifetime”- Ruby Dee (about her marriage to Ossie Davis)

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Self-taught African Teen Wows M.I.T.
15-Year-Old Kelvin Doe is an engineering whiz living in Sierra Leone who scours the trash bins for spare parts, which he uses to build batteries, generators and transmitters. Completely self-taught, Kelvin has created his own radio station where he broadcasts news and plays music under the moniker, DJ Focus.