Wayne County, MI Prosecutor Kym Worthy arranged the testing of 10,000 rape kits in her county and identified over 800 serial rapist
11,341 untested rape kits, 10,000 finally tested, 817 serial rapists. Approx 400,000 untested rape kits, nationwide http://www.endthebacklog.org/
Source: womenintheworld.com
«The process of empowerment can not be simplistically defined in accordance with our own particular class interests. We must learn to lift as we climb» –Angela Davis #blackhistorymonth
Kimberlé Crenshaw: State of Female Justice
Happy Black History Month : 5 inspiring black women who made history
HARRIET TUBMAN (1820-1913)
The one who personally guided hundreds of slaves to freedom.
“I had reasoned this out in my mind; there was on of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other; for no man should take me alive.”
ANGELA DAVIS (1944-)
The one who fought for the rights of Afro Americans and oppressed people.
“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”
ROSA PARKS (1913-2005)
The one who refused to leave her place to a white passenger on a bus.
“I knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move.” or her famous "Nah.”
RUBY BRIDGES (1954-)
The brave little black girl who went to a public school for white kids.
“Each and every one of us is born with a clean heart. Our babies know nothing about hate or racism. But soon they begin to learn – and only from us. We keep racism alive. We pass it on to our children. We owe it to our children to help them keep their clean start.”
BESSIE COLEMAN (1892-1926)
The one who became an aviator despite her skin color.
“I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.”
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Girls walking in Harlem, 1947, New York City.
That it’s okay to be fed up. How to keep it moving, how to care for people around you in the community and how to make humor and art and love out of what is traumatic. It’s something that Black women have not only passed down in lineage, but also around each other.
Morgan Parker
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Black people who consider black cats evil and bad luck also has a demonic evil white spirit within them . How else can you explain the backwardness thinking of our people. Black cats was always considered sacred and protectors of the gods in ancient times .
At the time of the Black Power movement, natural hair in the Black community had become more than a fashion trend but also a political statement. Discrimination and regulation over Black hair has been present throughout time, from the Tignon Laws to the legal discrimination of natural hair styles, such a locs, in the judicial system. Thus, the Black community’s conscious decision to wear their hair in its natural, unprocessed state became a form of self-love and empowerment as a way of breaking away from European beauty standards. Artists in Soul of a Nation often portrayed figures with natural hair styles and used real hair as a medium to further accentuate these beliefs and proclaim that Black hair and blackness itself was inherently art.
Posted by Emoni Baraka Photo: Dawoud Bey, Deas McNeil, the Barber, 1976, printed by 1979. Silver gelatin print. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Restricted gift of Anita Blanchard M.D. and Martin Nesbitt. © Dawoud Bey. (Image Courtesy of Stephen Daiter Gallery). Installation views of ⇨ David Hammons’s Bag Lady in Flight (1975) ⇨ and Nap Tapestry (1978), and ⇨ Cliff Joseph. Blackboard, 1969. Oil on canvas. Courtesy of Aaron Galleries, Glenview, Illinois. © Cliff Joseph.