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Black Excellence.

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Color is a power which directly influences the soul.

Benny Harlem, a California-based artist who has been documenting his and his daughter’s incredible natural hair.

Black Panther Style...✊🏾

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Maya Angelou reading in her dressing room before her performance at the Village Vanguard in New York City. Long before she was a poet and writer and the icon we know today, Dr. Angelou was a dancer and singer of folk and calypso songs (she even recorded an album in 1957 called “Miss Calypso” and appeared in the film “Calypso Heat Wave” that same year. This photo was taken by G. Marshall Wilson, who was a staff photographer at Ebony for 33 years. Photo: Art.com

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Jesse Williams speech at the 2016 BET Awards:

“The burden of the brutalized is not to comfort the bystander. That’s not our job, alright? Stop with all that. If you have a critique for the resistance—for our resistance—then you’d better have an established record of critique of our oppression. If you have no interest… If you have no interest in equal rights for black people, then do not make suggestions to those who do. Sit down.”

BLACK. LIVES. MATTER