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blackspeculativefiction:


GA-TECH GETS FUNKY!
Filmmakers Partner With The Yellow Jackets to Produce the First Steamfunk Feature Film!

Lorraine Pascale, Beverly Peele, and Karen Alexander John Galliano Spring/Summer 1993

(Source: black-model-famous, via posttragicmulatto)

soulbrotherv2:

Up Before Daybreak: Cotton And People In America by Deborah Hopkinson

In this stunning nonfiction volume, award-winning author Deborah Hopkinson weaves the stories of slaves, sharecroppers, and mill workers into a tapestry illuminating the history of cotton in America.In UP BEFORE DAYBREAK, acclaimed author Deborah Hopkinson captures the voices of the forgotten men, women, and children who worked in the cotton industry in America over the centuries. The voices of the slaves who toiled in the fields in the South, the poor sharecroppers who barely got by, and the girls who gave their lives to the New England mills spring to life through oral histories, archival photos, and Hopkinson’s engaging narrative prose style. These stories are amazing and often heartbreaking, and they are imbedded deep in our nation’s history.
hoosiernerd:

 rape is a crime  - don’t rape

"If you wish to get well from disease conditions and you have a great diet, but you are not getting the results you want make sure you have not overlooked the most important aspect in holistic healing and that is the observation, recontextualization and relinquishment of fear. Unconscious fear is the precursor to stress and in the stress response all healing systems in the body-mind complex are shut down so as to face the present danger, the problem is that this ‘present danger’ is stemming from perception and usually has to do with fear of some hypothetical potentially threatening event in the future. The true spiritual seeker who desires wholeness, health and peace has not even one second to waste on fear. Walk right into the fear energy and stare it right in the face. Negativity in all it’s forms stems from fear. Guilt, shame, greed, lust and pride will destroy your desire for true health. Perfect the Love and Faith through the path of Devotion. Open your entire being fully to this moment with courage, receptivity, humility and appreciation. Radiant Health on every level is possible for you if you are willing to follow the path of UNCONDITIONAL LOVE."

- Dan Mcdonald (via rawlivingfoods)

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Bling for kids being sold near Flatbush. Betcha won’t see this crap in Park Slope…
Yes!
gladrags70s:

Qiana - 1974
gladrags70s:

Qiana - 1974
gladrags70s:

Qiana - 1974
gladrags70s:

Qiana - 1974
hagleydigital:

Donald Brooks dress in ‘Qiana’ nylon, 1972

Click to see more information about our upcoming exhibit: Fashion Meets Science: Introducing Nylon
mfeltonn:

America is still unable to have an honest conversation about race.  

 
Historians of Netherlandish Art review: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art and slavery
Larry SilverUniversity of Pennsylvania
See the very interesting Historians of Netherlandish Art site
Deticated to the Study of Netherlandish, German and Franco-Flemish Art and Architecture
: http://www.hnanews.org/hna/bookreview/current/nl_mcgrath-massing0113.html