Evolution of Elle

Ms. Varner does it again… Elle Varner - So fly

This Can’t Be a Crime - Cocaine 80s … so mellow

fyeahblackhistory:

Happy Belated birthday Toussaint Louverture born May 20th 1743

colorful-history:

François-Dominique Toussaint Louverture (ca.1743-1803) was the leader of the Haitian Revolution, the only successful slave insurrection. In 1791, upset by the revoking of The Declaration of the Rights of Man, slaves all across Saint-Domingue (modern day Haiti) began to rebel. Although free and prosperous at the time of the revolts, Louverture abandoned this comfort in order to use his military genius to lead a slave army that would defeat the French, Spanish, and English. In 1793, the French voted to end slavery in their colonies, happy with this decision, Louverture agreed to expel the Spanish and British for the French, and managed to do so in a period of 7 days. When Napoleon came to power he reinstated slavery, which caused the blacks of Saint-Domingue to rebel once more. By 1803, having grown sick of these revolts, Napoleon declared he would recognize Saint-Domingue as independent, so long as Louverture promised to retreat from public life afterwards. When it came time for them to meet for negotiations, Napoleon broke his deal and had Louverture arrested; he would die in jail. The damage had already been done, and the rebellions still raged on under the command of his 1^st lieutenant Jean-Jacques Dessalines, and 6 months later Napoleon would grant them their freedom, birthing the first free black Republic in the new World.

africastyleinsider:

Okunoren Twins

I love this place ❤❤❤ (Taken with instagram)

myintrovertedmind:

Katanga’s “forgotten people”

In the 1970s, several Japanese men (possibly more than a thousand) lived in the region of Katanga in DRC working at the mines.
These men were…well, just men. So, far away from home, a lot of those single men found themselves beautiful partners among the congolese women and mixed couples were formed. Obviously, women got pregnant and biracial babies were soon born.
However, even though they gave birth to healthy babies, most of the women saw their semi-japanese offspring ending up mysteriously dead. The women, and others, believe that Japanese doctors, with the consent of the miners, were responsible for killing these babies because the constitution of their country was against any blood mix. Not only they did not want to return to Japan with them but they did not want to leave any trail either.
Some of those Blasian children survived only cause given birth in the “bush” hidden from any japanese doctors by grandparents fearing for their lives.
These surviving children, now grown up have formed a organisation and are seeking closure. Apparently there are 50 children who survived but there are no details on the number of children that died.

fyeahafrica:

Portraits of people from Northern Kenya taken by John Kenny

fyeahblackhistory:

African Queens

Excerpt from Max Dashu’s Women’s Power dvd, from the suppressed Histories Archives

Africa is rich in positive female history and famous for its queens.

Queen Yaa Asantewaa, Queen Nzingha, Queen Hatshepsut, Queen Nefetari and Queen Cleopatra.

typicalugandan:

“African Beauty Queens”

10th November 1967: Four contestants from Africa line up at their London hotel before the 1967 Miss World beauty contest.

From left to right, they are Miss Tanzania (Teresa Shayo), Miss Uganda (Rosemary Salmon), Miss Nigeria (Rosalind Balogun) and Miss Ghana (Araba Vroon).

(Photo by Leonard Burt/Central Press/Getty Images)

mydaguerreotypeboyfriend:

Frederick Douglass in his early-twenties, c. 1847 by Samuel J. Miller. (Art Institute of Chicago)

John 14:6 (Taken with instagram)

🍻 to best friends!! (Taken with instagram)

100 In a Year… Update

1. Take better care of my body
2. Join a gym (1/5/12)
3. Attempt to go with the flow
4. Form a stronger spiritual bond with God
5. Read my bible more
6. Close some unhealthy, stifling opened doors (done)
7. Evaluate broken relationships and determine if they are necessary to mend (done)
8. If in the situation, don’t disappear from a situation, explain thoroughly why I chose to separate myself
9. Volunteer more
10. Find a cause and advocate it wholeheartedly!
11. Develop a hobby
12. Take myself to the movies
13. Attend a professional sports game
14. Start a savings system and stick to it (done)
15. Attempt to be more social
16. Wash my car at least one a month.
17. Eat at TEN restaurants that I’ve never been to (EA Thai 1/10, Steel 2/7)
18. Eradicate my “Equal Opportunity” policy
19. Read 60% of the books on my bookshelf that I haven’t read.
20. Remember my 24th birthday… Including 100% of the festivities
21. Cook consistently for an entire week
22. Try 10 new recipes (1/10)
23. Keep in better contact with friends
24. Don’t cut my hair the entire year (trims excluded)
25. Wear ALL of my shoes, at least once.
26. Attend church for 10 consecutive sundays
27. Go to bible study
28. Get a passport (1/18/12)
29. Go 31 days without alcohol
30. Take a trip to Savannah, GA (St. Pattys)
31. Take a trip to Nashville, TN
32. Go on a date with someone outside my race
33. Do something outside of my comfort zone (5/26 - 6/19)
34. Eat breakfast for a month
35. Be stress-free for 7 consecutive days
36. Live aimlessly for 7 consecutive days
37. Be punctual for 30 events (9/30)
38. Remove myself from the electronic world, once a month
39. Remodel my apartment
40. Be slow to spend money
41. Realistically clean out closet TWICE a year
42. Spend more time with my niece and nephew
43. Resuscitate my dating life before it flat lines
44. Cut out on sodas
45. Fast on something for lent.. Stick to it
46. Finish my table
47. Bake a cake
48. Bake peach cobbler (1/1/12)
49. Take a “me” day once a month
50. DO NOT buy another phone until my contract is up
51. Refrain from shopping for clothing and shoes for me for 60 days
52. Go to a halloween party
53. Go to the velvet room on a sunday
54. Permanently deactivate my facebook OR twitter account
55. Lose 10 pounds (start 157)
56. At the end of this semester and fall semester (fall 2012), have no more than a 10% failure rate.
57. Play an educational game with students at least once a week.
58. Complete at least half of my wants/needs list
59. Instead of buying books, visit library.
60. Stop biting my nails (done)
61. Buy a blender (1/3/12)
62. Buy a new microwave
63. Be responsible with my income tax check (done)
64. Write down my five-yr plan
65 . Write down “the list”
66. Cook with a crock-pot
67. Attend a teacher’s institute during the summer (done)
68. Create a decorum board
69. Create an electronic photo album
70. Update pictures in frames
71. Attend a wine tasting
72. Go zip-lining
73. Create my own smoothie (jan)
74. Create my own cocktail
75. Celebrate Kwanzaa
76. Update Ph. D. plans (done)
77. Go to a lady doctor (4.3.12)
78. Stop eating after 9
79. Learn how to make jello shots
80. Go to the Atl History Center (12/27)
81. Learn how to make cheesecake
82. Keep up with a small umbrella
83. Go on a picnic with CSA
84. Organize my “important papers trunk”
85. Go 10 places I’ve never been  (7/10) (mjq, dugans, hole in the wall, EA Thai and Sushi, bar in highlands, party room, pole le teaz)
86. Watch a scary movie (1/1/12)
87. Create more student-centered lessons
88. Look into investing
89. Read a book on a subject outside of my interest
90. Go to the beach
91. Go to a play
92. Buy MJ experience
93. Minimize my beef and pork intake
94. Drink eggnog
95. Go on a roadtrip (feb, st. Pattys)
96. Try food from a different culture that I’ve never experienced. (Cafe istanbul)
97. Attempt to break a bad habit
98. Paint a painting or create a piece of pottery
99. Start eating breakfast
100. Go to a chiropractor

I’ve done more than I expected….

The president and his mother… Lawd (Taken with instagram)