January 2012
42 posts
Stills // "BEND" →
kameelahwrites:
Select stills from the film “BEND” © Kameelah Janan Rasheed
December 2011
67 posts
Afrocentric Asians || B Spot || New Year's Eve! ||...
drewkeeed:
The B Spot (1123 Pennsylvania Ave SE Washington, DC)
NEW YEAR’S EVE 12/31/2011
FREE AT THE DOOR $20 cover
Bar/Smoothies/Good Food/All That
9pm-1am
Diko (drums)
Brian Farrow (bass)
Drew Kid (keys)
+ Special guest artists
Spread the word! It’s bouta be fun as hell
#DC An NYE party with NO cover? Well played.
Sighzers. It’s not free but $20 is still pretty cheap for a...
10 Ways to Love Others →
caitsmeissner:
thelittlesea:
Some guidelines for loving:
1. Tell them about their brilliance. They likely can’t see it and they don’t know its immensity, but you can see it, and you can illuminate it for them.
2. Be authentic, and give others the gift of the real you and a real relationship. Ask your real questions. Share your real beliefs. Go for your real dreams. Tell your truth.
3. Don’t...
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Ok, I think I'm done with the shallow blogging...
I was about to apologize for the flood of gorgeous brown men posts but what the hell sense would that make?
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An Oversimplification of Her Beauty by Terence... →
Dear Friends, Family, and Fans,
After over five years of hard work, our feature film, An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, will be making its world premier at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. That’s the good news…The challenge is that a rough cut of the film was accepted, so there is still a lot that needs to be done to get the film ready for the festival. There are still things...
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Peace
streetetiquette:
“Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark. Nobody knows what is going to happen to him from one moment to the next, or how one will bear it. This is irreducible. And it’s true of everybody. Now, it is true that the nature of society is to create, among its citizens, an illusion of safety; but it is also absolutely true that the safety is...
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“Wearing blue jeans, a brown sweatshirt and a matching baseball cap, an elderly...”
– Zurana Horton’s Murder Gives Brooklyn a Ground Zero of Gun Terror - COLORLINES
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Black and Female - The Marriage Question -... →
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Love.
chucklew:
What made him unfamiliar and dangerous was not his hatred for white people but his love for blacks, his apprehension of the horror of the black condition, and the reasons for it, and his determination so to work on their hearts and minds that they would be enabled to see their condition and change it themselves.
James Baldwin on Malcolm X.
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I want to kiss you. I want to take your face in my...
#welldamn
ETA: Who wrote this? I’d like to have attribution here.
