NI AQUÍ, NI ALLÁ

kemetically-afrolatino: Watch the story (warning: ignorant...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:39:38 -0400

Watch the story (warning: ignorant racist youtube title)

Raw video of incident

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#newjimcrow

Black is beautiful

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:37:36 -0400

Black is beautiful

"There are the green-eyed Mexicans. The rich blond Mexicans. The Mexicans with the faces of Arab..."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:37:27 -0400

“There are the green-eyed Mexicans. The rich blond Mexicans. The Mexicans with the faces of...

fuckyeahmarxismleninism: Woman will be 500th execution since...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:36:20 -0400

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

Woman will be 500th execution since Texas resumed death penalty

Barring a last-minute stay, Kimberly McCarthy on June 26 will become the 500th Texas killer to be executed since the state re-activated the death penalty in 1976. Texas leads the nation’s 33 death penalty states in executions, killing more than the next five most active states combined.

Virginia, with 110 executions, places second.

Minutes before the killing hour, McCarthy, 52, condemned for the 1997 murder-robbery of a 70-year-old Dallas County woman, will be strapped to a gurney in a room deep within the 164-year-old prison. Then, as a warden and chaplain stand silently nearby, she will be injected with a lethal dose of a drug commonly used to euthanize cats and dogs.

McCarthy, a one-time occupational therapist and home health care worker, will be the fourth woman in Texas executed by injection.

Supported by law since Texas’ earliest days, executions like hers remain at the heart of a raging dispute pitting most Texans against an array of death penalty opponents here and abroad.

kemetically-afrolatino: Read the FREE version online Watch the...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 01:10:43 -0400

kemetically-afrolatino:

Read the FREE version online

Watch the (rare) TV documentary “Day of the Gun” here or here

Watch the movie about Jackson Black August here

get inspired

Open Veins of Latin America (e-reader)

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 01:10:10 -0400

Open Veins of Latin America (e-reader):...

fylatinamericanhistory: Today In Latin American History Over...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 01:09:53 -0400

fylatinamericanhistory:

Today In Latin American History

Over 300 people died and hundreds more are injured after members of the Argentine Naval Aviation bomb the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires during a failed coup d’état against the government of Argentinian president Juan Perón.

kemetically-afrolatino: Moyenei Valdes - Somos Paz (we Are...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 01:09:08 -0400

kemetically-afrolatino:

Moyenei Valdes - Somos Paz (we Are Peace)

just perfect sound and revolutionary lyrics

Kemetically Afro-Latino: Africa vs. Afrika

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 01:08:01 -0400

Kemetically Afro-Latino: Africa vs. Afrika:...

Black Contemporary Art Julien Sinzogan was born in 1957 in...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 20:49:15 -0400

Black Contemporary Art

Julien Sinzogan was born in 1957 in Porto-Novo, Republic of Benin. He studied architecture in Paris at the École Spéciale des Travaux Public, and lives and works in France.

Sinzogan’s work expresses the way of life informed and inspired by the Yoruba divinatory and religious system known as Ifa. The Yoruba people of Nigeria and Benin in West Africa see life as taking a cyclical trajectory through which individuals experience the tangible world (aye), depart to the spirit world (orun) and are reborn. Sinzogan’s works explore the journeys between these different but closely related worlds. The voyages between such realms lie at the heart of religious practice across much of the Atlantic world, a world forever shaped by another voyage: the middle passage of the Atlantic slave trade.

Omar Ba is a Senegalese artist who holds a degree from l’Ecole Nationale des Beaux-arts de Dakar, and has been living in Geneva, Switzerland, since 2003, where he completed an MA at the Ecole Superieure des Beaux-Arts.

He has since has participated in four separate exhibitions at the Galerie Anne De Villepoix, as well as the Guy Bartschi gallery, and in 2011 won the prestigious Swiss Art Award.

Omar Ba’s paintings present a colorful, fantastic, at times chaotic world where the order of things as we perceive them in the visible world is turned on its head. Giant plants tower over a miniature human world gripped by globalization; huge mother and father figures become hybrid godlike creatures at once terrifying and seductive because of the sheer beauty of Omar Ba’s craftsmanship and decorative use of saturated color.

dreaminginspanish: afrospain: Kiriku Y La Bruja Dibujos para...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 20:48:31 -0400

dreaminginspanish:

afrospain:

Kiriku Y La Bruja

Dibujos para los mas pequeños.

Estas son las cosas que de pequeños nos hacen falta, sobretodo a los Afros que crecemos en Babylon sin ningun tipo de referencia.

Cada uno enseña a UNO

Movie in Spanish but it can be found in English on Youtube.

A beautiful animated movie that deals with West African folktales.

reclaimingthelatinatag: Some of our favorite Latina plus-size...

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 20:45:48 -0400

Denise Bidot

Nicole Esperanza Zepeda

Rosie Mercado

Fluvia Lacerda

Natalie Monet

Jakaliene Rivera

Grisel Paula

reclaimingthelatinatag:

Some of our favorite Latina plus-size models (in clock wise order):

Puerto Rican Denise Bidot.

Of Mexican descent Nicole Esperanza Zepeda.

Mexican-American Rosie Mercado.

Brazilian Fluvia Lacerda.

Puerto Rican Natalie Monet.

Puerto Rican Jakaliene Rivera.

Dominican Grisel Paula.

fuckyeahmarxismleninism: Turkish police storm Taksim...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 08:39:49 -0400

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

Turkish police storm Taksim Square

ISTANBUL - Turkish riot police fired water cannon and teargas at hundreds of protesters in Istanbul’s Taksim Square on Tuesday, Reuters witnesses said, entering the square for the first time since demonstrations against plans to develop a park there turned violent.

The police move came after Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan agreed to meet protest leaders, whose peaceful demonstrations two weeks ago spiralled into protests against his government in which three people have been killed and about 5,000 hurt.

Police removed protesters’ banners from a building overlooking the square and the local governor said police had no intention of breaking up the protest in adjoining Gezi Park.

“Our aim is to remove the signs and pictures on Ataturk statue and the Ataturk Cultural Centre. We have no other aim,” Istanbul Governor Huseyin Avni Mutlu wrote on Twitter. “Gezi Park and Taksim will not be touched.”

Police hung a single Turkish flag and a picture of modern Turkey’s founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk from the building.

Crowd control vehicles fired water cannon against groups of protesters who threw stones, fireworks and petrol bombs at the police. Nearby, hundreds more protesters, wearing face masks to protect against the effects of teargas, gathered on steps leading from the square to the park.

“Every place is Taksim, every place resistance,” the protesters chanted.

dreaminginspanish: I need y’all to listen to me. Read this book: Women Warriors of the Afro-Latina...

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 20:08:35 -0400

dreaminginspanish: I need y’all to listen to me. Read this book: Women Warriors of the Afro-Latina...

fuckyeahmarxismleninism: New York City War Against Racism

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 20:05:59 -0400

fuckyeahmarxismleninism:

New York City

War Against Racism

punkqueer: Three months in creation, I present you Muchacha...

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 20:04:29 -0400

punkqueer:

Three months in creation, I present you Muchacha Fanzine’s fifth issue “Brown Queen: Latina Voices of the 21st Century”. Intended to honor, celebrate and promote the artistic visions of Latinas, this 50 pg edition features beautiful poetry, heartfelt short stories, powerful essays, awe-aspiring artwork, unique photography and a breathtaking performance piece from 24 diverse self-identified Latinas, Chicanas, Hispanics and Afro-Latinas. This issue also spotlights a 5-page interview with artist Cristy C. Road about her most recent graphic novel Spit and Passion, zine subcultures between the 90’s and now, spirituality and how she has learned to navigate her identity as a queer punk woman of color.

Get your copy here!

Brown Queen

kemetically-afrolatino: Philadelphia adopting ‘doomsday’ 23...

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 07:30:45 -0400

kemetically-afrolatino:

Philadelphia adopting ‘doomsday’ 23 school-slashing plan despite $400 million prison project

“…the racial disparities in the education system and prison complex, where 60 per cent of all people are of color, have created a literal “school-to-prison-pipeline.”

“In Philadelphia, black students comprise 81% of those who will be impacted by the closings despite accounting for just 58% of the overall student population,”

“In stark contrast, just 4% of those affected are white kids who make up 14% of Philly students. And though they make up 81%of Philadelphia students, 93% of kids affected by the closings are low-income.”

—Journalist Rhania Khalek

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intellectualthings: Black Contemporary Art Julien Sinzogan was...

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 07:30:13 -0400

intellectualthings:

Black Contemporary Art

Julien Sinzogan was born in 1957 in Porto-Novo, Republic of Benin. He studied architecture in Paris at the École Spéciale des Travaux Public, and lives and works in France.

Sinzogan’s work expresses the way of life informed and inspired by the Yoruba divinatory and religious system known as Ifa. The Yoruba people of Nigeria and Benin in West Africa see life as taking a cyclical trajectory through which individuals experience the tangible world (aye), depart to the spirit world (orun) and are reborn. Sinzogan’s works explore the journeys between these different but closely related worlds. The voyages between such realms lie at the heart of religious practice across much of the Atlantic world, a world forever shaped by another voyage: the middle passage of the Atlantic slave trade.

Omar Ba is a Senegalese artist who holds a degree from l’Ecole Nationale des Beaux-arts de Dakar, and has been living in Geneva, Switzerland, since 2003, where he completed an MA at the Ecole Superieure des Beaux-Arts.

He has since has participated in four separate exhibitions at the Galerie Anne De Villepoix, as well as the Guy Bartschi gallery, and in 2011 won the prestigious Swiss Art Award.

Omar Ba’s paintings present a colorful, fantastic, at times chaotic world where the order of things as we perceive them in the visible world is turned on its head. Giant plants tower over a miniature human world gripped by globalization; huge mother and father figures become hybrid godlike creatures at once terrifying and seductive because of the sheer beauty of Omar Ba’s craftsmanship and decorative use of saturated color.

caffeinatedriot: Yes. Yes. Yes. Everything about this song is...

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 10:03:29 -0400

caffeinatedriot:

Yes. Yes. Yes. Everything about this song is just so right.

"I needed to make sure that my children understood that we are perfect. That we came to the world..."

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 10:02:46 -0400

“I needed to make sure that my children understood that we are perfect. That we came to the...