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13 Year Old Jada Williams Persecuted by the... →

dreamhard: racismschool: beautifulbrwn: “On Saturday, February 18, 2012, the Frederick Douglass Foundation of New York presented the first Spirit of Freedom award to Jada Williams, a 13-year old city of Rochester student. Miss Williams wrote an essay on her impressions of Frederick Douglass’ first autobiography the Narrative of the Life. This was part of an essay contest, but her essay was...

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TODAY IN BLACK HISTORY!!!

Today in Black History in 1940 Hattie McDaniel known for her supporting roles became the first African American to win the Oscar Award for her role as ‘Mammy’in the movie ‘Gone With The Wind’. Not only was she the first African American to receive this award, but the was the only woman to have received it until Whoopi Goldberg received the same award for her role in the...

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virtuouslyvindicated: LMBOOOOOOOO!!! SIRI!!! OH GOSH!! ROTFLMBO WOW

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10 Things Grown Women Shouldn’t Do – Part Two...

#6 Stop getting overly frustrated when you are faced with things you can control – and the things you can’t. When I have a problem to solve, I feel anxious, even when the solution is fairly straightforward. And this must stop. And when I don’t have the solution or I’m not the one who can solve the problem? I need to be stressed about it even less. Think about it. Stress is your body’s response to...

Feb 16th

10 Things Grown Women Shouldn’t Do – Part One

I turned 26 a month or so ago. And now that I’m closer to 30 than I am to 20, I’m feeling some kind of way about the behaviors I exhibit and my reactions to every day events. Somehow I feel like I’m supposed to be wiser, calmer, more she’s-got-her-life-together than I really am. Some days I wake up and I’m like, “Crap, I’m an adult? Like, really? Wasn’t I just leaving the spring dance in a huff...

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Madea Simmons @MadeaSimmons_ Close You don’t have a valentine on valentines day? Some people don’t have a mother on mother’s day or a father on father’s day so shut up.

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