Kate Bomdiggity

Watch full documentary on Bi Kidude “As Old as my...

Tue, 14 May 2013 17:12:27 -0400

Watch full documentary on Bi Kidude “As Old as my Tongue” for a limited time only !

I just watched this, I highly recommend it.

P/w: “hitima”

When in Santa Monica….Havana Mverte is a month long (April...

Mon, 13 May 2013 23:04:00 -0400

When in Santa Monica….Havana Mverte is a month long (April 19th-May 19th) multimedia exhibit about modern Cuban culture.

featuring work by

Ana Alejandra Alpizar
Giliam De la Torre
Gloria Dios
Behrad Gramian
Ayden Grout
Patrick H. Murphy
Semantha Norris
Alden Peters
Tanya Sleiman
Alex Smith
Gabriella Tessitore

2821 Ocean Park Blvd, Santa Monica, CA 90405

Yo check out my favorite made in Africa brands & peoples at...

Mon, 06 May 2013 23:50:09 -0400

Yo check out my favorite made in Africa brands & peoples at @urbanoutfitters this thurs : come party!!! #Bazaaar #kickoff #NYC @_mikuti @africanlookbook @chichiagram #weoutchea #popupbehavior #thehomies

“this documentary was produced in 2011 when we buried...

Mon, 06 May 2013 14:29:50 -0400

“this documentary was produced in 2011 when we buried Noxolo Nogwaza in KwaThema, Ekurhuleni, Johannesburg.

She was a 24 year old mother of two children who were then orphaned by hate crime related incident.

It is in different languages: Xhosa, English and Zulu.”

A powerful archive of a precious life lost due to hate crime. Black Lesbians in South Africa constantly live in fear, torture, and death by assailants who roam freely, with no help from the government, no media presence, Zanele Muholi sets out to document the stories of black lesbians living in post-apartheid South Africa.

Full transcript and more found here

13 Cartoon Portraits of Legendary Blues Artists So good,...

Sun, 05 May 2013 21:14:20 -0400

13 Cartoon Portraits of Legendary Blues Artists

So good, you’d think illustrator William Stout made a deal with the devil

Life Returned: An Open Letter to Eve Ensler

Sat, 04 May 2013 14:03:02 -0400

Life Returned: An Open Letter to Eve Ensler:

chiefelk:

Dear Eve Ensler,

I want to start off by saying thank you. I appreciate the time you took to reach out to me, because I know you’re incredibly busy. I know there are much more important people in this world than myself, so I appreciate you engaging in dialogue with me and my colleague Kelleigh…

First woman on the FBI most wanted list: Assata Shakur: crime:...

Sat, 04 May 2013 11:34:21 -0400

First woman on the FBI most wanted list: Assata Shakur: crime: her mind! Prized at $2mil (Post black! we are right?) #AlutaKontinua #umisays

Photo

Fri, 03 May 2013 00:18:36 -0400

If societies think of me as sub-human today then I need to look...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:59:48 -0400

If societies think of me as sub-human today then I need to look for a solution to change society so it will accept me”. Josephat Toner
Albinos in Tanzania have traditionally been perceived as almost mythical beings. To some they are ghosts who cannot die; to others the result of a family curse. In 2007, after a disturbing wave of albino murders, a new myth is exposed: witch doctors are calling for albinos to be hunted, claiming their limbs will bring wealth and good fortune.
For Josephat Torner, an albino himself, the only choice is to take action. He packs his bags, farewells his family, and sets out across the country, visiting villages in the hope that by confronting the superstitions he can stop the killings. Along the way, he meets many albino children who have been taken from their homes, forced to live in hiding behind high walls - ‘One of the many things we have had to learn is to live in danger.’ Shot over six years, In the Shadow of the Sun is the story of a man who stands up to persecution, putting his life on the line to change the world in which he lives.

Frida by Senegalese photographer Omar Viktor Diop shot in...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:09:57 -0400

Frida by Senegalese photographer Omar Viktor Diop shot in Abidjan. #instalove

aishigray: Kahlil Joseph’s Film Meditates on the Origins of an...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:51:00 -0400

aishigray:

Kahlil Joseph’s Film Meditates on the Origins of an All-Black Rodeo in Oklahoma

A dreamlike narrative binds cowboy and an angelic specter clad in white in director Kahlil Joseph’s exploration of a little-known African-American rodeo subculture. Joseph, who is part of the Los Angeles-based What Matters Most film collective, visited the annual August rodeo in the sparsely populated Oklahoma town of Grayson (previously Wildcat), an event that attracts African-American bull riders, barrel racers and cowgirls from all over the Midwest and southern USA. He set out to celebrate the origins of the rodeo by paying respect to the spirit of Aunt Janet, a member of the family who founded the event, passed away last year and is embodied as the young girl in the film. “Black people are light years more advanced than the ideas and images that circulate would have you believe. The spaces we control and exist are my ground zero for filming, at least so far, and there are opportunities for me to tap into the energy,” says Joseph who has also made films for musicians including Shabazz Palaces and Seu Jorge. “So an all-black town with an all-black rodeo in the American heartland was a kind of vortex or portal through which I could actually show this.” Wildcat is scored by experimental musician Flying Lotus, who has previously collaborated with Joseph on a short to accompany his 2012 album Until the Quiet Comes, which is showing during Sundance London this weekend.

venusx: NEW YORK MAY 7TH

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 21:51:58 -0400

venusx:

NEW YORK MAY 7TH

Only 11 days to go! Document the self- Life Histories in...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:41:05 -0400

Only 11 days to go! Document the self- Life Histories in Limpopo

Maya wants to Spend the summer in Limpopo province, South Africa where she will collect life histories, intern at the Legal Resources Center and publish her findings. Only thing stopping her is she needs funding, please spread the word and lets support such brilliant young minds that want to spend their summers documenting our own stories!

All the best Maya!

Indiegogo

Kate Bomdiggity on Africa.com #phuckyoeditorsedition #shameless...

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:56:28 -0400

Kate Bomdiggity on Africa.com #phuckyoeditorsedition #shameless #selfpromotion (at Washington, DC)

Still I rise- Maya Angelou

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 17:01:37 -0400

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I’ll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.

Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don’t you take it awful hard
‘Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own back yard.

You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I’ve got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise

npr: In spite of the brass ceiling, numerous female artists —...

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 15:36:34 -0400

npr:

In spite of the brass ceiling, numerous female artists — such as trombonist and arranger Melba Liston, conductor Ina Ray Hutton, vibraphonist Marjorie Hyams, pianist Marian McPartland and guitarist Mary Osborne — managed to make significant contributions. Today the environment is more hospitable for female musicians, exemplified recently by drummer Terri Lyne Carrington’s all-woman album The Mosaic Project grabbing top Grammy honors for Best Jazz Vocal album in 2012.

Here are five more women (two of them alive and active) who have left their mark on jazz history in leadership roles: The Women In Charge Of The Band : A Blog Supreme

Photo: William Gottlieb/The Library of Congress

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Nice work if you can get it. — tanya b.

Thomas & Mariam Sankara’s wedding

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 22:10:30 -0400

Thomas & Mariam Sankara’s wedding

If you dont like someones story, you write your own- Chinua...

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:35:18 -0400

If you dont like someones story, you write your own- Chinua Achebe

Dopest thing I’ve seen all day! #Forevernina...

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 03:36:34 -0400

Dopest thing I’ve seen all day! #Forevernina @alldopedotcom #nofilter (at West Philly)

ikirejones: Vigilism x Ikiré Jones present “Escape to New...

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 13:19:10 -0400

ikirejones:

Vigilism x Ikiré Jones present “Escape to New Lagos.”

An imagining of Lagos in the year 2081 A.D. The Great Crude Explosion has just occurred; leaving oil flowing freely through the streets of the slums. Politicians have been exiled at the heels of bomb blasts and the populace’s uprising. The building of a new Center of the World has begun, much to the bewilderment of Western nations. This is the birth of New Lagos…and men of taste are wearing Ikiré Jones.