Category: Black History and Culture
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Lupita Nyong’o
Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds — Bob Marley, Redemption Song (lyrics adapted from a speech by the Honorable Marcus Garvey) While none but ourselves can free our minds, sometimes an image or a verse helps with the calibration process. Lupita Nyong’o’s tearful speech defining beauty at Essence’s 7th…
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Why I Stopped Being A Voluntourist
I don’t want a little girl in Ghana, or Sri Lanka, or Indonesia to think of me when she wakes up each morning. I don’t want her to thank me for her education or medical care or new clothes. Even if I am providing the funds to get the ball rolling, I want her to…
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Guiness Advertising featuring The Sapeurs (Society of Elegant Persons of the Congo)
“In life you cannot always choose what you do, but you can always choose who you are.” Peace, cultural and gender identity, nation building, community, trade, economics, genealogy and family through the vehicle of fashion. Read Adweek’s article “Ad of the Day: Congo’s Sapeurs Star in the Best-Dressed Guinness Commercial Ever: Central African elegance By David Griner.”…
Simone Monique Barnes 