In An Orderly Fashion

January 10, 2013

peakblackness:

MALCOLM AND MAYA
Circa 1964 Ghana, where Maya had been living since 1962.
“Many years earlier I, or rather someone very like me and certainly related to me, had been taken from Africa by force. This second leave-taking would not be so onerous, for now I knew my people had never completely left Africa. We had sung it in our blues, shouted it in our gospel and danced the continent in our breakdowns. As we carried it to Philadelphia, Boston and Birmingham we had changed its color, modified its rhythms, yet it was Africa which rode in the bulges of our high calves, shook in our protruding behinds and crackled in our wide open laughter. I could nearly hear the old ones chuckling.” -from All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes, which chronicles Angelou’s time in the West African country.

MALCOLM AND MAYA

Circa 1964 Ghana, where Maya had been living since 1962.

“Many years earlier I, or rather someone very like me and certainly related to me, had been taken from Africa by force. This second leave-taking would not be so onerous, for now I knew my people had never completely left Africa. We had sung it in our blues, shouted it in our gospel and danced the continent in our breakdowns. As we carried it to Philadelphia, Boston and Birmingham we had changed its color, modified its rhythms, yet it was Africa which rode in the bulges of our high calves, shook in our protruding behinds and crackled in our wide open laughter. I could nearly hear the old ones chuckling.” -from All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes, which chronicles Angelou’s time in the West African country.

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(Notes: 42)

January 6, 2013

peakblackness:

MALCOLM AND MAYA

Circa 1964 Ghana, where Maya had been living since 1962.

“Many years earlier I, or rather someone very like me and certainly related to me, had been taken from Africa by force. This second leave-taking would not be so onerous, for now I knew my people had never completely left Africa. We had sung it in our blues, shouted it in our gospel and danced the continent in our breakdowns. As we carried it to Philadelphia, Boston and Birmingham we had changed its color, modified its rhythms, yet it was Africa which rode in the bulges of our high calves, shook in our protruding behinds and crackled in our wide open laughter. I could nearly hear the old ones chuckling.” -from All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes, which chronicles Angelou’s time in the West African country

3:14pm | URL: http://tmblr.co/ZHU4Exb7uOTY

(Notes: 42)

Filed under: Malcolm X Maya Angelou the 60's photography Africa African Americans

October 24, 2012

davidmosegi:

“Anytime you beg another man to set you free, you will never be free. Freedom is something that you have to do for yourself.”

-Malcolm X

(Source: worshipblkgods)

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(Notes: 78)

Filed under: Malcolm X freedom

October 2, 2012

nonafaustine:

I liked when he smiled or laughed. That brought him down to earth, that made him more human, because the man loomed like a God. When he stared more like glared, when he was speaking or walking he was so large in his character that when you saw him smile it disarmed many a person. I wish I could have met you. To talk with you, to have a conversation in some out of the way cafe. Have a range of topics from the silly to the serious. Just to hear your voice in person. I can see you in my mind sitting there looking back at me, but it’s the younger version that I see not the old man you didn’t get to become. Feeling the loss… happy birthday Malcolm

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(Notes: 5)

Filed under: Malcolm X human

September 24, 2012

Astrophysicist Hakeem Oluseyi lecturing about The Big Bang at a TED conference in 2010

“You see, most whites never feel that Negroes can contribute anything to other areas of thought, and ideas. You just notice how rarely you will ever hear whites asking any Negroes what they think about the problem of world health, or the space race to land men on the moon.” -Malcolm X

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(Notes: 6)

Filed under: Hakeem Oluseyi astrophysicist black man American Malcolm X the big bang

September 24, 2012

hansonperspective:

El-Hajj Malik Shabazz in prayer. MashaAllah

(Source: ghanaian-and-a-half)

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(Notes: 11)

Filed under: Malcolm X

September 20, 2012

Malcolm X photographing Muhammad Ali surrounded by fans after he beat Sonny Liston for the Heavy Weight Championship, Miami, February 1964

photographed by Bob Gomel

7:14pm | URL: http://tmblr.co/ZHU4ExTmIi_u

(Notes: 47)

Filed under: Malcolm X Muhammad Ali black men the 60's Bob Gomel photography

September 16, 2012

youaintpunk:

The day Malcolm X visited Birmingham

I was looking into this story I heard which I couldn’t actually believe. Namely that a Conservative Party member - Peter Griffiths - won the Smethick seat in the 1964 election with the slogan: ‘If you want a nigger for a neighbour, vote Labour.’

Fucking shameful.

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(Notes: 18)

Filed under: Malcolm X

June 6, 2012