We Keep Us Safe - Solidarity rooted in Marronage

We are a mutual aide network building collective power. [email protected]

[Nina vs. the World @ninamonei]

LOVE PEOPLE WHO KEEP THE PRESSURE ON 🔥

[Great House @xspotsdamark]

Europeans used to recruit West African divers to salvage sunken treasure because West Africans were reputed to be the best swimmers in the world & could hold their breath underwater the longest.
I don’t know why this myth that Black people can’t swim persists

[For Africans By Africans @forafricxns]

Seen in Sudan by @abudigana10

[Tamorah Shareef Muhammad @ModestyQueen19]

Mother Rosa Parks joins Mother Khadijah Farrakhan and Dr. Betty Shabazz at the Million Man March, October 16, 1995.

[Nina vs. the World @ninamonei]

Antiblack childism has a belief Black children are “born bad” and brutality is a cure- that our kids, especially boys, require “badness” beaten out to be “good”. People can’t see constant abuse and dehumanization is *creating* the “monsters” they fear bc they hate Black children.

[Nina vs. the World @ninamonei]

Mutual aid builds power and infrastructure. Everybody participates, everyone is accountable to operations and principles of a shared practice. I rarely see mutual aid bc I rarely see practices that engage people they serve as participants + decision makers, just a lot of charity.

[BlackHistoryStudies @BlkHistStudies]

“We are trying to heal from past wounds while we are trying to heal from present wounds, so we don't heal. Significant life-threatening events alter genes. We need to be well for the generations to come.” - Dr. Joy Degruy #reparations #healing #trauma

[United Africa @United_Africanz]

American civil right activist Nina Simone speaks about Africa and it's civilization...🌍

[SiriusXM Urban View @UrbanViewRadio]

Happy Birthday, Mavis Staples!!

#UrbanViewMornings

[Great House @xspotsdamark]

I’m watching this Colombia game, & an Afro-Colombian player, Yerry Mina, subs in for another Afro-Colombian, Jhon Lucumi, & my mind is just blown.
Mina is what Portuguese called enslaved West Africans from the Gold Coast because many of them were shipped from the slave fort El Mina in Ghana. And Lucumi comes from the Yoruba phrase Olu Kumi, meaning “My friend”, which is what enslaved Yoruba called each other in the Americas. Fascinating🤯

[Nina vs. the World @ninamonei]

The belief in some perfect way of living where “individual choices” can and do make you safe from antiblackness every Black ass body else suffers is antiblack too. Mfs look for ways antiblack violence is the fault of Black people’s “choices” bc they think they’re special niggas.

[war._crzy @JonnyLongbapz]

The Gullah culture alone is proof that were undeniably African.

[Harry Triple O @HarryO1975]

@BeeSaysPolitics @MUSICANDBUILDS @Alexand69624490 @alwaysSFTC @Bone24A79 @DFiosa @markshi54717061 @Omowale99949437 @GeneralNikkiX @joe_m26 @Asim_the_Great @BeeSaysPolitics The empowerment and repair of the Black community of Black America isn't going to come from wishful thinking. It isn't going to come from AmeriKKKa's government. It will only come Black unity, mind, knowledge, planning and organization.

[Nina vs. the World @ninamonei]

I will forever hold the line that a communist is a person actively advancing a communist state and a revolutionary is a person actively engaged in revolutionary struggle, not someone who “reads about” and likes ideas and does charity sometimes. https://t.co/8wsdWfhRC1

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

“I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.”

— John Coltrane

[GullahMuseumSC @GullahSc]

Peoples living in the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor know what I’m cooking for breakfast on the Fourth of July! This recipe is older than our country! (Our red rice and our Louisiana cousins’ jambalaya are Africanisms.)

[GullahMuseumSC @GullahSc]

Happy Amistad Slave Revolt Day! On this day in 1839, a rice farmer named Sengbe Pieh—also known as Joseph Cinqué—led the African captives aboard the slave ship La Amistad in a revolt, breaking free from their chains and seizing the ship. Let’s get into some slave resistance!

[Dwayne Omowale @DOmowale]

After slavery ended in Barbuda, the Africans there were free to develop their own system. What they developed was a communal land system in which the land is owned collectively. For the past several years the people of Barbuda have been struggling to protect this system against efforts to overturn it.

[NEWS LION @NewsLionSA]

Africa’s elites have been Westernised, says Kenyan scholar Prof Wandia Njoya. They rise on the back of foreign degrees rather than hard work and local expertise. Citing philosopher Lewis Gordon, she blasts "elitists" who've ruled for decades without serving real public interests. True excellence, Njoya insists, means solving people's daily struggles – not just collecting certificates. Hard to disagree?

#Kenya #politics #PanAfricanism #Traore #Decolonisation #Community #Leadership #Elitism #Africanism #AfricaWakeUp #Njoya