Stories In My Backyard

Amplifying the voices of Black womxn & girls ✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
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HAPPY INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE GIRL!!!🎉🎉🎉

We decided to celebrate with the virtual release of our nonprofit fundraiser and photo exhibit, SIMBY Presents: The Voices of Sisterly Affection by @thekyrawilliams!!!📸🙌🏾🖤 Check it out!⬇️

https://t.co/qQCdmyQFMp

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In partnership with @PSTV_SDP, Ruby & @thekyrawilliams have begun testing the 2-week version of our Exposure photography program with 7th grade girls from Hill-Freedman World Academy! 🎉☺️👏🏾

More ➡️ https://t.co/flrWh8inrl

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In 2022, our founder @thekyrawilliams received a $500 grant from @ShepherdDessa/ @BGirlVentures/ @NYUEntrepreneur to help us provide the representation that Black girls deserve in photography! 👏🏾

Now, we're bringing this vision to life in Philly middle schools! #StayTuned 😉📸

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When you support SIMBY, you support Black womxn educating Black girls; an intentional decision to provide our girls with representation and a sense of belonging that is often missing from their traditional and creative learning experiences. #GivingTuesday
https://t.co/iV0flysJAT

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Happy #GivingTuesday! 🤝🙏🏾🖤

This year, you can support #SIMBY by contributing to and checking out our nonprofit fundraiser and VR photo exhibit, SIMBY Presents: The Voices of Sisterly Affection by @thekyrawilliams! Thank you! #LinkInBio

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#FBF to our outdoor display of SIMBY Presents: The Voices of Sisterly Affection by @thekyrawilliams! The turn out was amazing!!! 🖤If you missed it, check out the VR exhibit & purchase prints/make a donation at the link ⬆️ Thank you for your support!🙏🏾https://t.co/C7NbE9Cr1l

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Black people, please take care of yourselves and one another as we continue to fight for our lives. 🙏🏾🖤✊🏾

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With the fatigue that we’re feeling from the countless names we have to say, the protests that never end, this Derek Chauvin trial, and the overall quest for justice that George Floyd’s murder reignited globally, we’re praying for his daughter, Gianna Floyd...

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Today’s guilty verdict for Chauvin is a step in the right direction but the process is not over with his sentencing scheduled in eight weeks. And let’s not forget the other murder trials that have yet to begin.

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#USvsBillieHoliday #Hulu #LeeDaniels #AndraDay #BillieHoliday #Biopic #BlackHerstory #BlackHistoryMonth #SocialChange #ProtestArt

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The United States vs. Billie Holiday, starring @AndraDayMusic, hits @hulu today just before the end of Black History Month!🙌🏾🖤

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This @leedaniels biopic unpacks the government’s racialized war on drugs and the effort to silence the legendary Philadelphia native known for her protest anthem against the lynching of Black bodies called “Strange Fruit.” Promo 🎥⬇️
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📸 & 🎥: #Repost @USvsBillie

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As an arts educator as well, she believes “that creativity is in all of us and with this exhibition and the drawing, the purpose is to inspire people to find their own creative pulse.” The Crayola IDEAworks: The Creativity Exhibition is now open for visitors to do just that!

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🚨#MondayMotivation Alert🚨
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The world’s largest drawing by an individual was made by a Black womxn; Philly’s own Dyymond Whipper-Young!! #BlackHerstory 🙌🏾🎉👏🏾 She recently set the new record by completing this 6,507 square foot piece of art in 63 hours for the @TheFranklin!

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If you know anyone who’d benefit from this @BeyGood x @adidas x Bread of Life initiative providing disaster relief to those impacted by the current winter storms, please share! 🙏🏾🖤 They’re providing emergency funding of <$1K. The app link is in our bio. ⬆️ #PrayForTexas

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The Queen made a timeless classic in 1998 and now she’s the first female rapper to sell 10,000,000 units!! Congratulations @MsLaurynHill! 🎉🙌🏾👑✍🏾 #Herstory #TheMiseducationOfLaurynHillGoesDiamond
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#Repost 🎥: @MsLaurynHill

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Thank you for sharing your gifts with us, Queens!!!🙏🏾🤎👏🏾
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#Brandy 📸: Instagram
#KellyRowland 📸: Baz
#YaraShahidi 📸: John C. Edmonds
#Repost 🎥

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We’re sending all the birthday love to three inspiring Black Queens: Brandy, Kelly Rowland, and Yara Shahidi (who celebrated yesterday)!!!🎉🤎👑🙌🏾
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@4everBrandy @KELLYROWLAND @YaraShahidi

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You can catch Yara Shahidi on the newest season of @grownish every Thursday night!!

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Kelly Rowland is celebrating her 40th and her new single “Black Magic” on IG live tonight!!