your relationship with yourself cannot be built entirely around improvement. at some point, you have to become someone you are allowed to enjoy being. you get to be proud of who you are. present tense
I will never forgive the world for hearing that migratory birds were changing their routes to stop in Sudan and feast on the dead bodies scattered across the streets and moving on with their lives as if that isn’t one of the worst things you can possibly imagine
70-year-old Johnny White suffered fractures to his nose, jaw, and orbital bone in an alleged attack prosecutors say followed weeks of racial threats and slurs. There are no words to describe just how horrific and heartbreaking this is! When our elders can be beaten and left bruised from this type of hate, it is a wound on all of us!
🎥: @TheRoot
Aaaaaaand THERE you go. What we all knew this was about. Like every authoritarian surveillance dystopia, it’s not about behavior or crime, but opposition to tyranny
An Arkansas state trooper told 18-year-old Alisa Hackett he was going to "tune her up," then slammed her to the ground and punched her in the face. This behavior from someone sworn to protect and serve is not acceptable!
We can't forget how Kohen Wiley was taken from his family. He was 1 year old when he was fatally shot by an officer responding to an alleged shoplifting call outside of a Walmart in Senatobia, Mississippi. His mother had to witness her innocent baby, who had barely begun to see this world, be killed. No parent should ever have to carry that image. Kohen deserved to grow up. His family deserves justice, and we will not stop fighting until they get it.
Kelela is proof that chasing your dream has no expiration date.
She didn't release her debut mixtape 'Cut 4 Me' until she was thirty. Now forty-three, @kelelam is still finding new listeners. On Apple Music radio, she spoke about the assumption that if you haven't made it by nineteen, you've missed your window. She shared, "I think we live in a culture of prodigiousness—if you don't do it out the gate, if you're not standing on a stage by the time you're 19, it might be over for you...I'm definitely proof that it's not over, guys."
Pushing past that feeling, she said, took real courage. Kelela is here to tell you that no one is too old, or too young, to make it happen. Pick up the mic, the MIDI, the instrument, etc. The time is now.