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Young Teenage CEO Earning Over 100K Per Year!
17 year old Leanna Archer turned a family recipe into an international company. Archer started a line of natural hair and body care products when she was nine years old. Her mother would make a hair pomade using natural ingredients from Haiti and a secret recipe passed down from her great-grandmother. After getting multiple compliments on her hair, Leanna gave her friends a few samples of the pomade and from there the orders started pouring in. Archer is now making history earning an annual revenue of more than $100,000 per year.
As a young entrepreneur, public speaker and philanthropist. Archer has taken her experiences on the road, speaking to youth all over the country, and has been profiled in Forbes, Success Magazine, Ebony and other publications. She has been named on “Inc.” magazine’s 30 Under 30 list of top young entrepreneurs.Check out her appearance on The Jeff Probst Show.
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love love LOVE this! #BlackGirlsForever
YASSSSSSSSSSSSS
But millennials are narcissistic and lazy and don’t know how to work hard or succeed. Time Magazine told me so!
THE FUTURE, ladies, gentlemen and gentlefolk.
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I don’t need you to “tolerate” me. I don’t want you to merely put up with my presence. All I ask, all I have ever asked, is to be treated as a human being, that bigoted jingoism is not injected into every minute facet my life, that there remains at least the illusion of decency.
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most amazing words ever spoken.
Eartha Kitt, dropping some self-love realness.
I needed this.
forever
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Josephine Baker at Johann Strauss Theatre in Vienna, 1928
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A promotional photograph of dancer and musical comedy star Aida Overton Walker, who as some of you may recall was credited with popularizing the cakewalk.
Credit: Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library
Submitted by Lynn Mally (Irvine, CA)
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Representative Carrie Meek’s shirt reads: “A women’s place is in the House and the Senate.”
Carrie Meek (b. April 29, 1926) wore this prophetic T-shirt in the Florida House chamber in 1980, where she served from 1978 to 1983. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman elected to the Florida Senate. Meek later served in the United States Congress (1992-2001). Prior to her career in politics, she taught at Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach and Florida A&M University in Tallahassee.
Meek’s son, Kendrick Meek (b. September 6, 1966), was the U.S. Representative for Florida’s 17th congressional district from 2003 to 2011. He was the Democratic nominee in the 2010 Senate election for the seat of Mel Martinez, but he and Independent Charlie Crist lost in a three-way race to Republican Marco Rubio.
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How A Female Photographer Sees Her Afghanistan
Born in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 1984, photographer Farzana Wahidy was only a teenager when the Taliban took over the country in 1996. At age 13 she was beaten in the street for not wearing a burqa, she recalls, and she describes those years as a “very closed, very dark time.” To carry a camera would have been unthinkable.
And yet, she says, “I felt lucky compared to other women at that time.” Women were banned from continuing their education during Taliban rule. But some, like Farzana, found ways to keep studying. She would carry books under her burqa and attended what she calls an “underground school” with about 300 other students in a residential area of Kabul.
When U.S.-led forces ended Taliban rule in 2001, Wahidy was able to attend high school. A friend encouraged her to apply for a photojournalism program, knowing that she had hopes of sharing her experiences with the world.
“Day by day, as I started learning about photography, I fell more in love with it,” she says. “There was a huge need for women photographers in Afghanistan.”
Wahidy became the first Afghan female photographer to work for the AFP and later AP, two leading wire agencies, and eventually received a scholarship to continue studies in a photojournalism program in Canada. In 2010, Wahidy returned home to Afghanistan.
“I try to show the bigger image, not just show we have problems,” she says. “And we do have a lot of problems, but I do want to show normal daily life.”
Wahidy focuses on women. “This subject was important to me because I am a woman,” she says, recognizing an advantage that gives her. When she wants to document their lives, “it’s easier for a woman to get access,” she says.
Her photos of daily life range from men selling balloons on the streets to the secret lives of female prostitutes. And Wahidy was not the only one to recognize the need for this type of photography in Afghanistan. She is now part of the recently created Afghan Photography Network.
“Many Afghan photographers are not well-connected,” she explains. “We hope it will create a better connection and show Afghanistan by Afghan photographers.”
It is a young website, still in development, but the Afghan Photography Network is already bringing increased visibility to the work of Afghan photographers.
Of the eight women in her original photojournalism program, Wahidy is the only one working as a full-time photographer. Some got married, and others stopped working for reasons unknown to Wahidy. Wahidy, meanwhile, plans to continue for a very long time.
“When I shoot and I get a good photo,” she says, “that is a beautiful day.”
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3/4 into the song back-flips into crazy awesomeness.
HOW THE FUCK DOES SHE DO THAT WITH HER VOICE?
Oh my gosh this is the first full and good quality version of this I have found! Thank you for posting :)
Love this freakin song.
YES
Her voice was pretty much auto tuned during that part. It is (to the extent of human knowledge) not possible for anyone to do that unassisted.
Excuse you, her voice was not autotuned. But it was assisted.
For the fast bit the singer, Inva Mula, sang each note isolated for the recording, then it was strung together. But she DID sing those notes.
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Shamsia Hassani - An Afghan Street Artist
“If you have an exhibition, most uneducated people won’t even know about it. But if you have art like graffiti in the street, everyone can see that … If we can do graffiti all over the city, there will be nobody who doesn’t know about art.”
Afghan street artist Shamsia, 24, paints on the street walls in Kabul, Afghanistan. The young artist says she hopes her public art can have a positive effect in Afghanistan. A contemporary art painter, she took to graffiti easily despite the restrictions imposed by her gender.
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Neneh Cherry - “Woman”
You gotta be fortunate
You gotta be lucky now
I was just sitting here
Thinking good and bad
But I’m the kinda woman
That was built to last
They tried erasing me
But they couldn’t wipe out my past
To save my child
I’d rather go hungry
I got all of ethiopia
Inside of me
And my blood flows
Through every man
In this godless land
That delivered me
I’ve cried so many tears even the blind can see
Chorus:
This is a woman’s world.
This is my world.
This is a woman’s world
For this man’s girl.
There ain’t a woman in this world,
Not a woman or a little girl,
That can’t deliver love
In a man’s world.
I’ve born and I’ve bread.
I’ve cleaned and I’ve fed.
And for my healing wits
I’ve been called a witch.
I’ve crackled in the fire
And been called a liar.
I’ve died so many times
I’m only just coming to life.
Chorus:
This is a woman’s world.
This is my world.
This is a woman’s world
For this man’s girl.
There ain’t a woman in this world,
Not a woman or a little girl,
That can’t deliver love
In a man’s world.
My blood flows
Through every man and every child
In this godless land
That delivered me
I cried so many tears even the blind can see
Chorus:
This is a woman’s world.
This is my world.
This is a woman’s world
For this man’s girl.
There ain’t a woman in this world,
Not a woman or a little girl,
That can’t deliver love
In a man’s world.
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Obit of the Day (Historical): Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1931)
Simply put Ida B. Wells-Barnett was one of the greatest leaders of the early civil rights movement in the United States. The daughter of slaves, Mrs. Wells-Barnett was inculcated with an appreciation for education as well as political involvement. (Her father was active in campaigning for black candidates in Mississippi during that short period between the end of the Civil War and the end of Reconstruction when blacks in the South were encouraged to vote.)
She lost both of her parents and one sibling during a yellow fever epidemic when she was 16 years old. Now responsible for five younger sisters. she moved her family to Memphis, Tennessee to live with an aunt. She would work as a teacher and in the summer attend Fisk University in Nashville.
In 1884, when she was 24, Ms. Wells (she married in 1895) was traveling on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in the “ladies’ car.” When a white man could not find a seat on the train, a conductor came to Ms. Wells and demanded that she move to the train car designated for black passengers.
Here is how she recounted the event: “I refused…I proposed to stay…[The conductor] tried to drag me out of the seat but the moment he caught hold of my arm I fastened by teeth in the back of his hand. I had braced my feet against the seat in front and was holding to the back, and as he had already been badly bitten he didn’t try it again by himself. He went forward and got the baggageman and another man…and…they succeeded in dragging me out.” [Italics added for emphasis.]
Ms. Wells sued the railroad - and won in a Tennessee Circuit Court. Unfortunately the Tennessee Supreme Court found in favor of the railroad. (In 1897, the Supreme Court established the legal doctrine of “separate, but equal” in Plessy v. Ferguson which codified segregation across the U.S.)
This moment began Ms. Wells’ lifelong fight for the rights of African Americans and women. She purchased part-ownership in The Memphis Free Speech, an all-black publication which boldly covered civil rights issues in Tennessee. She ended up leaving the business and fleeing to Chicago in 1892 after the paper published her articles investigating the lynching of three black grocers. She received death threats.
In Chicago, she and Frederick Douglass co-wrote a pamphlet titled, The Reason Why the Colored American is Not at the World’s Columbian Exposition. (The 1893 Exposition was made famous in the book, Devil in the White City.) In response the leadership of the fair initiated a “Negro Day.” Ms. Wells and Mr. Douglass were unimpressed.
But her primary goal was to end lynching in the South. Peaking between the 1880s and the 1960s, Southern whites would take extra-legal actions against blacks who violated an unwritten “code” of behavior. Often in collusion with law enforcement lynch mobs would beat, burn, and hang black men, women, and children for unsubstantiated crimes, for speaking inappropriately, or any reason that would fire up the white population.
During her long fight for basic rights, Ms. Wells would meet with President William McKinley, tour England, and was a founding member of the NAACP and the National Association of Colored Women.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett, whose husband Ferdinand founded the first black newspaper in Chicago, The Conservator, was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 1988 and was honored with a U.S. postage stamp in 1990.
She passed away on March 25, 1931 at the age of 68.
Sources: www.idabewells.org, Webster University, Duke University, College of Staten Island, Encyclopedia of Chicago, The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History & Culture, National Women’s Hall of Fame, and Wikipedia
(Image of Mrs. Wells-Barnett is circa 1893 when she was in her early 30s. It is courtesy of www.googleartproject.com)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/a2fdcce49f687fb19ce8b9ffc5f80a6f/tumblr_mk7zafn9Xs1qcw9y0o1_500.jpg)
Obit of the Day (Historical): Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1931)
Simply put Ida B. Wells-Barnett was one of the greatest leaders of the early civil rights movement in the United States. The daughter of slaves, Mrs. Wells-Barnett was inculcated with an appreciation for education as well as political involvement. (Her father was active in campaigning for black candidates in Mississippi during that short period between the end of the Civil War and the end of Reconstruction when blacks in the South were encouraged to vote.)
She lost both of her parents and one sibling during a yellow fever epidemic when she was 16 years old. Now responsible for five younger sisters. she moved her family to Memphis, Tennessee to live with an aunt. She would work as a teacher and in the summer attend Fisk University in Nashville.
In 1884, when she was 24, Ms. Wells (she married in 1895) was traveling on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad in the “ladies’ car.” When a white man could not find a seat on the train, a conductor came to Ms. Wells and demanded that she move to the train car designated for black passengers.
Here is how she recounted the event: “I refused…I proposed to stay…[The conductor] tried to drag me out of the seat but the moment he caught hold of my arm I fastened by teeth in the back of his hand. I had braced my feet against the seat in front and was holding to the back, and as he had already been badly bitten he didn’t try it again by himself. He went forward and got the baggageman and another man…and…they succeeded in dragging me out.” [Italics added for emphasis.]
Ms. Wells sued the railroad - and won in a Tennessee Circuit Court. Unfortunately the Tennessee Supreme Court found in favor of the railroad. (In 1897, the Supreme Court established the legal doctrine of “separate, but equal” in Plessy v. Ferguson which codified segregation across the U.S.)
This moment began Ms. Wells’ lifelong fight for the rights of African Americans and women. She purchased part-ownership in The Memphis Free Speech, an all-black publication which boldly covered civil rights issues in Tennessee. She ended up leaving the business and fleeing to Chicago in 1892 after the paper published her articles investigating the lynching of three black grocers. She received death threats.
In Chicago, she and Frederick Douglass co-wrote a pamphlet titled, The Reason Why the Colored American is Not at the World’s Columbian Exposition. (The 1893 Exposition was made famous in the book, Devil in the White City.) In response the leadership of the fair initiated a “Negro Day.” Ms. Wells and Mr. Douglass were unimpressed.
But her primary goal was to end lynching in the South. Peaking between the 1880s and the 1960s, Southern whites would take extra-legal actions against blacks who violated an unwritten “code” of behavior. Often in collusion with law enforcement lynch mobs would beat, burn, and hang black men, women, and children for unsubstantiated crimes, for speaking inappropriately, or any reason that would fire up the white population.
During her long fight for basic rights, Ms. Wells would meet with President William McKinley, tour England, and was a founding member of the NAACP and the National Association of Colored Women.
Ida B. Wells-Barnett, whose husband Ferdinand founded the first black newspaper in Chicago, The Conservator, was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 1988 and was honored with a U.S. postage stamp in 1990.
She passed away on March 25, 1931 at the age of 68.
Sources: www.idabewells.org, Webster University, Duke University, College of Staten Island, Encyclopedia of Chicago, The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History & Culture, National Women’s Hall of Fame, and Wikipedia
(Image of Mrs. Wells-Barnett is circa 1893 when she was in her early 30s. It is courtesy of www.googleartproject.com)
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Hemendranath Mazumdar was one of the founders of the Indian Art Academy that pursued naturalism and was a departure from the till then popular Bengal School. A number of his paintings are dreamy in mood and have women in semi-transparent draperies with more than a suggestion of the erotic.
This painting (possibly ”Rose or Thorn”) suggests dress styles of the 1920s and 1930s including the translucency of the sari and of course the armband.
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