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Ugh, I do love Obama, I really do. Even as so much fucking bullshit goes on.

(via bluebirddayss)

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explore-blog:

Sister Rosetta Tharpe – gospel music’s first superstar, the godmother of rock and roll, “the original soul sister,” reconstructionist – waiting for The Blues Train in Chorlton, 1963.

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djripley:

The Harlem Playgirls was an African American swing band active in the Midwest and throughout the United States from the mid-1930s to the early 1940s.
h/t Vnylist

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fuckyeahbeatniks:

Amiri Baraka at his home, 1959.

Otis Redding at the Monterey Pop Festival 1967

(via people-are-strange)

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t-t-w:

Rest in peace Trayvon Martin <3

This picture makes me tear up.

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This is unbelievable, and yet, believable. After all the birth control debate bullshit, I’m not sure my brain will be capable of forming coherent thoughts anymore. I don’t even believe it’s the year 2012.
How is it that a shrinking group of angry white “Christian” men, in a variety of income brackets, are still able to control and intimidate this country? When you add up the number of women (who are not Michele Bachmann or Sarah Palin), people of color of every country and ethnic group (and other immigrants who are not technically people of color), LGBT people, and sane, reasonable men, surely we can vastly outnumber them and squash this ridiculous culture of fear, hatred, and intimidation.
If the Democrats will not represent that cause, we need a new unified movement. I’m all for freedom of speech, but hate speech and hate acts are not covered under that, and should be persecuted as such. And that also goes toward having a country where men like Rush Limbaugh and Rick Santorum are given their rightful platform for “free speech” - their local bus station.
stfuconservatives:

Found on Facebook with this caption: “The New Jim Crow has these folks thinking they can call you a nigger to your face and dare you to say something about it.”

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“You got to be a spirit. You can’t be no ghost.”
Amiri Baraka in Bulworth - my first exposure to him, and actually one of the reasons I discovered Naropa. His character in that movie is one of the most haunting I’ve ever seen.