BLACK AND BRITISH: A FORGOTTEN HISTORY

Have you seen the New Yorker article recently posted entitled, "Broken, Defaced, Unseen: The Hidden Black Females of Western Art" by Robin Coste Lewis?

BROKEN, DEFACED, UNSEEN: THE HIDDEN BLACK FEMALE FIGURES OF WESTERN ART

[“The Voyage of the Sable Venus from Angola to the West Indies,” a wood engraving by W. Grainger after T. Stothard.]

I had not seen or read this yet, and I’m so grateful you’ve brought it to my attention.

The entire article is an incredibly moving meditation on the life-transforming powers of art and research.

I AM WITH YOU

I usually reserve all my feels for my personal social channels.

I don’t want to bring you down with the emotions of hurt, angry, and pain that I carry every time another brother or sister is killed by the police.

But I hurt… I can’t help but let the tears that well up in my eyes every time I look at my sons, fall.

I am with you.

I know the frustration of feeling hopeless, powerless, and unheard.

I am with you.

I was here before Trayvon Martin, Micheal Brown, Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice and the 500+ others…

I am with you.

Know that I sympathize and empathize. I’m afraid for my son’s future. I stand with you.

I am with you.

I couldn’t stand by and let another moment go by. While others are silent, I need you to know that I’m with you.

#BlackLivesMatter

~Tamara Founding Editor of Natural Hair Rules

Such a beautiful song.

(cartoon by Nick Anderson)

How Senegal stretched its health care system to stop Covid-19

Senegal’s quarantine policy sought to slow transmission, and local health care workers battled the pandemic from the ground up.

“We have what we call a ‘chain of solidarity’: The nation joined hands together,” Moussa Seydi, chief of infectious disease service at Dakar’s University of Fann Hospital Center, said. “Religious leaders came to join the political decision-makers, and also, the community involved themselves in giving this response to Covid-19.”

“People were saying: ‘You all will die with this Covid. Africa will disappear with this Covid,’” Seydi said. “Africans got so scared that they didn’t have any other choice but to prepare themselves. More than usual! And this preparation contributed to the fight against this disease.”

THICK DADDY M’BAKU