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Books for Black Women of All Ages to Read
Marita Golden Don’t Play in the Sun
Coffee will make you black- April sinclair
Brown Girl Dreaming, by Jacqueline Woodson
Flygirl, by Sherri L. Smith
Bayou Magic, by Jewell Parker Rhodes
(Middle school)
From the Notebooks of a Middle School Princess, by Meg Cabot
The Mighty Miss Malone, by Christopher Paul Curtis
Ninth Ward, by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Serafina’s Promise by Ann E. Burg
Adrienne Rich Adrienne Rich’s Poetry
Agnes Fallah Kamara-Umunna And Still Peace Did Not Come A Memoir of Reconciliation
Alaya Dawn Johnson The Summer Place
Alaya Dawn Johnson Love is the Drug
Alice Walker Now is the Time to Open Your Heart
Alice Walker In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women
Alice Walker The Color Purple
Alice Walker Meridian
Alice Walker Anything We Love Can be Saved
Alice Walker By the Light of My Father’s Smile
Angela Y Davis Blues Legacies & Black Feminism
Anne Moody Coming of age in Misssissi
Anne Schraff The One for Me
Antoinette Tuff Prepared for a Purpose
Antoinette Tuff Prepared For a Purpose
April Sinclair Coffee Will Make You Black
Ayaan Hirsi Ali Infidel
Babygirl Daniels 16 ½ on the Block A Babygirl Drama Vol. 2
Barbara Smith Home Girls
Bebe Moore Campbell Sweet Summer Growing Up With and Without My Dad
Bebe Moore Campbell Brothers and Sisters
Bell Hooks Bone Black Memories of Girlhood
Belle Antoinette Remains
Benilde Little Who Does She Think She Is?
Brandon Montclare Halloween Eve
Brian K. Vaughn Saga Volume One
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Americanah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie We Should All be Feminists
Chinelo Okparanta Under the Udala Trees
Chris Cleave Little Bee
Cleste O. Norfleet Download Drama
Coe Booth Kendra
Danielle L. McGuire At the Dark End of the Street
Dasha Kelly Almost Crimson
Dorothy Height Open Wide the Freedom Gates: A Memoir of Dorothy Height
Dorthy Spruill Redford Somerset Homecoming
Edwidge Danticat Claire of the Sea Light
Edwidge Danticat Krik? Krak!
Freddie Mae Baxter The Seventh Child: A Lucky Life
Gloria Naylor Mama Day
Grace F. Edwards No Time to Die: A Mali Anderson Mystery
Issa Rae The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl
Iyanla Vanzant Faith in the Valley
Jamaica Kincaid A Small Place
Janet Jackson True You
Janet Mock Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
Jaquelin Thomas Divine Match-up
Jeremy Zimmerman Kensei
Jesmyn Ward Salvage the Bones
Jewell Parker Rhodes Towers Falling
Jewell Parker Rhodes Voodoo Dreams A Novel of Marie Laveau
Justina Ireland Promise of Shadows
Karen Gibson Roc she & i Poems
Karen Lord The Best of All Possible Worlds
Karen Tanabe The Gilded Years
Karin Tanabe Gilded Years
Kathryn Talalay Composition in Black and White: The Life of Philippa Schuyler
Kia Dupree Silenced
Kimberla Lawson Roby Casting The First Stone
Kymberla Lawson Roby Casting the First Stone
Kyoko M. The Black Parade
Laura Resau The Queen of Water
Linda Joyce The Second Room on The Right
Lola Jaye Being Lara: A Novel
Lorene Cary The Price of a Child
Lynn Austin A Light to My Path
Marian Wright Edelman Lanterns A Memoir of Mentors
Ultimate guide to the most beautiful & elegant places to travel to:
Aoyama Flower Market Tea House - Tokyo, Japan
Ueno Toshogu Peony Garden - Tokyo, Japan
Café La Rose - Bangkok, Thailand
Flowers in Paros - Paros, Greece
Bardini Gardens - Florence, Italy
Villa Durazzo-Pallavicini Flower House - Genoa, Italy
Schloss Benrath - Düsseldorf, Germany
Esterházy Palace - Eisenstadt, Austria
Bloemenmarkt Flower Market - Amsterdam, Netherlands
Craigievar Castle - Craigievar, Scotland
Hever Castle Rose Garden - Hever, England
Arundel Castle and Gardens - Arundel, England
Castle Ashby Orangery - Northamptonshire, England
Peggy Porschen - London, England
Elan Café - London, England
Aubaine - London, England
Chateau du Gudanes - Château-Verdun, France
The Grand Trianon - Versailles, France
Plateau de Valensole - Valensole, France
Angelina - Paris, France
Château de la Reine Blanche - Paris, France
Café de Flore - Paris, France
Ladurée - Paris, France
Ladurée SoHo - New York, NY
Tiffany’s & The Blue Box Café - New York, NY
SERRA by Birreria - New York, NY
Sel Rrose - New York, NY
Glossier stores - various locations (the one in NYC is breathtaking)
The Berkeley Rose Garden - Berkeley, CA
Adelman Peony Gardens - Salem, OR
Puff & Petals - Atlanta, GA
Elizabeth Park Rose Garden - Hartford, CT
Ladies, please normalize being high maintenance. Keep your standards high, expect people to climb to reach them. Tell them that yes, you do plan on spending your money, your time, and your energy on yourself first. Unabashedly tell people “no” with no explanation. When they ask you “who do you think you are” tell them that you’re you. And that is enough.
I needed this drag. Let’s change guys and not look back
Y’all need to go to standwithbre.com and sign the petition. It takes 60 seconds.
When you sign the petition, it sends and emails to 20 officials who can charge the men responsible for her death.
Bre, a black woman, was shot dead by white police officers in her own home. They had the wrong house and shot her for being home while black. The officers have not been charged.
Stand for her like you did Ahaud. Black women are not incidental victims of police brutality, we matter. Fight for us. Sign the petition.
Me when I catch somebody disrespecting Black Women:
i mentioned this briefly in my recent vlog about how important it is to gain a better understanding of finances + i figured that it might be nice to share some resources for gaining financial literacy! hope this helps ✨
why financial literacy is important
resources on financial literacy from the national credit union administration
harvard’s take on financial literacy + additional links within that page
how credit cards work
tips for improving your credit score
how to check and improve your credit score
khan academy course on finance
cnn money 101
mymoney.gov from the financial literacy commission
gcf lessons (includes lessons on work / career / internet / microsoft / etc as well)
ally wallet wise
money as you grow
adult budgeting 101
tips for paying off student loans
common ways you waste money
strategies for paying off student loans
how insurance works
personal loans 101
guide to getting out of debt
how student loans work
I no longer have it in me to love madly and wildly
I want to love in peace, drop my naivety and stop constantly betraying myself to bargain affection.
“the art of ignoring people and things that bring you out of your element, so you can gravitate towards what feels more like you, more like home.”
— iambrillyant
May the 10 of Pentacles bless your account with more money than you can spend. 💵✨
I felt this soulfully, on an exponential level...
dream job?
i simply do not dream of labor
reblog and make a wish! this was removed from tumbrl due to “violating one or more of Tumblr’s Community Guidelines”, but since my wish came true the first time, I’m putting it back. :)
The police caught and arrested him. But despite the heinous and violent crimes he was credibly accused of, he was released without bail. He was free for three months AFTER police discovered that he was abusing 12 underage black girls.
Chrystul Kizer was raped and trafficked by this man for years.
She’s now facing life in prison for defending herself against her attacker.
Free Chrystul Kizer!!!
Pls spread help spread the news!
SIGN THE PETITION
Ultimate guide to the most beautiful & elegant places to travel to:
Aoyama Flower Market Tea House - Tokyo, Japan
Ueno Toshogu Peony Garden - Tokyo, Japan
Café La Rose - Bangkok, Thailand
Flowers in Paros - Paros, Greece
Bardini Gardens - Florence, Italy
Villa Durazzo-Pallavicini Flower House - Genoa, Italy
Schloss Benrath - Düsseldorf, Germany
Esterházy Palace - Eisenstadt, Austria
Bloemenmarkt Flower Market - Amsterdam, Netherlands
Craigievar Castle - Craigievar, Scotland
Hever Castle Rose Garden - Hever, England
Arundel Castle and Gardens - Arundel, England
Castle Ashby Orangery - Northamptonshire, England
Peggy Porschen - London, England
Elan Café - London, England
Aubaine - London, England
Chateau du Gudanes - Château-Verdun, France
The Grand Trianon - Versailles, France
Plateau de Valensole - Valensole, France
Angelina - Paris, France
Château de la Reine Blanche - Paris, France
Café de Flore - Paris, France
Ladurée - Paris, France
Ladurée SoHo - New York, NY
Tiffany’s & The Blue Box Café - New York, NY
SERRA by Birreria - New York, NY
Sel Rrose - New York, NY
Glossier stores - various locations (the one in NYC is breathtaking)
The Berkeley Rose Garden - Berkeley, CA
Adelman Peony Gardens - Salem, OR
Puff & Petals - Atlanta, GA
Elizabeth Park Rose Garden - Hartford, CT
Ultimate guide to the most beautiful & elegant places to travel to:
Aoyama Flower Market Tea House - Tokyo, Japan
Ueno Toshogu Peony Garden - Tokyo, Japan
Café La Rose - Bangkok, Thailand
Flowers in Paros - Paros, Greece
Bardini Gardens - Florence, Italy
Villa Durazzo-Pallavicini Flower House - Genoa, Italy
Schloss Benrath - Düsseldorf, Germany
Esterházy Palace - Eisenstadt, Austria
Bloemenmarkt Flower Market - Amsterdam, Netherlands
Craigievar Castle - Craigievar, Scotland
Hever Castle Rose Garden - Hever, England
Arundel Castle and Gardens - Arundel, England
Castle Ashby Orangery - Northamptonshire, England
Peggy Porschen - London, England
Elan Café - London, England
Aubaine - London, England
Chateau du Gudanes - Château-Verdun, France
The Grand Trianon - Versailles, France
Plateau de Valensole - Valensole, France
Angelina - Paris, France
Château de la Reine Blanche - Paris, France
Café de Flore - Paris, France
Ladurée - Paris, France
Ladurée SoHo - New York, NY
Tiffany’s & The Blue Box Café - New York, NY
SERRA by Birreria - New York, NY
Sel Rrose - New York, NY
Glossier stores - various locations (the one in NYC is breathtaking)
The Berkeley Rose Garden - Berkeley, CA
Adelman Peony Gardens - Salem, OR
Puff & Petals - Atlanta, GA
Elizabeth Park Rose Garden - Hartford, CT
This thread!
For more information, please visit www.whowillanswer.org.
Support a fellow black business owner 🤗
For those who don’t know, I launched my hair care company not too long ago. I’m currently selling a unisex hair & beard growth serum that’s all natural, high quality, coconut oil free, and makes your beard & scalp feel like it’s chewing minty fresh gum 🥰
I make everything by hand, my formula came from my own creativity and research (I didn’t buy from a private label like most new hair care companies are doing).
As someone who suffers from extreme shedding due to old chemical burns from the relaxers I used to get, breakage because my natural hair is super dry and super, gross dandruff that’s induced by stress - I can honestly say that my oil is pretty bomb and it can alleviate any mild scalp issues like dryness, flakes and itchiness. As for beards, this oil will give you an extra boost if your main problem is shedding.
This serum contains several different carrier and essential oils that promotes hair growth and will reduce breakage and excessive shedding. However, it’s important to take care of your hair and beard - you must wash and condition your hair or beard due to the fact that oils are not moisturizers, they just seal in moisture. Meaning, this is the last product you apply when you are doing your regimen.
You can use this product while wearing protective styles by applying the product to your scalp and edges but be sure to moisturize your hair as well.
This product is not intended to cure or to sell anyone false hopes and dreams. This is to give you an extra boost! If you can’t naturally grow a beard, this can’t help you or if you have any underlying health issues that’s affecting hair growth on your scalp, I think it’s important to speak to a doctor to help your figure out the most appropriate treatment for you.
This shouldn’t be used by pregnant women because some of the essential oils can probably induce labor but it can be used during your post partum period because that’s when extreme shedding occurs.
I’ve compared my product to the others on the market - what sets mine apart is just the quality and there’s no fillers in it (soybean oil, corn oil, mineral oil or petroleum).
It’s truly amazing. This thing have grown my edges many times after I ripped them out after detangling incorrectly 😂
Support ya girl please 💓
https://www.etsy.com/shop/thechubbyafrollc
Empowered Accessories & Cosmetics
Just a 25yo black woman wanting to empower to all women (and men... if you like 💞) through affordable Accessories and Cosmetics. 🙏🏾 Repost, someone on your TL might want to support.
💞20+ Lash Styles
💞Minimalistic Jewelry
Coming soon😩
💞Handbags
💞Lip Gloss/Lipstick Line
💞Apparel
Stay empowered!💅🏽
Empoweredac.com
If you are a black driver in USA, you should immediately install a dash cam facing the interior of your car.
homeless people are part of your community!!!!! get with it!!!!!!!!!!!!! they’re not outside interlopers they’re not invaders they’re not vermin. homeless people = people deprived of homes, they are Victims and you should be angry on their behalf because people are being deprived of shelter in Your Community
Some words to use when writing things:
winking
clenching
pulsing
fluttering
contracting
twitching
sucking
quivering
pulsating
throbbing
beating
thumping
thudding
pounding
humming
palpitate
vibrate
grinding
crushing
hammering
lashing
knocking
driving
thrusting
pushing
force
injecting
filling
dilate
stretching
lingering
expanding
bouncing
reaming
elongate
enlarge
unfolding
yielding
sternly
firmly
tightly
harshly
thoroughly
consistently
precision
accuracy
carefully
demanding
strictly
restriction
meticulously
scrupulously
rigorously
rim
edge
lip
circle
band
encircling
enclosing
surrounding
piercing
curl
lock
twist
coil
spiral
whorl
dip
wet
soak
madly
wildly
noisily
rowdily
rambunctiously
decadent
degenerate
immoral
indulgent
accept
take
invite
nook
indentation
niche
depression
indent
depress
delay
tossing
writhing
flailing
squirming
rolling
wriggling
wiggling
thrashing
struggling
grappling
striving
straining
Fake manhood
Want you to build them
Judges his fake manhood on sex
Belittles women
Overly sexual / no discipline / no morals
Demonize women about everything
Have no control over his emotions
Lack emotional intelligence
Rape , kill , hits women
Lack spiritual enlightenment
Make jokes about studs and gay men to try and boost the lack of manhood they have .
Justify and make excuses for the things that are detriment to the community while complaining . (Ex. Rape , murder of women and children )
Lack financial stability ....actually lack the ambition to learn about it / create it / get it .
Say the most wild shit on social media for attention .
Don’t take care of his responsiblities (finacnces , kids , wife/ girl , himself .
Hold on to false ideas of manhood that were taught to him by other boys / older boys who saw no real manhood from a man .
Fake womanhood
Lack emotional intelligence
Belittle their mate
Combative
Lack spiritual growth
Uses sex liberation as a way to be overly promiscuous without any form of morals and understanding of sexual engeries
Try to use jealous to get a form of reaction from their mate , (immature ) .
No sense of sisterhood , always loosing girl friends
Dressing how they want without acknowledging how it affects the oversexualized boys in the community which helps perpetuate a cycle
Being force to be overly strong and won’t let it go
Lack nurturing
Judges men on the fake ideas of manhood that she’s been taught on what’s a “real man “ .