Chimene Jackson: Headwrap & Camera
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lovelyandbrown: scandal on summer break.
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lovelyandbrown: paradise.
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Often hurt by what grows me; often left feeling failed by that which was seasonal; often isolated to make room for the new; often silenced to hear Your voice. Too often bypassing the simple profound in search for the gaudy mountain top. And daily I am in awe of the humble corridors where I find You.
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thesmithian: “Words of Emancipation didn’t arrive until the middle of June so they called it Juneteenth. So that was it, the night of Juneteenth celebration, his mind went on. The celebration of a gaudy illusion.” ― Ralph Ellison
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throughkaleidscopeeyes: FAVORIITE PHOTO of Phylicia Rashad
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womenwhokickass: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Why she kicks ass “How [stories] are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told — are really dependent on power.” She is a Igbo Nigerian writer who has been called “the most prominent” of a “procession of critically acclaimed young anglophone authors [that] is succeeding in attracting a new generation of readers to African literature. She is the author of three novels, Purple Hibiscus(2003), Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), and Americanah(2013), of a short story collection, The Thing around Your Neck (2009). She has received numerous awards and distinctions, including the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (2007) and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2008). She studied medicine and pharmacy at the University of Nigeria for a year and a half while also edited The Compass, a magazine run by the university’s Catholic medical students. At 19, she left Nigeria and moved to the United States for college. After studying communications and political science at Drexel University in Philadelphia, she transferred to Eastern Connecticut State University to live closer to her sister, who had a medical practice in Coventry. She received a bachelor’s degree from Eastern, where she graduated summa cum laude in 2001. In 2003, she completed a master’s degree in creative writing at Johns Hopkins University. In 2008, she received a Master of Arts in African studies from Yale University. She was a Hodder fellow at Princeton University during the 2005-2006 academic year. In 2008 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. She has also been awarded a 2011-2012 fellowship by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University. She also is known for her TED speech about the danger of a single story and her eloquent, thought provoking delivery manages to seamlessly bridge the gap between two generations. She was one of the speakers at TedxEuston, showing that her words are as sharp as her writing skills while discussing feminism, particularly in the context of Africa and Africans. Using anecdotes she described how men and women experience the world different and why that should change, while also addressing and dismissing the notion that feminism is unAfrican.
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Coming very soon everyone: Vagabroad #Journals: Sankofa collection! 2weeks until they’re on my #etsy ! Je t’aime. #journal #writer #artist #journaling #papercrafts #paper #collageart #mixed media #handmade
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I find myself in tasting places My coterie replaced with Connoseurs’ faces I find these are often learning places Experience laces With youth’s capricious faces I find myself inquiring of their spaces: Would expertise be graced with New minds going places.