May222012
8PM

SCHOMBURG CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN BLACK CULTURE: Remembering Langston Hughes

schomburgcenter:

The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes

I’ve known rivers:
I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the
flow of human blood in human veins.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near the Congo…

8PM
high waist double dart pant

high waist double dart pant
7PM
If we must die, O let us nobly die,So that our precious blood may not be shedIn vain; then even the monsters we defyShall be constrained to honor us though dead!O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe!Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow!What though before us lies the open grave?Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack,Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!      

If we must die, O let us nobly die,
So that our precious blood may not be shed
In vain; then even the monsters we defy
Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!
O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe!
Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,
And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow!
What though before us lies the open grave?
Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!      

claude mckay 

May142012

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6PM

anovelista:

obamafamily:

US First Lady Michelle Obama greets children of Executive Office employees in the East Room on April 26, 2012 in Washington, DC, during the White House’s annual Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day.

My favorite First Lady, @MichelleObama waving her hands in the air… I mean greeting children of Executive Office employees during the WH’s Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day. 
May22012
5PM

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5PM
“What we need are mental and spiritual giants who are aflame with a purpose… We’re a race ready for crusade, for we’ve recognized that we’re a race on this continent that can work out its own salvation” Nannie Helen Burroughs

“What we need are mental and spiritual giants who are aflame with a purpose… We’re a race ready for crusade, for we’ve recognized that we’re a race on this continent that can work out its own salvation”

Nannie Helen Burroughs
April292012

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