IF I DIE IN POLICE CUSTODY...

Robert Hunt, 19, was visiting his grandmother in Urbana, Illinois when he made the fateful decision to visit relatives and friends in Cairo. According to the Civil Rights Commission, Hunt was riding in an automobile with five others on the night of July 15, 1967, when Cairo police stopped the vehicle, allegedly for having a defective taillight. Many Blacks told the Commission of being pulled over by Cairo police officers for dubious reasons and then being thrashed with a verbal, and sometimes physical, abuse. Hunt responded to the policeman’s verbal barrage with a spoken onslaught of his own, the Commission found. He was charged with disorderly conduct and taken to jail. Police reported they locked Hunt into a cell at 12:30 a.m., and found him “approximately 30 to 40 minutes later…hanged by his t-shirt.” The police called for a doctor. The physician pronounced Hunt dead and then immediately contacted the coroner for Alexander County, Leo Siers, was satisfied with the police account. After Hunt’s aunt identified his body, Siers quickly and quietly ruled the death a suicide that same morning, sent the body to an undertaker for embalming, and sent his body home to his grandmother in Urbana.
In 1967, walls that did not reach the ceiling divided cells in the police station. Wire mesh filled the gap between the ceiling and the top of the walls. According to police, "Hunt tied his t-shirt to this wire"  via @Black Culture
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IF I DIE IN POLICE CUSTODY..

 

 In 1967, three days of riots and protests occurred in Cairo, Illinois. The incident began with a so-called jail house suicide of Pvt. Robert Hunt  (post above). He was a young Black soldier on leave in his hometown of Cairo. The alleged suicide fired up the town's African-American community. The police said Hunt had hanged himself with his T-shirt, but Cairo's Black residents had the evidence to challenge that story. The suspicious death touched off three days of riots and protests, followed by a seven-year renewal of Civil Rights activities in the city, one of the latest, and longest-sustained such struggles in the nation at that time. via @Black Culture
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KINGS NOT NIGGAS.

BECOME YOUR PRAYER.

ANI'T GOT NO...

Ain't Got No/i Got Life

I ain't got no home, ain't got no shoes
Ain't got no money, ain't got no class
Ain't got no skirts, ain't got no sweater
Ain't got no perfume, ain't got no beer
Ain't got no man

Ain't got no mother, ain't got no culture
Ain't got no friends, ain't got no schooling
Ain't got no love, ain't got no name
Ain't got no ticket, ain't got no token
Ain't got no God

Then what have I got
Why am I alive anyway?
Yeah, what have I got
Nobody can take away

Got my hair, got my head
Got my brains, got my ears
Got my eyes, got my nose
Got my mouth, I got my smile

I got my tongue, got my chin
Got my neck, got my boobs
Got my heart, got my soul
Got my back, I got my sex

I got my arms, got my hands
Got my fingers, got my legs
Got my feet, got my toes
Got my liver, got my blood

I've got life
I've got my freedom
I've got life

I've got life
And I'm gonna keep it
I've got life
And nobody's gonna take it away- Nina Simone #SoulfulBeauty #Activist #SongLyricsOnPoint
  

BE PROUD OF YOUR ARCHITECTURE...

"Be the bones beneath your skin. Absorb Sunlight and strengthen yourself with it. Embrace the beautiful, fragile things and protect them. Resist to the point of breaking- gradually let yourself heal when you do. Hold yourself-these are your bones. Be proud of your architecture. #ShowThemWhoYourAreInAllYourGlory

THE FLYEST...

Ralph Lauren. Spring 05 #TheFlyest

RESET YOUR EYES...

Each morning, say a word that doesn’t defeat the purpose of being you. Speak your language of love. Speak positively into your life. Rest your eyes on your reflection take a good look at yourself. honestly in the mirror. Don’t wait for anyone  to call you beautiful. you are flowers that have survived winter. You are light even if they see darkness.  You are breathing. you are alive.
 -Karen Owusu

"I'm going to make everything around me beautiful. That will be my life "

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From me to me. #LadiesRomanceYourself

"Not everyone is able to decorate your soul. I'm learning that you must be willing to water your flowers alone. To wrap yourself with love even if you wither, you'll eventually stand tall, from your roots and bloom".

A MOMENT OF SILENCE ?

"'What, to the American slave, is your 4th Of July? I answer; a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your national greatness, swelling vanity; your sound of rejoicing are empty and heartless; your denunciation of tyrants brass fronted impudence; your shout of liberty and equality, hollow mockery; your prayers and hymns, your sermons and thanks-givings, with all your religious parade and solemnity, are to him, mere bombast, fraud, deception, impiety, and hypocrisy -- a thin veil to cover up crimes which would disgrace a nation of savages. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour."- Frederick Douglas.

 

The picture above was done by a amazing and talented artist ShiKeith called "a moment of silence". Done as a moment of silence in tribute to those lost in Charleston, and across America at the hands of racism that continues today and everyday. 

 

 

MELANIN...

 

"I feel in love with you, the way you smile, with how you smell. I can't think of one thing about you that I'm not in love with. To me you are perfect . Your "flaws" aren't flaws because I adore them all. I am in love with you with every single piece of you "  #Melanin

 

MORE THAN ENOUGH...

“They told me
I wasn’t enough.
I wasn’t pretty enough,
thin enough, smart enough,
sexy enough, talented enough. And they were right.
I am not enough. I am capable, I am surviving,
I am bravery, I am virtue, I am silence.
I am human, I am learning, I am expanding, I am 
more,
more,
more.”~ UnKnown   #RiskBeingSeenInAllYourGlory