Another week, more protests, and most importantly, more hope rising. Here are this week’s finds:
ICYMI – I shared my experience as a black woman in Denmark. Have a read!
ONE | 90+ Black Bloggers, Influencers and Tastemakers. I’m loving the current celebration of blackness as a form of resistance against the systemic racism that people are protesting about. I am already following quite a few of them but for those of you that didn’t know…now you know! You’re welcome!
TWO | Wale – Sue Me. Every time I watch this video, I can’t NOT cry. The director, Kerby Jean-Raymond, depicts a world where white people live the current black experience. Look out for the billboards, the religious symbols, it’s so cleverly done. The video actually came out before the death of George Floyd but couldn’t be more apt for this moment. A MUST WATCH!
THREE | Black people need active allies against racism, not just “love” texts
FOUR | Funmi Fetto on the nuances of racism in the UK. It’s sad how much I can relate to her experience.
FIVE | Songs for the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests
SIX | What too few textbooks tell about the Atlantic slave trade
SEVEN | Kirk Franklin at the Breakfast Club. I love this man so much. His honesty about the church and Christianity is so refreshing and needed!
EIGHT | Maybe it’s time for black athletes to go back to HBCUs
BONUS | This song has 90s’ R’n’B vibes all over it! Like dayum!!! Ebz the Artist, I have my eye on you!
BONUS BONUS | Another one just because I felt like it and I can. Ha! Yvonne Orji teaching us Nigerian slang. Always hilarious. Love her.
