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blackfolksmakingcomics: Princess Zahara: A fearless princess,...

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:38:08 -0400

Princess Zahara:

A fearless princess, destined to inherit rule of the Five Kingdoms.

A gifted warrior and a tech savvy teen, to her, formalities have always been in the way of getting things done. Still she has a bit more trouble relating to common people than she’d like to admit, but she hopes to soon be able to see her nation first hand instead of from behind the palace walls.

She’s equipped with an ancient familial magic staff and a multipurpose tool strapped to her wrist that has gotten her in and out of a lot of trouble.

Responsible and brave, she hopes to one day be a great queen, and command the same presence as her mother..

Today, I realized the need to make Spider Stories a reality is stronger, especially after this one Kickstarter story about a stereotypical comic started popping up. I’d rather see positive storytelling rather than more tales of people ignorant of a culture willing to mock it for profit.

Make the Spider Stories animated film a reality. The brothers Agbaje need your support in these last two weeks.

Street Justice: Human Statue Comes Alive with Fists of Fury After Annoying Asshole Refuses to Leave Him Alone(via @Gawker)

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 17:01:05 -0400

Street Justice: Human Statue Comes Alive with Fists of Fury After Annoying Asshole Refuses to Leave Him Alone(via @Gawker):

A disrespectful douche causing trouble on Cavill Avenue in Surfers Paradise learns two invaluable lessons for the price of one: Don’t be a dick; and living statues are not actual statues. [H/T:

rraaaarrl: Luke Cage: Giving No Fucks

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 20:58:52 -0500

rraaaarrl:

Luke Cage: Giving No Fucks

blackfolksmakingcomics: afuasketch: Remix of a classic...

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 22:43:29 -0500

blackfolksmakingcomics:

afuasketch:

Remix of a classic pose.

*fans self* Josephine Baker’s one of those iconic figures who was a brilliant and brave as she was beautiful.

If you don’t know her, look her up.

thefontnazi: japesofwrath: howiviewafrica: A Urine Powered...

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:32:01 -0500

thefontnazi:

japesofwrath:

howiviewafrica:

A Urine Powered Generator. An amazing accomplishment by four brilliant girls. The girls are are Duro-Aina Adebola (14), Akindele Abiola (14), Faleke Oluwatoyin (14) and Bello Eniola (15).

1 Liter of urine gives you 6 hours of electricity.

The system works like this:

Urine is put into an electrolytic cell, which separates out the hydrogen.

The hydrogen goes into a water filter for purification, which then gets pushed into the gas cylinder.

The gas cylinder pushes hydrogen into a cylinder of liquid borax, which is used to remove the moisture from the hydrogen gas.

This purified hydrogen gas is pushed into the generator.

This is amazing. Give them a billion dollars right now. They may have just saved the planet.

folks are doing a PISS poor job of reblogging this.

blackfolksmakingcomics: chetoseeconceptart: AMC’s The Walking...

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 17:34:43 -0500

blackfolksmakingcomics:

chetoseeconceptart:

AMC’s The Walking Dead Michonne Fan Art

Have mercy, that is beautiful!

blackfolksmakingcomics: I love this.

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 17:25:38 -0500

blackfolksmakingcomics:

I love this.

fatnomimalone: beedevouring: (I usually find these things...

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 11:47:21 -0500

fatnomimalone:

beedevouring:

(I usually find these things annoying, but…)

TRUTH. STFU, no seriously, SHUT. THE. FUCK. UP. about how welfare recipients need to submit to drug tests, shouldn’t buy this, shouldn’t have that, should be properly humble, should do that, any of the typical classist or racist or whining fucking ranty bullshit about welfare and LOOK. LEARN. Corporate personhood and welfare BLEEDS us more than the guy next door who may or may not be cheating the system. Stop letting them turn us against our fellow real, live, breathing individuals who need a hand and DEMAND the government end corporate personhood. Capitalism/free market, MY LEFT TIT.

^

blackfolksmakingcomics: Via the ormessociety: Hip-Hop And...

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 21:10:15 -0500

blackfolksmakingcomics:

Via the ormessociety:

Hip-Hop And Comics: Cultures Combining (New York Comic Con, October 13th, 2012)

Privacy: The Senate Is About to Let More Than 22 Agencies Spy on Your Email and Documents Without a Warrant(via @Gizmodo)

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:33:42 -0500

Privacy: The Senate Is About to Let More Than 22 Agencies Spy on Your Email and Documents Without a Warrant(via @Gizmodo):

What began as a bill designed to protect the privacy of your digital life has been mangled at the behest of law enforcement agencies. CNET reports that if the revised Senate bill isn’t stopped before it goes to vote next week, 22 federal agencies will have warrantless access to troves of your…

End Of An Era: Hostess Is Going Out of Business, Will Lay Off Thousands(via @Gawker)

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 16:29:43 -0500

End Of An Era: Hostess Is Going Out of Business, Will Lay Off Thousands(via @Gawker):

Right now a fight is breaking out in a grocery store over the last box.

blackfolksmakingcomics: Let us never, EVER forget that this...

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 19:29:06 -0500

blackfolksmakingcomics:

Let us never, EVER forget that this whole Marvel movie industry we all have grown to love got started largely because of 1998’s Blade.

I really hope people give this great movie much love for its 15th anniversary next year. Pity it’s not in that Warner Bros. 90th anniversary collection coming out next year (and before you go “Blade’s from New Line, not Warner Bros,” keep in mind that several MGM films including Mrs. Miniver, Singin’ in the Rain, Gone With The Wind, How the West Was Won, The Wizard of Oz, Ben-Hur, North by Northwest, Anchors Aweigh, Gigi, and Doctor Zhivago, the RKO pic Citizen Kane, the Orion pic Amadeus, and other New Line pictures like The Shawshank Redemption and The Lord of the Rings trilogy can be in the 100-film set, why not Blade or even the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or Austin Powers movies?).

Oh well.

Pat Robertson: Pat Robertson Dumbfounded That Women Watch Porn(via @Gawker)

Fri, 09 Nov 2012 10:05:11 -0500

Pat Robertson: Pat Robertson Dumbfounded That Women Watch Porn(via @Gawker):

Pat Robertson, a man who has a club named after him for how many times he masturbated in one day, is stunned by the prospect of women masturbating. Robertson, who is renowned for suggesting that people might not want to adopt children and that men should move to Saudi Arabia to beat their wives,…

Honky Bait: Welcome to the Coming Race War(via @Gawker)

Tue, 06 Nov 2012 23:59:17 -0500

Honky Bait: Welcome to the Coming Race War(via @Gawker):

The results aren’t in yet, but it’s becoming increasingly clear from the exit poll data and the glum mood on Fox News that Barack Obama is probably going to win re-election tonight.

blackfolksmakingcomics: pepethekingpelipper: wardellb: Dwayne...

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 21:11:26 -0400

blackfolksmakingcomics:

pepethekingpelipper:

wardellb:

Dwayne McDuffie (Writer)

love him so much <3 :/

All hail the Maestro!

Jamel Mims on facing two years in prison for protesting Stop...

Wed, 24 Oct 2012 04:18:47 -0400

Jamel Mims on facing two years in prison for protesting Stop & Frisk
October 23, 2012

New York City teacher Jamel Mims faces up to two years in prison for nonviolently protesting the most controversial racial profiling policy in America today. Last year, he was one of the key members of a civil disobedience campaign to stop Stop-and-Frisk that boasted the iconic academic Cornel West as one of its leading advocates. Today, he stands on trial along with 12 other campaigners.

As discussed in last week’s State of the Left, the NYPD policy involves 1,800 instances of stopping and frisking citizens every day; in the last decade, 87% of people who are stopped are black or Latino; and about 9 of 10 are innocent of any wrongdoing. There is not even a hint of exaggeration in saying that certain sections of New York City are turned into police states for minority youth.

Enter Jamel Mims:

On Tuesday October 23, I will be on trial along with Carl Dix, who, with Cornel West, initiated the 2011 campaign of nonviolent protest to stop Stop-and-Frisk. We are facing up to two years in jail for non-violent protest at the NYPD 103rd precinct in Jamaica, Queens last year.

The stakes are undoubtedly high: this is the second stop-and-frisk protest mass trial resulting from the culminating action of the civil disobedience campaign that sparked citywide resistance to the policy. The Queens District Attorney added a serious misdemeanor charge on us last month, and re-wrote our charges last week so that we’re charged with ‘acting in concert’ rather than as individuals.

The action last November was the third such protest at New York City precincts with the most stop-and-frisks, this one taking place in the borough of Queens. We held a community rally and march through Jamaica, Queens, which ended at the 103rd Precinct. As our march arrived at the precinct, it was completely barricaded on all sides – on lock-down in anticipation of the protest. An officer slides open one of the metal grates and motions us inward so that we may protest at the precinct doors. After minutes of chanting and singing outside of the precinct steps, 20 of us were arrested, quite quickly, but held for hours late into the next day. For less than ten minutes of protesting stop-and-frisk outside of the doors 103rd precinct, which houses the NYPD officers who put fifty shots into Sean Bell, 12 co-defendants and I now find ourselves facing two years of jail time.

If anyone think this is just an empty threat, and they won’t convict or send us to jail, let me reiterate—the DA has twice bumped up the charges in the last month, and has made it very clear that the prosecutorial apparatus intends to place us behind bars. A year ago, those who had no first-hand experience of the humiliation of being illegally searched barely knew the practice occurred. Those who got stopped and frisked thought there was nothing one could do about it. Now, the stop-and-frisk policy and the horrors it inflicts are going viral in mainstream society. Copwatch and videos of NYPD stops garner thousands of views, and nearly every day there are articles or opinion pieces about stop-and-frisk. Potential mayoral candidates have even had to confront this, as politicians line up to claim their opposition to the policy, or express their desire to reform or modify it in the ongoing pursuit of public opinion.

In this watershed moment, when stop-and-frisk is opening a window into the daily plight of thousands, the very people who put their bodies on the line to put this issue into the spotlight and openly call out for its abolition are vigorously prosecuted and threatened with incarceration. I refuse to accept this. It’s unthinkable that the Queens District Attorney, who couldn’t make a case against the cops who murdered Sean Bell, is now throwing the book at nonviolent civil disobedience protesters. In this light, the intended effect of this prosecution is insidiously transparent: to send a chilling effect through the movement against mass incarceration, and dampen the spirit of resistance it has ignited. To put it quite simply: don’t speak up, and certainly don’t fight back.

Well, I’m speaking up. And not just as someone who is passionate about the issue. I speak as a target of police abuse, as a Fulbright Scholar whose scholarship was almost denied after being assaulted by Boston police while trying to leave a party. I speak to you as an artist and teacher whose work in New York City public schools has me witness the humiliation and degradation of the youth by the NYPD on a daily basis. I speak to you as a committed opponent of the New Jim Crow, a system of mass incarceration that has 2.4 million mostly black and Latino men warehoused in prisons across the nation, with stop-and-frisk as a major pipeline into that system.

Most of all, I speak to you as someone who has cast their lot with those at the bottom of society: with those thousands of youth who are brutalized, targeted, harassed, and shuffled off behind bars — and is now facing years in prison for standing with them.

We fully intend to stop this railroading by bringing the political battle into the courtroom and putting Stop and Frisk on trial. If we are allowed to be convicted and jailed without a massive fight, then the battle against stop-and-frisk and the spirit of resistance it has engendered will be seriously dampened. On the other hand, if people stand with us in this legal battle–if we meet and defeat their attempts to silence and punish us–then the movement will gain further initiative and pull many more people into the struggle against mass incarceration.

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The United States police state imprisons all dissidents, from police brutality activists to government whistleblowers.

If you have locs/dreads/dreadlocks and occasionally post pics of yourself, can you like or reblog this please.

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 19:58:51 -0400

livelaughlovelocs:

livelaughlovelocs:

I am trying to create a tumblr listing/directory of loc wearers on one of my pages.

* If you are not on tumblr, you can post your blog link in the comments and reactions section.

Updating directory next weekend.

http://livelaughlovelocs.tumblr.com/locdirectory

BFMC: Perceptions of Prejudice

Fri, 14 Sep 2012 07:46:55 -0400

BFMC: Perceptions of Prejudice:

blackfolksmakingcomics:

I got asked a question a week or so ago about from someone I kind of consider a friend. He’s a decent person, but sometimes, his ignorant, borderline racist nature comes out on full blast, like this question:

If Vixen happened to be a white South African, would you have nearly as much praise…

Chris Matthews RIPS Into Reince Priebus, ‘GOP Is Playing...

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 00:14:10 -0400

Chris Matthews RIPS Into Reince Priebus, ‘GOP Is Playing Race Card’; ‘It’s Your Garbage!’ (by NewsPoliticsLeaks)

Romney’s alternate private equity...

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 09:45:32 -0400

Romney’s alternate private equity Obama-verse
http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2012/08/23/romneys-alternate-private-equity-universe/

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