Emory Douglas joined the BPP in 1967 and served as Minister of Culture, designing artwork that became potent symbols of the movement. Douglas originally helped with the layout of the Black Panthers’ newspaper, and realised that art could enhance their campaigns and reach the masses.
Little crop of the last commission piece I did for my most recent and amazing hosts! Also, I’ve added a few more prints in my shop that I’ve been asked about the most as of lately (including this guy!) so feel free to check them out 🍄 www.kitmizeresart.storenvy.com
I’m still being created.
still processing.
a work in progress.
an unfinished poem.
the first day of God’s creation.
erased & started over, over & over.
a collage of beginnings, endings, halfways, half fulls, straight & narrows, twists & turns, everything & nothing.
“Although it is not entirely to her liking, grief-stricken Satha, a dark-skinned woman from a poor Theseni clan weds young Loic, the wealthy Doreni son of the king’s First Captain. Loic, graced with ability to see into the hearts and minds of others, begins to help Satha overcome her sorrows. Despite coming from different tribes, they begin to forge a life together. But when Satha’s own compassion is used against her and a treacherous enemy contrives to dishonor her in Loic’s absence, Loic’s love turns to anger and disgust.
Embittered, Loic must still avenge his honor and Satha’s and he sets out on a journey that brings despair as well as spiritual discovery. Battling him are the Arkhai, the spirits of the land who know his quest will lead him toward the God whom they have usurped. After his departure, Satha is kidnapped, sold into slavery and learns, first hand, how cruel the pioneering Angleni tribe can be. Both face great hardship, danger and anguish apart, but with the Creator’s aid there remains hope they will be reunited and heal the love the world has torn asunder.
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“I am a novelist, a writer of fiction, devotionals, poetry, reviews, and essays and my works have appeared in many publishing venues, in print and online. I live in New York with my husband, two sons, cat Freddie and my dog, Hemotep.
I’ve written for as long as I can remember. My Jamaican family was always telling stories and mother had memorized the opening chapters from several books, such as Ivanhoe, A Tale of Two Cities, etc. I was especially good at adapting. Somehow I felt the stories I had inherited from the European tradition (stuff we learned in school or watched on TV) always needed to be tweaked to include (subtly) matters that were important to a little Jamaican girl growing up in a Jewish-neighborhood in Brooklyn.
I remember the day I decided I was a writer. It was the day a classmate grasped a poem I had written from my desk and brought it to the teacher who proclaimed the poem “great.” I was hooked.” -
Carole McDonnell
Women have long contributed to and transformed scientific knowledge, but they aren’t always widely recognized for their hard, brilliant work.
Now that the International Day of Women and Girls in Science (#WomenInScience) is upon us, take a moment to meet some young women just starting out in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), and women who, through their research and discoveries, changed the course of history.
These seven talented girls and women will inspire you to get serious about STEM.
The Dora Milaje are the personal bodyguards of the Black Panther, recruited from every tribe of Wakanda. In addition with their protective function, they are also a pool of superior Wakandan women, suiting for the role of Queen of Wakanda. They are extensively trained and highly skilled martial artists and with various weapons.
Gustave Van de Woestyne (Belgian, 1881-1947), Nature morte aux poires et vase bleu [Still Life with Pears and Blue Vase], 1937. Oil on hardboard, 60.2 x 70.2 cm.
This plant is called llareta, and it’s a member of the Apiaceae family, which makes it a cousin to parsley, carrots and fennel. But being a desert plant, high up in Chile’s extraordinarily dry Atacama, it grows very, very slowly; a little over a centimeter a year. It may look like a glob of goo, but it’s not at all gooey. It’s solid to the touch; so solid that a man can lie on top of it and not sink in, not even a little. (Source)
Ok y’all this is a SAVE THE DATE for the most anticipated movie of 2018, Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther! Get your dashiki’s and kufi’s ready and join us for this groundbreaking Afrofuturist masterpiece and join us afterward to party!
I’ll let you know as soon as tickets are available so RSVP now to get my email alert!
*Translated from the original Tongva language, November 1842 - “..My great grandparents remembered to us the story of our friends from the distant side of night. They recalled the stories from their great-grandparents as well and spoke them on to us. No one knows the first meeting of people the Tall Ones but they long ago they helped us with wisdom and saved the tribes of all people from starvation. They were wise and kind but the people envious of their greatness forgot to be grateful. At last the Tall Ones came to say a goodbye, never to return but they beckoned us to find them someday. A white man carrying a box on skinny legs remembered it for the world but the white men will forget and not be grateful. They always forget their words.”
Like the plant from which they get their name, Venus flytrap anemones trap unwitting prey. The anemone’s tentacles contain stinging cells that inject venom and can close to keep prey from escaping.
This beautiful anemone was spotted in the deep waters of National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa by researchers aboard the NOAA Ship Okeanos Explorer. The anemone itself is perched on top of a dead Iridogorgia coral, perhaps to better access the current and passing prey.
(Photo: NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, 2017 American Samoa)
