make sure everyone can hear you.

If you are going to think black, think positive about it. Don't think down on it, or think it is something in your way. And this way, when you really do want to stretch out, and express how beautiful black is, everybody will hear you.

Leontyne Price

Change Up

change-up, 

let's go for ourselves

both cheeks are broken now.

change-up,

move past the corner bar,

let yr/split lift u above that quick high.

change-up,

that toothpick you're sucking on was

once a log.

change-up,

and yr/children will look at u differently

than we looked at our parents
 
--Haki R. Madhubuti

On this day,

in 1940,

Hattie McDaniel known for her supporting roles became the first African American to win the Oscar Award for her role as 'Mammy' in the movie 'Gone With The Wind'. Not only was she the first African American to receive this award, but the was the only woman to have received it until Whoopi Goldberg received the same award for her role in the movie 'Ghost'.


(and this week, in 2012 Octavia Spencer, won The Academy Award for a similar role of a black woman subservient to a white woman.)

Another Wednesday Flashback

Wednesday Flashback