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Donate to In Memory of Mimi: Support Her Family, organized by Nidia Pena-Atristain This gofundme is in memory of Edwina "Mimi" Carrion-Loucks, daughter, siste… Nidia Pena-Atristain needs your support for In Memory of Mimi: Support Her Family

In deep sadness, I'm sharing news of the loss of Mimi Carrion-Loucks, a dear friend. My condolences to her husband Doug Loucks, her daughter Maya & all her loved ones & friends. We are doing a fundraiser to support her family in this time of sorrow, see below. www.gofundme.com/f/support-do...

Black Music Sunday: Musical tributes to our fallen soldiers Black Music Sunday is a weekly series highlighting all things Black music, with over 260 stories covering performers, genres, history, and more, each featuring its own vibrant soundtrack. I hope you��

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Don't forget to read the comments section and listen to the tunes folks are posting - and if you have an account, post the songs that you remember

Caribbean Matters: Commemorating Indian Arrival Days Caribbean Matters is a weekly series from Daily Kos. Hope you’ll join us here every Saturday. If you are unfamiliar with the region, check out Caribbean Matters: Getting to know the countries of ...

#CaribbeanMatters: Commemorating Indian Arrival Days.
Explore Indo-Caribbean history and contemporary communities
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Given the Trump cabal’s denialist stance on climate change, this battle has never been more critical. We need to deal with environmental issues here at home but we also need to be cognizant & supportive of organizations, initiatives, & leaders in our neighboring Caribbean region

Myrna Pagan is a member of The National Coucil of Elders & a resident of Vieques. She's going on this journey to learn how the people of Vietnam have coped w/ the environmental damage of the war. Vieques continues to be impacted by military waste & contamination. Please read more below.

Image: © Rachel Giese Brown from https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/mary-oliver Mary Oliver with an open book, and a dog looking at each other in black and white.

Sunday morning thought:

“You must never stop being whimsical.

And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life."

― Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays.

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From Vieques to Vietnam: Support Myrna in Building Global Solidarity Support the National Council of Elders inter-generational delegation to Viet Nam in observation of the 50th Anniversary of the Reunification of Viet Nam/end of the U.S. war on Viet Nam!

Support Myrna Pagan's trip to Vietnam to rep the children of Vieques. The National Council of Elders' intergenerational trip Viêt Nam to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the reunification of Viêt Nam / End of the War in Viêt Nam. Please repost, donate what you can.

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Black Music Sunday: Some tunes about time as the times are a-changin’ It’s that time again, when most of the United States begins to observe daylight saving time , in which we “spring forward;” setting our clocks ahead for an hour, with exceptions : Arizona ...

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Caribbean Matters: Celebrate International Women’s Day with these writers Caribbean Matters � is a weekly series from Daily Kos. Hope you’ll join us here every Saturday. If you are unfamiliar with the region, check out Caribbean Matters: Getting to know the countries of ...

Thank you Denise! I'm honored to be included in your tribute to Caribbean women writers in Caribbean Matters! Maryse Condé, Jamaica Kindcaid, Julia de Burgos, Edwidge Danticat and Mayra Santos Febres who
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Mon, March 10, 2025, 2:30pm - 4:30pm, Lehman College!
The Women's & Gender Studies Program & Africana Studies Dept hosts Fiercely Uplifting HerStory, A Celebration of Black History and Women's History! Featuring Linda La & Open Mic! Faculty, students and community welcome!
FREE event RSVP Required.

"Black History is American History is 339 years of trauma is prologue to today's trauma is your History is unforgettable is unmistakenly uneraseable " - Mariposa,verse ekphrastically inspired by this dialogue. #blueskypoems #poetry #poems #writing #poets #poetsofbluesky
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George Washington House in Bridgetown, Barbados
"a set of mannequin’s representing an enslaved man and child as well as a display case of chains, shackles, and tools for punishment"
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The one and only 🐐 Bob Marley would’ve turned 80 today 🙏

"Until the philosophy which hold one race superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, well everywhere is WAR."

Vieques January 2025

A view for you @mellesol.bsky.social just a little more sky for your blue skies & some clouds for you to soar / Caribbean blue ocean blue almost as deep as my love for you

Happy Black History month! Join us as we celebrate the DIVERSITY of Blackness & honor it's Caribbean connections! Check out this week's Caribbean Matters by @deniseoliver-velez.bsky.social

Black Kos Tuesday: A muse on D.E.I.
Commentary from Black Kos Editor Chitown Kev bsky.app/profile/chit...
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@mellesol.bsky.social a little green for your Blue Skies.

Looking for my blue sky pics. @mellesol.bsky.social Love yours

These are some of the companies that have rolled back their DEI programs…..

For grown folks at these big companies that really used the wording “we are scaling back our DEI initiatives” just sound like you are saying to the people at company you can be homophobic, racist, misogynist, xenophobic a little now JUST a little.

My very awesome, very gorgeous, totally adorable, Geordi & Jadzia #linxpoint #cats #bondedsiblingpair #rescuecats #catsofbluesky #blueskycats #startrekcats

Caribbean Matters: The response to Biden's pardon of Marcus Garvey Caribbean Matters � is a weekly series from Daily Kos. Hope you’ll join us here every Saturday. If you are unfamiliar with the region, check out Caribbean Matters: Getting to know the countries of ...

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A picture of every Vice-President in order, alongside a picture of Kamala Harris. Four of the VP pictures are outlined, one in red, the next in blue, the next in yellow, and the final in green.

"Putting Kamala Harris as VP into perspective. See the red box? Until then, she would have been enslaved. See the blue box? Until then, she couldn’t vote. Yellow box? Until then, she had to attend a segregated school. The green one? Until then she couldn’t have her own bank account."

Tuskegee Airman, Lt. Colonel John W. Mosley, born in Denver's Five Points neighborhood

Learn history and teach it to your children and all who will listen, particularly as it relates to the contributions of Black people and minority groups. One goal that’s becoming more than apparent is to “cleanse” the history books in the advancement of White Nationalism. This is not a drill.

pulls out my Tuskegee Airmen avirex thats a size too big, that I will be wearing all BHM, I'm about to be so obnoxiously Black this February.

#Blacksky
#Blackskyover40

Puerto Ricans in Philadelphia Battle Historical Inequalities in Health Services
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