About me: Good Sista/Bad Sista, aka Turiya and Walidah, are black woman supa soul sista poets who formed like Voltron and are also loved by good and feared by evil (aka imperialist oppressive assholes!)
Peace Yall, Tomorrow is the kickoff for my new project. Blacque Butterfly Presents Soulful Showcase Sundays. A place to chill and get your talent on and see some others do so as well. The club is located at 720 on SE 7th and Hawthorne ( Old Viper Room). The first night will be December 7th and every Sunday there after. There will be food and beverages available for consumption, along with Spoken word with Live Entertainment. Bring your instruments and come have a sit in. We are going to have a jam session and a few features. We will be forming a house band with those chosen from the showcases. Come on out and show what you got!! Make sure to contact me to sign up to feature for unpcoming Sundays. Hit me up here on myspace or email me at blacquebutterflypdx@gmail.com. This is a great opportunity to showcase your talent and get some exposure. The cover is only $5.00.... Looking forward to seeing you in the spot. Strength thru struggle. Butterfly
Kevin Wicks was a 38-year old father of two little girls. He had worked at the U.S. Post Office for 19-years.
Does that sound like somebody who would point a gun at a police officer???
If you think that’s a trip, check this out: the Inglewood Police officer who murdered Kevin Wicks on Monday of last week is the same cop who shot and murdered 19-year old Michael Byoune on May 11th.
Wicks’ murder is the 3rd in Inglewood in as many months.
Join us today as we talk with activist and attorney Nana Gyamfi of Human Rights Advocacy about grassroots, people approaches to police murder in our communities …
“Success: A New Beginning, Inc.” has been engaged in the process of developing and nurturing “non-traditional leaders” in our community for the last four years. They’ll be graduating their latest class of folks – 32 in all – this Saturday at L.A. Trade Tech College. We’ll be speaking with Maryanne Galindo of SANBI to explore exactly what a “non-traditional leader” is …
Whether you are a Hip-Hop Head or not … if you lived in Los Angeles during the 90s, you knew about the Good Life on Exposition and Crenshaw. The Good Life was a place where you could not only get a healthy eat on, but on Thursday nights if you were an aspiring MC you could step up to the mic, and the audience would be treated to cutting edge hip-hop in a positive environment.
A new film about those nights and those MC’s at the Good Life is winning awards everywhere it shows. It’s called “This is The Life,” and we’ll “chop it up” and ‘freestyle’ about “The Life” with the director, Ava DuVernay, and sample some of that music.
Thandisizwe Chimurenga will have all-a-dat and more today, on Some of Us Are Brave.
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I posted some beach photos. And I blogged about it- i have never seen this much hail hit the ground over a 4 day span, than my 4 days at the beach! And It had the nerve to snow too! During spring break no less!
Madness! I should have taken more pics of the weather, talk about strange!
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"The only dream worth having is to dream that you will live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead. To love, to be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and vulgar disparity of the life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never to forget." - Arundhati Roy
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