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Mounia, Yves Saint Laurent, and Iman

Naomi Campbell continues her fight against racism in the fashion industry.

Shani O. Hilton on Ta-Nehisi Coates' new book "Between The World and Me."

What is Black Twitter?

 Zeba Blay on the madness behind the media's vitriolic attacks on six-time Wimbledon champion Serena Williams.

Legendary jewel thief Doris Payne is spending her golden years robbing jewelry stores.



Source: The Washington Post

 

 

Watch the trailer of "The Life and Crimes of Doris Payne."

  

Celebrating Ida B. Wells

 

 

Thursday, July 16 was the 153rd anniversary of Ida B. Wells' birth. Ms. Wells was the original activist polymath. She applied her formidable intellect and journalistic skills to the unpopular project of ending state sanctioned tyranny against black people. She led the anti-lynching movement while also being a pioneer in civil rights, women's rights and free speech.

 

You can read Ida B. Wells' 1892 pamphlet "Southern Horrors: Lynch Laws in All Its Phases" at gutenberg. org  She dedicated the pamphlet to her zealous supporters. "To the Afro-American women of New York and Brooklyn, whose race love, and earnest zeal and unselfish effort at Lyric Hall, in the City of New York, on the night of October 5, 1892- made possible its publication, this pamphlet is gratefully dedicated by the author."

Wells was celebrated yesterday with tributes to her unwavering commitment to equality.

Hillary Crosley Coker at Jezebel wrote a well-researched and inspired article highlighting the history of Wells' activism.

Hark! A Vagrant posted a marvelous cartoon celebrating her relentless quest for justice.

Vox honored Wells for the way she used observable data about lynchings to craft a multifaceted approach to raising awareness and outrage about the practice.

Google honored her with a doodle.

 

 

 

 

 

They lived

In Nona Faustine's White Shoes series, she casts herself to stand for the women who survived the horrors of the Middle Passage and were then sold into a life of unrelenting terror. Her work is courageous and beautiful and heart wrenching. With her body, Faustine shows us enslaved Africans are in every sinew of this nation. It's bricks and mortar, fields and streams, and rocky coastlines harbor the degradation of slavery. Wall Street, the hub of international capitalism, was the auction block.

http://nonafaustine.virb.com/  

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A skosh of the tantalizing tidbits online.

Ruby Dee and Nat King Cole

Source: LA Times



Shernold Edwards ("Sleepy Hollow," "Haven"), Courtney Kemp Agboh ("Power," "The Good Wife") and Robin Thede ("The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore") on their careers in television.

Practical life advice from Tracee Ellis Ross.

Adventures in pizza delivery.

The Dissolve has closed up shop. 

Marie Curie's home and its contents will be radioactive for at least 1,500 years.

 

Marie Curie, Source: mentalfloss.com

Happy 116th Birthday, Susannah Mushatt Jones!

Susannah Mushatt Jones, Source: Oaks Senior Living

 

Ms. Susannah Mushatt Jones is 116 years-old today and the oldest living person in the world. She has the aura of a person who has unlocked the meaning of life. Ms. Jones is the originator of the "treat yourself" philosophy of life. According to her niece Selbra Mushatt, Ms. Jones continues to appreciate fine lingerie and bacon. I am going to make the claim that undergarments exquisitely designed to enhance the beauty of the body and delicious salty meats are the secrets to longevity. This is wild conjecture on my part, but I'll allow it.

As we celebrate Ms. Jones, let us not forget the woman who made this possible. 116 year-old Jeralean Talley of the "don't waste my time" face and "I can smell the stupid on you" wrinkle of the nose died on June 18, ceding her crown of the oldest and the baddest to Ms. Susannah Mushatt Jones.

Jeralean Talley, Source: The Root