eLZhi is one of my FAVORITE artists.
Q-Tip Traces African Ancestry:
Dear okayafrica, call me and help a sista out!
I saw this happen on Judy Hatchet. She traced her roots to West Afrika. I want to know where my people originated. I wonder how much this quick genealogy trace costs? I want one! Here is their website: http://www.okayafrica.com
All pictures of the beach make me both excited and nervous. I believe this to be so due to it being the planned place of which I will be exchanging my wedding vows in 3 months!
Free Kendall Gibson
For more than ten years he has spent 23 hours a day in a cell no bigger than a small bathroom at the Greensville Correction Center in Virginia-simply because of his refusal to cut his locs to an appropriate length.
Free all political prisoners and those behind bars for unjust reasons…
*sings*
Hey, dirty, baby I got your money
Don’t your worry, I said hey.
Baby I got your money
(Source: greedyleonardo)
I found my wedding dress yesterday and it wasn’t at Alfred Angelo or David’s Bridal *cough* money hungry national bridal dress chain stores. Instead I opted for a local boutique. Sure I paid more than I probably would have at the two aforementioned places, yet I receive my sales rep & the seamstress’ full undivided attention and that made all the difference. Nothing sells me a product/service better than great customers service.
The reason I know customer service sold me this dress, is because I was adamant about not having a white dress, but I ended up with one anyway.
One thing is for certain. For $1058.00 you can bet I’m going to wear this thing 4 more times. That’s right, I’m wearing this dress every time I renew my vows and I intend to do that every 10 years….unless I have a daughter sometime between now and then and she decides she wants the dress for her own ceremony. But if that’s not the case. I know my husband better not die before I get to wear it 4 times, so I can get my money’s worth.
I think I might go back and buy the hair flower too (see picture #1). Not sure how I’m going to wear my hair yet so I’ll do that at the last minute.
The old woman made mint
Candy for the children
Who’d bolt through her front door,
Silhouettes of the great blue
Heron. She sold ten-dollar potions
From a half-lit kitchen. Chinese boxes
Furnished with fliers & sinkers. Sassafras
& lizard tongues. They’d walk out
Of the woods or drive in from cities,
Clutching lovesick dollar bills
At a side door that opened beside
A chinaberry tree. Did their eyes
Doubt under Orion as voices
Of the dead spoke? They carried
Photos, locks of hair, nail clippings,
& the first three words of a wish
I used to work in a restaurant as a waitress/server. One day I was attending to this table of ladies and I over heard them talking about Communism in an ill light. Do you know they left the restaurant mad that day and I didn’t get tipped. Because they were speaking out of ignorance and I knew all too better the price of giving them the truth…& that’s what I did. Communism and socialism are far better than this capitalist state which is the United States. People say “we the people” and think that there is democracy here, because we have a Democratic party, but the truth is the truth, & I will not deny the truth.
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