Video: Mara Triangle Maasai Villages Association

Mara Triangle Maasai Villages Association from Joseph Kimojino on Vimeo.

For more information and how to help.

H/T Global Voices Online

Late (for me) but Hilarious

This Makes Me Feel Good

Mariposa, "Diasporican"

H/T Sofrito for Your Soul

Favorite line: "Yo no nacio en Puerto Rico/Puerto Rico nacio en mi." It's got a Julia de Burgos swag to it.

A Visual Literacy Moment

Watch this video without sound.



Then turn the sound up. Is this clever cognitive dissonance or a clever lie?

I know. That's mad vague. I don't want to give too much away though.

Discuss.

(Sidenote: The girl looks more and more like her big sis every day)

H/T Purple Zoe over at the Ultraviolet Underground

X-Posted @ YBP

As Summer Wanes...

...remember when music videos had a range of colors, body types and layers of clothing?

If not, let's reflect.

(I used to love this song!)



H/T : The Hypesters

Morning Video Love

South Africa supposedly banned this SABC television commercial (although there are reports it is still running) of an alternative Soweto.



(Courtesy Chioma via Grupo Afrodescendiente)


I think because of Summer of Our Lorde, I am thinking more and more about our [insert poc, woc, queer & trans, working class here] anger. Note how this man's anger simmers and then righteously explodes. I felt like I was watching myself waiting to speak....except, as a woc, I may not have spoken at all and let it simmer...because too many of us don't speak our anger and let it sit...and now imagine that anger sitting somewhere in my stomach, twisting, growing, into something dangerous....like violence...or cancer...

Anyway, here's the clip.



(Courtesy: Renee @ Womanist Musings)

And this video has gone around before. Let's give it another push around again. What's worse? The C-word? Or the N-word? And is there a radio silence on the McCain and the first?

Diaspora Music: Celtic Thunder

Because I respect, appreciate and am a student of all diasporas.

And because I'm eclectic.

Haters sit down.






[N.M., you're gonna love the next one. If only because Keith Harkin is adorable. And then you're going to open your iTunes and look for their album or PBS special. I know you.....]

Dedicated to....

...una india Taino de Utuado....

...una mujer boriquena de Nueva York...

...dos ninas de color de Chicago....

because
our/people were never stolen/we/were never your slaves
just reluctant martyrs

because
we were made to dance like apostles
until miracles fall back to earth

because
we are the ones that birthed it
we are the ones that birthed it
we are the ones that birthed it
and we nicknamed it....



God.



[and thank you to the Firewalker who passed it my way]

A Girl Like Me (2005)

I know A Girl Like Me, a short documentary by Kiri Davis, has gone around the women and gender, feminist and radical women of color networks a few times. But it popped up on Power to the People a few days ago so I thought I'd just give it another push around.

It is only 7 minutes long. If you haven't seen it, give it a view.

Spring Fever = Racists Gone Wild?

I'm more than speechless--I'm silenced. I feel like a Kara Walker silhouette: bruised, exposed, slithering, ripped, violent and violated. Cancerous. Boxed and screaming.

I can't talk about it. But I can blog about it. And even that not well because I'm still looking for the words around the hand over my mouth....

(Toma.)

The video, created to protest a mandate by the university to integrate facilities....




Open Thread: Pat Buchanan Tells Black Woman to Shut Up, Defends Ferraro

Video: Olberman on Clinton

YES! If you haven't seen this, click the link and watch it. This is not politics as usual. FINALLY someone is REALLY TALKING ABOUT IT, ALL OF IT!

Mira:




(Thank you, Racialicious)