“No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.”
― Assata Shakur
Tag: Blackness
From Ring Shouts to Stepping and Strolling: The Evolution of a Tradition Comes Full Circle
The evolution of stepping and strolling, from its roots in the ring shout, to today’s current rituals, has played a momentous part in the history of Black Greek Letter Organizations. In using these sacred ceremonial dances and patterns, Black Greek students everywhere have been able to honor their predecessors and ancestors, while building a strong sense of self-identity and kinship.
Black Trauma
Black life in America is currently and has always been, surrounded by violence and racial trauma. Rather the violence is physical or verbal, so-called self-inflicted or “cultural” is beside the point, but the fact that violence and life in America as a black person is institutionally intertwined can’t be denied.
Dismantling Internalized Racism Part I: Recognizing The Problem
Just as racism results in the system of structural advantage called white privilege for white people and their communities, Internalized Racism results in a system of structural disadvantages for black people and communities of color on inter- and intra-group levels.
Soundtracks For The Soul: Quick Introduction
A new series that features songs/albums for the culture BY the culture.
The Ghetto Activist 