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I remember a time where I used to be embarrassed about the way I looked, more specifically, my dark-mahogany complexion, plump lips and kinky hair. Such is def

Source: Stop Being a Walking Apology for your Skin Tone Dark Skinned Women

The Billingslea boys, Joshua, 11, Isaiah, 9, Caleb, 7 and Micah, 5 are better known as the Yummy Brothers.

Source: Four brothers, all under age 11, start their own cookie empire | 11alive.com

A team of South Sudanese teenagers was recently at FIRST Global Challenge, a robotics and AI competition hosted by Dubai Future Foundation under the theme

Source: Meet South Sudanese teens working on robot that can clean River Nile of plastic waste [VIDEO]

Dothan, AL — 12 police officers in Dothan, Alabama, who were apparently members of a domestic hate group, have been found to have set up and falsely accused over 1,000 Black men with the intention to put them behind bars even though they were innocent.

Source: Police in Alabama Set Up and Falsely Arrested Over 1,000 Innocent Black Men

2019 marked the 400th anniversary of the first enslaved Africans being brought to America. Can we finally talk about slavery’s legacy?

Source: From Slavery to Mass Incarceration | Ben & Jerry’s

I just got off work and I’m a bit tired, so I’m gonna make a longer post a little later.

For now, I’m just gonna share this article.

“Of all days in the year, the slaves dread New Year’s Day the worst of any,” one 1842 account explained. Here’s why.

Source: The Dark History of New Year’s Day in American Slavery | Time

The African American pioneer built an alternative to Hollywood, starting in the year race riots burned across America.

Source: How Oscar Micheaux defied Hollywood to make the first all-black feature film – CNET

Many of us think of the word “ancestors” as referring to ancient human-like beings, but if we go further back into time, we can see that our ancestors WERE ACTUALLY microscopic entities. And since our digestive system consists of trillions of microbes, we actually carry around most of our bodily “ancestors”…in our guts. Isn’t that convenient? So IF we carry our ancestors in our guts, then shouldn’t we be able to connect to our ancestors at any time…by just listening…to our guts?

Source: How the Soil Became Our Soul: Fasting, Spirituality, and the Ancestors — Steemit

Technology is the single greatest contributor to climate change but it may also soon be used to offset the damage we’ve done to our planet since the Industrial Age began.

In September 2018, a project in Myanmar used drones to fire “seed missiles” into remote areas of the country where trees were not growing. Less than a year later, thousands of those seed missiles have sprouted into 20-inch mangrove saplings that could literally be a case study in how technology can be used to innovate our way out of the climate change crisis.

“We now have a case confirmed of what species we can plant and in what conditions,” Irina Fedorenko, co-founder of Biocarbon Engineering, told Fast Company. “We are now ready to scale up our planting and replicate this success.”

 

Source: These tree-planting drones are firing ‘seed missiles’ into the ground. Less than a year later, they’re already 20 inches tall. – GOOD

As the coffee harvest drew to a close in the rolling hills of southeastern Brazil, labor inspectors raced to two …

Source: While World Demand for Slave-free Coffee Grows, Brazil Finds Ways to Cheat Consumers – brazzil