Every party, every dance, we made our Soul Train line
Don Cornelius Grooving Down the Soul Train Line
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The Life & Times of Tina BANG.: QuestLove on Don Cornelius (and what he meant to Black America) →
you guys see this bag?
this bag has NEVER left my side for the past 14 years. I deemed it imperative that i NEVER part with it. you can imagine the arguments i’ve gotten into with flight attendants over that bag. this bag is my blue blanket to my linus. i carry that bag everywhere cause…
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Meanwhile, In Mongolia of the Day: Footage of a nomadic Mongolian family erecting a temporary home known as a “ger” or “yurt” in just over an hour set to Mongolian throat music.
You can learn more about the ger (pronounced “gair”), the Shagdarsuren family, and traditional Mongolian customs in Dan Grossman’s report for National Geographic.
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pop-up yurt
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Today In Latin American History
Former Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán, who was deposed in a US-backed coup in 1954, died while in exile in Mexico on January 27, 1971.
Never forget.
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Toni Morrison gave Angela Davis a hand working out the shape of her autobiography.
“One of the reasons that so many people of color and poor people are in prison is that the deindustrialization of the economy has led to the creation of new economies and the expansion of some old ones – I have already mentioned the drug trade and the market for sexual services. At the same time, though, there are any number of communities that more than welcome prisons as a source of employment. Communities even compete with one another to be the site where new prisons will be constructed because prisons create a significant number of relatively good jobs for their residents”
Photo: Angela Davis with Toni Morrison, and her son Slade Morrison…
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Comme elle est belle!
