The world we live in

So, two  top songs are made by black people.

That’s black excellence i’m living for.

Moonlight - 98%

Black excellence 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥

Felix Gary Gray is a 47-year-old American film director, film producer, music video director and actor. As a music video director, he managed to work with such famous musicians like TLC, Dr. Dre, Tupac Shakur, Mary J. Blige, Stevie Wonder, Babyface, Jay-Z etc. 

He directed such movies as  Friday, Set It Off, The Negotiator, The Italian Job and Straight Outta Compton. His last work was The Fate of the Furious made $532 million worldwide! 

This is amazing! 

Congratulations! Well done!

#BlackPride

“Her fantasy novel Children of Blood and Bone, the first of a trilogy about a young girl’s battle with a prince over bringing magic back to West Africa,  is going to be released some time next year. But it’s already got a seven-figure publishing deal with Macmillan, and a massive deal with Fox Studios too, with the latter acquiring the movie rights pretty early on in the day for a book that hasn’t even been published yet.”

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@ananadame-blog-blog im pumped

This sounds like an absolute dream!!!

Black kids are everything, I swear!

Stephanie Johnson, Dawn Cook form Delta’s first all-black, all-women cockpit

follow @the-movemnt

#BlackExcellence

Alexa Irene Canady MD, First African-American and First Female Neurosurgeon.

In 1984, Canady officially made history when she became the first black person and the first woman to be certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery. By 1987, she was Chief of Neurosurgery at Children’s Hospital in Michigan, where she worked as a pediatric neurosurgeon, and continued in that role until her retirement in 2001. But after a move to Florida, she learned she was the only pediatric neurosurgeon in the Pensacola area, so she came out of retirement to begin practicing again and serving her community as a part-time surgeon.

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#BLACKPRIDE #BLACKGIRLMAGIC #BLACKEXCELLENCE

Women, Black people, and especially Black women, just made a bunch of very late (but very welcome) history with their Oscars nominations

Moonlight! Hidden Figures! Meryl Streep! (And yes, okay, La La Land.) And there are some others, like the first Black female best editor nom, that may surprise you.

#BlackPride #YouSmart #BlackExcellence 

man i always forget how crucial karen is to blade winning in this movie

like it’s not just that while he’s in an iron maiden she rescues herself out of a dungeon, then rescues //him//, then lets him feed on her to regenerate, then while still weak and anemic she manages to //steal a shotgun from a vampire guard// and win a catfight with that blonde girl

and it’s not just that she //cures vampirism// and also invents a weapon that blade uses to defeat frost and a better serum for his war effort

and it’s not just that she is the science genius who also charges into a vampire nightclub fearlessly at blade’s side

it’s that, as said, she does all this //when she should be terrified out of her fucking mind//

it’s that whistler says ‘shoot yourself before you turn, sorry kid’ and she says 'nah fuck that, i have to save the world’

AND SHE DOES

AND BLADE //HELPED//

furiosa 1998, tbh

sometimes i think about how blade saved marvel

i think about how much blackness was in that movie

in the soundtracks

and then i think about the resistance to blackness in the current movies, in making blackness a focal point

i think about how blackness is always the bff or a small cameo

i get so mad because blackness SAVED marvel literally kept it from folding

I have so many thoughts and feelings about this

Because those Blade movies did something no other comic book movie has every done

They made a character cooler than they are on the page

Like, yeah, you and me and a bunch of people we both follow love comics and think the characters are “cool”

but how many comic book characters are actually cool? very few

Even blade, blade’s never been that cool on the page

but when they brought him to life? he exuded swag and grace (think about how rare it is for black action heroes to actually get to be graceful, like before blade it was fuckin jim kelly)

and everything that made blade cool on film is why black panther would be cool on film except black panther doesn’t need any white people’s help and he rolls deep with a squad of unfriendly black hotties

Thank you Tony Hansberry ll for your ground breaking medical contribution to women!

An African-American freshman at the Darnell-Cookman Middle/High School of Medical Arts, in Jacksonville, Florida, has a bright future ahead of him. At 14-year-old he has already come up with a surgical technique that may help surgeons reduce the risk of complications when performing surgical operations.

“People think I’m a genius,” Hansberry said. “It’s not that at all, I just like medicine.”

The young medical genius, Tony Hansberry II, reviewed various techniques of several surgeries, including hysterectomies and the instruments to perform these operations. He came up with a novel idea to be used when stitching back up the patients. The idea will help surgeons, especially those with fewer surgeries under their belt.

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Magnet schools were originally created to combat de facto segregation. I’m hoping that’s why the journalists believed it was relevant. 

Tony Hansberry came up with a radically new procedure, which involved sewing up the patients with a vertical endo stitch instead of a horizontal one. Doctors were so impressed that they tested it out on their patients. The result: It reduced recovery time, complications and pain.

#BlackPride #BlackExcellence 

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Trying to make everything about race again

Black Kids Who Rocked The World in 2016

Mari “Little Miss Flint” Copeny, 8

She’s not an ordinary black girl, she is the one who turned America’s attention to the crisis in Flint.. She wrote a letter to Obama and he decided to visit her.

  Yara Shahidi, 16

Yara not only was killin it on Black-ish , she also was really outspoken  about representation in Hollywood, climate change and youth empowerment.

Mikaila Ulmer, 12

In her effort to save the bees she starter her own business selling lemonade.  Whole Foods offered her an $11 million deal and shelf space in 55 stores across the country.

Cameron Sterling, 15

Cameron Sterling was unfortunately thrust into the public eye when his dad, Alton Sterling, was fatally shot by police in front of a Baton Rouge gas station. 

Cameron told the world that Alton Sterling was a really good Dad no matter what everyone else says, his life mattered.

Chloe x Halle, 18 and 16

They are both incredible young singers who released their debut EP this year.

Marley Dias, 12

This amazing girl collected over 7000 books in which the main characters were black girls.  #1000BlackGirlBooks. 

Egypt Ufele, 10

Shw was bullied all her life for her size but she never backed down, she turned this situation into something huge. She started her own clothing line for all sizes and debuted at New York Fashion Week with it.

Skai Jackson, 14

Disney actress Skai Jackson is a remarkable role model thanks to her self-confidence. She was a good sport when the internet turned her into a meme and showed nothing but class when she stood up to Azealia Banks’ cyberbullying. She told The Huffington Post that she doesn’t pay attention to the haters, “I’m just rooting for myself.”

Zianna Oliphant, 9

Zianna Oliphant blew the internet away with her speech at Citizens’ Forum where she spoke about the injustice in America and how people ,and especially kids, feel about this.

Nyeeam Hudson, 11

With more than 75,000 followers on Instagram, Nyeeam offers advice on how to deal with bullies and encourages others to value education.

This is our next generation and they are already so woke i’m really proud of them. From bringing attention to the importance of education and self love, to spreading information about the injustice and how to solve it. This is #BlackPower.