I’m so excited for ABG season 2 premiere today! So impressed with Issa Rae and the rest of her team.
Germany elects first Black mayor, John Ehret
South Africans are awesome :). Sibusiso Vilane arrived at the North Pole Thursday 12 April 2012. This was the final hurdle to becoming the first Black person to complete the Three Poles Challenge, having already conquered the South Pole and Mount Everest.
Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Wangari Maathai, passes away at age 71. She leaves behind a remarkable legacy as a champion of environmental protection, women’s rights, and political activism. (via okayafrica)
ON THIS DAY On Sept. 15, 1963, four black girls were killed when a bomb went off during Sunday services at a Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama, in the deadliest act of the civil rights era. (via NYTimes)
natalielikes: Woman in photo is using a hand drill to work on a Vultee A-31 Vengeance (American dive bomber) in Tennessee, 1943 - photo by Alfred T. Palmer
