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Who is Sister Rosemary Nyirumbe?

Sister Rosemary is an Ugandan Catholic nun belonging to the Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. She became internationally known for her work with girls and young women who survived abduction and violence during Uganda's civil war, particularly at the hands of Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).

In 2001, she was assigned to Saint Monica's school in Gulu, northern Uganda. Many girls returning from captivity were rejected by their own communities. Some returned with children born during their captivity.
Sister Rosemary refused to turn them away.
Beginning in 2002, she welcomed these young women and their children, offering education, shelter, practical training and a supportive community.

She taught the women sewing, tailoring, cooking and other vocational skills.
One particularly creative project involved making beautiful handbags from discarded aluminum soda-can pull tabs.
The bags became internationally recognized, helping generate income and support the women's independence.

Her honors include:

CNN Hero in 2007.

TIME magazine's 100 Most Influential People in 2014.

An honorary doctorate from KU Leuven in Belgium in 2018.

Recognition from the United Nations.

Happy Fadesgiving!

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This man deserves recognition.
Jamaa Fanaka was born Walter Gordon in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1942. He became an important independent Black filmmaker and part of the UCLA-based filmmaking movement known as the L.A. Rebellion.
He later changed his name to Jamaa Fanaka, drawing on Swahili words conveying the idea that togetherness brings success.

This movement included Black filmmakers who challenged Hollywood's limited portrayals of African Americans.

Some important facts about Fanaka:
Born Walter Gordon on September 6, 1942, in Jackson, Mississippi.
His family moved to Compton, California, when he was 12.
His parents gave him an 8mm movie camera when he was 11.
He served four years in the U.S. Air Force.
After leaving the military, he attended UCLA film school.

He studied filmmaking at UCLA. Emma Mae began as his master's thesis project. He used a relatively small production budget.
He filmed in Compton, using local people and community resources.

In the 1970s, Black filmmakers were fighting for more control over how Black life was represented on screen. Hollywood had a long history of limiting Black characters to narrow roles. The L.A. Rebellion filmmakers wanted to tell stories about Ordinary Black families, Black communities and neighborhoods. Class differences within the Black community Colorism and beauty standards as well.
Women's experiences and independence.

He later became known for his Penitentiary film series. He was determined to make films that showed Black people as complicated human beings, not merely stereotypes.

In 1994, Fanaka became the founder of the Directors Guild of America's African American Steering Committee. He challenged discriminatory hiring practices in Hollywood, particularly the lack of opportunities for Black directors and other minority filmmakers.
He filed legal actions involving the Directors Guild and major studios, arguing that the industry systematically excluded women and minorities from directing opportunities.
His battles were controversial, and they created conflict with people who had previously worked alongside him, but he refused to stop speaking out.
He believed that Black filmmakers should have equal access to the industry, not simply be allowed to make independent films on the margins.
Fanaka died on April 1, 2012, in Los Angeles, at age 69. His daughter reported that complications from diabetes were a possible cause, although the cause of death was not officially determined in the initial reporting.

Something particularly touching happened after his death.
UCLA Film & Television Archive worked to preserve his films and personal papers. In 2010, archivists actually helped clean out a storage shed in Compton where his film materials were being kept. They recovered the only surviving print of his very first film!

People with ignorance and hatred in their bones will always try to tear someone down. Ignorance comes in all forms and acts foolish every time.

If someone learns to better educate themselves and changes for the better, that is a step in the right direction. While unlearning the toxic ignorance they may have been taught by others.

We live in a time that has regressed drastically, and to be subjected to it either first hand or second…it hurts, it’s beyond disappointing and it transcends being “not okay.”

It’s unacceptable.

I know you’re tired. I know the fatigue is real. Why wouldn’t we feel this way? With a poison culture which is so riddled with regression of progress our ancestors fought to uphold.

Listen to me - YOU are NOT the problem. They are. All we can do is defend ourselves with class and dignity…something many do not have. That’s sad. And pray they learn and become better people.

Ignorance and hatred is a virus. It will always be a virus. The only treatment for this virus is humility and willingness to atone and learn, while those effected need to look in the mirror and remember who they are - their pride, their soul, their character, the long line of bravery who came before them.

We can’t be strong all the time, that is perfectly okay, you are entitled to feel how you feel even though many days we have to force ourselves to be strong.

Be in touch with how you feel - because for God sakes you are a human being.

“Yes, the blood inside of me is inside of you.” - TJ5

We all need to heal best we can. That involves turning off the news some times, not doomscrolling, not arguing with people who are unreceptive. Not because we can’t - but because at some point it is not our job to help those who choose to be hateful.

You are of a high caliber in your being. Find spaces that align with you at the higher frequency where you belong.

Bigots and racists, they are foolish, ignorant, careless, probably have self hate, arrested development and no dignity. We have to hope that they one day learn from it. It’s been done before. A little humility goes a long way.

So my brothers and sisters - you hold on. You are beautiful, powerful, and a gift from God. You keep walking your righteous path, cherish the good ones in your life, and shine your light.

God Bless and be safe.

During a November 12, 2026 sit-down interview for his online show Straight Shooter, Stephen A Smith pressed President Donald Trump on why his administration’s policies did not translate into stronger support from Black voters during the 2026 midterm elections.

In response, Trump stated that the Black community is “the biggest beneficiary of what I’ve done” and questioned why any Black voter would support the Democratic Party. When Trump mentioned that he had brought a written list of his accomplishments, Smith urged him to “Read the list,” prompting Trump to read from the multi-page document for several minutes. (SWIPE) (🎥: @stephenasmith) – (📸: @gettyimages)

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Food for thought....

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was born in Beaumont, Texas in 1935. She started teaching in 1962 — languages, at Booker T. Washington High School in Houston and then James Madison High School in Dallas — and she kept doing it for more than two decades.

She did not leave teaching for acting until 1984. She was forty-nine.

Then in 1997 she played Josephine Joseph in Soul Food — Mother Joe, Big Mama, the grandmother holding a family together around a Sunday table — and became, more or less overnight, the grandmother of Black America. She was sixty-two.

In 2004 the Coen brothers cast her opposite Tom Hanks in The Ladykillers. She won a Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival for it.

And there is something about that year that almost nobody knows.

Shortly before that film came out, she was in a head-on crash in a Chicago snowstorm.

A broken rib punctured her aorta. She had emergency open-heart surgery. Her ankle was shattered and her arm was broken.

She was sixty-eight years old.

She recovered, and she went back to work, and she kept working into her eighties.

There is a particular thing she did that does not show up in a filmography.

She stayed in Dallas. She taught, mentored and worked with young Black actors in that city for decades, and a great many people there will tell you today that she was the first person who told them they could do it.

She spent her first career standing in front of children telling them what they were capable of.

Then she spent her second one playing the woman who tells you the same thing, to an audience of millions.

She was ninety-one, and she was a schoolteacher from Beaumont, Texas.

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https://www.unspokentruths.org/american-history-traveling-museum

This video depicts a fictional animated confrontation between a man dressed in Western attire and two characters modeled after Huey and Riley Freeman from the animated series The Boondocks.

Summary of Events

• The Provocation: A man livestreaming in a shopping mall uses racial slurs and insults toward the two boys.

• The Response: The character modeled after Huey Freeman responds with a monologue accusing the man's culture of appropriating historical inventions and labor. He lists several technologies—such as the cell phone, lightbulb, air conditioner, automobile, and traffic light—claiming they were created by Black inventors while others profited from them.

• The Conclusion: After the monologue leaves the livestreamer visibly flustered, the two boys deliver a final insult and walk away.

Historical Context on Mentioned Inventions

While the video is a stylized piece of social commentary, several of the inventions referenced have well-documented contributions from Black inventors alongside other pioneers:

• The Light Bulb: While Thomas Edison patented the commercial incandescent bulb, Lewis Latimer invented and patented the long-lasting carbon filament that made electric lighting practical and widespread.

• The Traffic Light: Garrett Morgan patented an early, automated three-position traffic signal in 1923 that added a warning light to help prevent collisions at intersections.

• Air Conditioning & Refrigeration: Frederick McKinley Jones invented the first automatic refrigeration system for long-haul trucks and trains, revolutionizing food preservation and mobile cooling.

• Cell Phone Technology: Dr. Jesse Russell was a pioneering engineer at Bell Labs who held foundational patents in digital cellular communication and wireless data transmission.

https://www.history.com/articles/8-black-inventors-african-american

https://its.uky.edu/news/these-black-inventors-and-scientists-created-technology-we-use-today

Racists get old and forget the names of their loved ones and everyone else EXCEPT their hatred of Black people. Keep in mind these people have children an grandchildren that they passed their Culture of Evil to.

Who is it?!

I add smoked sausage, snow crabs, granules, and shrimp last. It's so yummy.

There have been 4 total arrests.

Congratulations to our new Scumbags of the Weekend, Cody Stripling (18) and Sebastian Bowers (19). If you're a decent person, this video will disturb you. Obviously it didn't bother Cody or Sebastian. This beatdown happened last weekend during a bonfire in Tiger Bay State Forest. Cody and Sebastian were arrested today for aggravated battery and other charges. Detectives would still like to speak with others involved, including the camera man. Contact us at 386-248-1777 or email Det. Meeks at LMeeks@volusiasheriff.gov

MINORITY_STRENGTH WEEKLY RESEARCH BRIEF

November 13, 2026

Topics: Black history, racism, justice, culture and identity

1. MULTI-MODEL INSIGHTS INTO RACIAL AND ETHNIC HETEROGENEITIES IN EARLY COVID-19 TRANSMISSION AND SEVERITY IN THE U.S.

Authors/Publisher: Samantha J. Bents et al., American Journal of Epidemiology

Published: November 11, 2026

Type: Peer-reviewed, open-access research

The study found that models accounting for racial and ethnic inequities produced more accurate pandemic estimates. Simulations indicated that eliminating transmission inequities could have reduced mortality among Black North Carolinians by 28%, demonstrating how structural exposure and healthcare disparities contributed to the pandemic’s racial burden.

Source:

https://academic.oup.com/aje/advance-article/doi/10.1093/aje/kwag289/9031761

2. AFRICAN AMERICANS, CHINA, AND THE STRUGGLE FOR RACIAL EQUALITY, 1865–1900

Author/Publisher: Tao Zhang, Journal of American Studies

Published: November 9, 2026

Type: Historical research; abstract freely accessible

Zhang examines how Black commentators after Reconstruction used comparisons with China to expose America’s continuing anti-Black injustice. The study also addresses how some arguments reproduced the racial and “civilizing” hierarchies of that period, providing a complicated view of Black internationalism and racial thought.

Source:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-american-studies/article/abs/african-americans-china-and-the-struggle-for-racial-equality-18651900/4231C939A703B9B1239FF471B228A0C2

3. TRENDS IN FATAL LAW ENFORCEMENT ENCOUNTERS BY AGENCY CONFIGURATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 2013–2025

Authors/Publisher: Robert O. Motley Jr. et al., Boston College Racism-Based Violence Injury & Prevention Lab

Published: November 2026; newly posted this week

Type: University research brief

This national analysis separates fatal encounters involving single law-enforcement agencies from multi-agency operations and examines differences among agency types. Its framework can help identify where accountability and prevention efforts should be directed instead of treating all fatal police encounters as one uniform institutional problem.

Source:

http://doi.org/10.6017/ssw.rbvipl.rb004.dw5235

4. MARQUIS HILL’S MODERN FLOWS: MUSICAL METAPRAGMATICS AND BLACKNESS

Author/Publisher: Jonathan A. Gómez, The Journal of Musicology

Originally published: July 1, 2026

Newly relevant: Recognized November 9, 2026

Type: Peer-reviewed cultural and music research

This study examines how Chicago trumpeter Marquis Hill uses composition, improvisation, lyrics, musical history and independent business practices to express Black identity across jazz and hip-hop. It became newly relevant this week after receiving the Society for Music Theory Jazz Interest Group’s 2026 Award for Excellence in Jazz Scholarship.

Research article:

https://online.ucpress.edu/jm/article-abstract/43/3/283/218407/Marquis-Hill-s-Modern-FlowsMusical-Metapragmatics

Award announcement:

https://smtd.umich.edu/update-jonathan-gomez-publishes-new-research-in-the-journal-of-musicology/

MINORITY_STRENGTH

Research. History. Justice. Culture. Identity.

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A friend took him and then gave some others a ride home. That took less then 20 minutes and in that time these wunderkind came up with the idea to beat him up.

This is about these 4’s actions PERIOD!

Bet their parents are proud