In 2010, activist Jeannine Kayembe Oro founded Urban Creators, an organization that uses food, art, and education as tools to nurture resilience and self-determination in Black neighborhoods.
#BlackResilience #GreenSpaces #BlackLove
In Black Faces, White Spaces, Carolyn Finney looks beyond the discourse of the environmental justice movement to examine how the natural environment has been understood, commodified, and represented by both white and black Americans.
#BlackLiterature #BlackResilience #EnvironmentalChange
Carl Anthony is the founder of Breakthrough Communities, a non-profit organization committed to building multi-racial, multi-cultural leadership for sustainable metropolitan communities in California, the United States, and the rest of the world.
#BlackPower #SocialJustice #BlackResilience
Ingrid R. G. Waldron's, There’s Something in the Water, exposes the environmental injustice practiced by the government against Indigenous and Black communities.
#BlackLiterature #BlackResilience #BHM
Meet Dr. Robert Bullard, father of environmental justice and founding director of the Bullard center for Environmental and Climate Justice.
#blackpower #blackresilience #blackexcellence
🌻 Black History Fact:
Sunflowers were widely used in Black homestead gardens after slavery—easy to grow, nourishing, and resilient.
They became symbols of self-sufficiency, survival, and hope.
We come from people who bloomed anyway.
#BHM #BlackHistoryFacts #BlackResilience #Black365
📣 SAVE THE DATE 📣
YRAACC invites you to a powerful celebration of culture, heritage, and community!
📅Saturday, February 14, 2026
#BHM2026 #BlackLove #BlackJoy #BlackResilience #YRAACC #BlackHistoryMonth #OurStoryLivesOn #YorkRegion #CommunityUnity #BlackExcellence
Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Law, one of the most devastating pieces of legislation for enslaved and free Black people.
#BlackHistory365 #OnThisDay #FugitiveSlaveLaw #FreedomFighters #NeverForget #BlackResilience #TheEnglandManor #AAM_EM
He (they) may ride high on their horses now, throwing bricks and manure at us. But we are Black, resilient, and rooted in generations of strength. We take their hate and turn it into gardens, homes, and harvests. Believe it ✊🏾🌻 #BlackResilience #FromBricksToGardens
Great article on Gas Station #Food (in the US)
Gas Station Food Is Southern #BlackResilience
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Our #strength isn’t just in #endurance but in #transformation—turning #burdens into #bridges, #hardships into #legacies. We #build, we #uplift, we #rise. 🔥✊🏾 #BlackResilience #StrengthThroughStruggle #LegacyMakers
Four people interlock arms in a strong chain, forming a square over cardboard signs, one of which reads “Black Power” in bold red and black letters.
Juneteenth marks the delayed arrival of freedom. It’s a day of celebration—and of reckoning.
Black freedom is not just history. It’s a right still being fought for.
#Juneteenth #FreedomDay #JusticeDelayed #BlackResilience
Today we observe Juneteenth, honoring June 19, 1865—the day when freedom finally arrived for enslaved people in Texas, marking the true end of slavery in America.
#Celebration #freedom
#HappyJuneteenth2025 #Juneteenth #blackresilience
I'm loving my soft season.
Made lavender simple syrup. Been making my own creamers. Because I can.
#BlackJoy
#BlackResilience
#BlackPeace
#BlackLove
I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept. – Angela Davis
#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackResilience
You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas. – Shirley Chisholm
#BHM #BlackResilience
Jack Holley, a trailblazing Slocum, TX entrepreneur, survived the 1910 massacre, forged ahead, and kept his family legacy thriving strong.
#BusinessTitan #BlackResilience #SlocumMassacre #FamilyLegacy #BlackHistoryMonth
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots. – Marcus Garvey
#BHM #BlackResilience
I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept. – Angela Davis
#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackResilience
You don’t make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas. – Shirley Chisholm
#BHM #BlackResilience
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots. – Marcus Garvey
#BHM #BlackResilience
Just saw “Nickel Boys.” What an amazing experience! #RaMellRoss understood the assignment. It was beautifully shot; the creative use of POV…just bold. It is a meditation on #blackresilience and #blackjoy
🚨🚨Recruiting African American young adults for a paid study that is sponsored by NIH. Please share and see if you qualify. #BlackResilience redcap.iths.org/surveys/?s=9...
So very proud of @CameronWhitten and glad to have his voice shining a light on systemic injustice while making a tangible difference in Portland. #BLM #BlackResilience ...
