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Friday, 24 December 2010

postcard from beijing...

Beijing, China: Visitors look at a tour pamphlet in the Forbidden CityFotoCredit: Petar Kujundzic/Reuters

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African HipHop

"Where were you the day hiphop died? Is it too early to mourn or too late to ride?"

BEAUTIFUL BLACK JOHN

The Blogger With The Biggest Community Chest in TX - Monopoly's Got Nuthin On Him. Click on the Face.

BLOG RULE

Pick A Name, Any Name Anonymi. PLEASE Identify ThySelf

LEADERS OF ZIMBABWE'S 1ST CHIMURENGA; NEHANDA, KAGUVI & CHAMINUKA

jacked from neoformix.com

Dancing on the Moon

SUMBODI BROK AMURRYKA, WHO, WHO, WHO?

"TOWARDS AN EVER CLOSER UNION OF EUROPEAN NATIONS"

SIZE MATTERS?

Kaone Kario

Diamond from Botswana

LIYA KEBEDE

Ethiopian Empress

MS LAURYN

THANDISWA MAZWAI

Lead Singer of Bongo Maffin (SA)

Arminatta

'IF I COULD TEACH THE WORLD TO LIVE IN PERFECT HARMONY'

UN World Peace Pic, Words from Bone Thugs

H.I.M HAILE SELASSIE I

FROM LONDON TO HARARE

5 140 M, 8 272 km Location: Leicester Square, Lon, England. (Copyleft Kon Womyn)

When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. Then he placed his right hand on me and said: "Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last. I am the Living One; I was dead, and behold I am alive for ever and ever! And I hold the keys of death and Hades. Rev 1 v 17 - 18

The Black Madonna

THOMAS MALTHUS

copyleft DV.net

ACHTUNG

ANTI IRAQ WAR ART

By Mike Vallen, 2003

Mother Theresa

Iman

RAIMI GBADAMOSI, VISUAL ARTIST & SCHOLAR

"I believe in a world without borders"

"..if they desist, know well that Allah is Ever-Forgiving, Most Compassionate"

MALE & FEMALE CHROMOSOMES

There are about 20-30 human intersex states known.

Jarmila Kratochvílová, Czech Rep & Caster Semenya, RSA

The current women 800m world record holder Jarmila Kratochvílová, no questions of identity asked, but she looks just as if not more 'masculine' yet Semenya is also just as feminine as she.

STANISLLAWA WALASIEWICZ (STELLA WALSH), POLAND

Winner of the 100m race at the 1932 Olympics. She was forced to return her medals after the IOC found out that she a hermaphrodite.

MARIA JOSE MARTINEZ PATINO, SPAIN

The woman who battled to prove she was a woman.

SANTHI SOUNDARARJAN, INDIA

Winner of a Silver Medal at the 2006 Asian Games who 'failed' a gender test

MARIA MUTOLA, MOZAMBIQUE

African Champion with nine international titles to her name. When she first broke onto the international scene, rumours started doing the rounds she was a man and not a woman, but there was no substance to these ridiculous claims.

SERENA WILLIAMS, USA

Tennis Champ whose name has spun the rumour mills because of her masculine appearance...Nothing but jealousy.

MARION JONES, USA

Is this a thing of beauty? One blogger suggested from the neck down Semenya and Jones look the same. Could their capabilities in strength also be somewhat similar regardless of chromosomes & sans the performance enhancers Jones took?

DERARTU TULU, ETHIOPIA

First Black African to win an Olympic Medal in Barcelona, 1992. Nawal El-Mutawakel of Morrocco was the the first African to win an Olympic Medal in 1984.

ALICE COACHMAN, USA

First Black Woman to ever compete AND win Gold at the Olympics, Berlin Games, 1936

CASTER SEMENYA WINNER OF WOMEN'S 800M IAAF GAMES 2009

FROM PRESIDENT-ELECT TO PRESIDENT

THE JOKER - THE ORIGINAL

This was originally done by an art student, Firas Khateeb before B.O was inaugerated. It was a part of a series of experimental images not as expressive of political opinion.

How To Blow Up Two Heads At Once (Ladies)

By Yinka Shonibare, 2006

OLAUDAH EQUIANO

THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA

By Yinka Shonibare

BLACKFACE / MINSTREL FROM BAMBOOZLED

Now, this cuts DEEP!

HEATH LEDGER AS THE JOKER

FADED HIGH HOPES

OBAMA JOKER POSTER

SHEPARD FAIREY'S FAMOUS HOPE IMAGE

JAMES LILLIS "JOKE"

Nigerian Hair

SHUKU

Style originating from Yoruba culture symbolizing the woven baskets marketwomen carry on their heads

LA VIDA HAIR SALON

Arusha, Tanzania

Chris Rock

The Good Hair Show

Jamelia in India

100% Human Hair indeed!

Shingi Shoniwa, Lead Singer of The Noisettes

On hair: "I keep it funky with an afro on stage so I can rock out. No way I'd have a lace-front weave like Beyonce's."

NNENA AGBA

ANTM Cycle 6 repping for Nigeria

SaaRtje Baartman

MAGGIE DELVEAUX

The Congolese immigrant who set herself alight in protest to Belgium's racism

THIERRY HENRY

Plight of the Dispossessed People

Chagos Islanders protesting outside UK Houses of Parliament '08

chagos flag

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