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07Aug/15

Taji Vol4: Will Focus of KMA, Pharaonic Brand, and I Am Culture

Release Sep 7 2015 | Vol4 of Taji is full of Black Beauty & Culture from around the globe! This issue’s features are Will Focus of KMA, Pharaonic Brand, and I Am Culture  – 3 Black King owned apparel brands. Our Special Spotlights are the Master Pioneer Awards; Andia Winslow of The Fit Cycle; Li Li’s Creations Bold Fashions; Fitness Professional Clint Walker; Filmmaker Tony Clomax; and Soulful Singer Gabrielle Jackson!

Purchase your copy now at ‘Purchase Taji’!

Vol4

Purchase Taji Mag | Vol. 4

Taji Mag is a Black Beauty & Culture specialty publication highlighting the artistry of our essence.

15Jul/15
Hate and Jealousy

I See the Pattern Of Hate and Jealousy: Samuel H. Robinson

RachaelaI See the Pattern Of Hate and Jealousy by Samuel H. Robinson

I walk the streets and I see people who are not me, who want desperately to be me; people who emulate us, but are not us. Whites.   People lost in a culture which is uniquely defined by a lack of culture that is actually their own.  They carry within themselves a sickness that seemingly permeates all other fair skinned cultures.  They abhor us; berate and subjugate us.   They want nothing more than to possess everything that we are.  We live inherently as our people have lived since the tribes of our ancestors first formed under the skies of Mother Africa.

Their women inject their lips, breast and buttocks with collagen to give themselves the fuller, more attractive figure that our women are naturally born with.  They sit under the sun, under lamps, and rub themselves down with chemicals to give themselves the sun-kissed skin that our people have from birth.  They lock up their hair, decorate it with beads and jeweled accents and say that it’s a part of the hippie sub-culture; hoping all the while that we blacks will forget that the art of locking hair has its roots in North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and Ancient Egypt, along with head shaving which was done by us to show status, hair dying which was done by us with henna and yes, even wigs worn by us to protect our hair from sun damage.

How many of these things are we told wrongly by today’s society are meant as expressions of white “culture”?  Not meant for us?

Whites have adopted the raised tattoos of our African ancestors.  They’ve appropriated ear gauging, nose and lip piercing and stretching, neck stretching, and other manners of body modification which they boldly call “alternative”, “goth” or “punk”, but which were actually introduced by the ethnic peoples of North Africa; the Pedi, the San and even the Zulu.

They take our music.

They take our dance.

They take our food.

They take the clothing and artistic styles that we make unique and make them a part of the white mainstream.  They take our speech patterns and turns of phrase.  They take our very BLACKNESS.

Yet how many of these things are we told wrongly by today’s society are meant as expressions of white “culture”?  Not meant for us?

I see the pattern of hate and jealousy.  Do you see it now too?

Samuel H. Robinson | https://www.facebook.com/ADragoonMemoir

Photo: Rachael Arianna

13Jun/15
Jidenna: Classic Man

Jidenna: Classic Man *Video*

Jidenna: Classic Man. This song is extra swanky! Get into it and the amazing video, then head to one of the links below to purchase it. #SupportBlackArtists

Download “Classic Man” on iTunes: http://smarturl.it/ClassicMan
Amazon: http://smarturl.it/ClassicManAmazon
Spotify: http://smarturl.it/JidennaClassicMan
Google Play: http://smarturl.it/ClassicManGP

Twitter & Instagram: @jidenna
www.jidenna.com

Wondaland Records / Epic Records

13Jun/15
The Cox Family

Cox Family. Black Love. Black Family

The Cox Family… Take a moment to bask in the beauty of the Black Family! Genuine, beautiful moments, captured in time to be cherished forever! A beautiful example of a loving family swimming in all their natural glory. Speaking of natural, those puffs and braids are divine! They’re making sure their girls love their natural beauty 😉

The Cox Family | © NayMarie Photography | www.NayMarie.com The Cox Family The Cox Family

Photos taken by NayMarie Photography