I'm FINALLY posting some photos of my friend, Tonya's sister. She shared these with me MONTHS ago, but better late than never.
Really cute coils and curls, don't you think?
A good sistah's traditionals - working hard in ICU this day.
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Gwen, now sisterloc'd, but natural for 45 years :o)
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Melinda, 3 months sisterloc'd
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10 years sisterloc'd
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Sisterlocks Originator Dr. Joanne Cornwell
Dr. Cornwell, Dr. Sharita and Seestah Imahkus Nzinga Okofo chatting between their presentations at the Shrine this past Saturday.
My first braid-out in several months.
I'm liking the waves. It didn't take as much time as I thought because I braided it while damp (not soppin' wet), so I was able to use far fewer spongeless sponge rollers than when I don't braid first. I've been a little nervous about the rollers since discovering that weak loc base a while back.
I just might stick with the old braid-out for a while.
DL
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[Originally posted March 24, 2008 at 4:46 PM]
I teared when I first watched the film A Girl Like Me, directed by young Kiri Davis, 3 years ago. Below is a 7 minute clip.
This disturbing film documents the fact that the pivotal Kenneth and Mamie Clark experimental findings, are as valid today as they were in the 1930's. Sadly, our children still prefer the white doll to the Black doll.
Used to argue several Brown vs. Board of Education law suits in support of integrated schools, the actual data set is rarely if ever examined.In fact, the Clark's data actually revealed that more children in integrated northern schools preferred and would rather play with the white doll than children in segregated southern schools.
I'd bet you didn't know that.
Moreover, the Clarks found that after Black children entered segregated schools, they approved more highly of the Black dolls. Translation: during the formative years, Black children feel better about themselves when educated in a nurturing environment of adults and children who look like them.
One of the actual data sets:
Children at northern, integrated schools vs. Children at southern, segregated schools
Prefer to play with white doll: 72% vs. 62%
White doll is "nice" 68% vs. 52%
Black doll is "bad" 71% vs. 49%
None of the numbers above are good, but the trend is undeniable. What can I say except, 'Don't believe the hype.'
Support African-centered Saturday programs like the one my son has attended at Nsoromma School.
Additional web resources are available to you through the Black Homeschoolers Network and, here in Atlanta, AYA Educational Institute.
Recommended reading: Developmental Psychology of the Black Child and other books by Dr. Amos Wilson.
Finally, there is a wonderful article about sisterlocks, our daughters, self esteem and locking children's hair in Vol. 2, No. 2. of the Sisterlocks Journal. Giovonnie Samuels, the sisterlocked, Nickelodeon child-star is on the cover.
Dr. JoAnne Cornwell the innovator of sisterlocks has an academic appointment in the Department of Africana Studies at San Diego State University.)My dad asked the question..."So when you wash those things, they don't come out?
A sister wtih traditional locs from New Jersey that I encountered in the airport in Houston
I pretended not to hear him. We were on a tour bus at our family reunion and the engine was rather loud. He was sitting behind me.
A brother who was on our flight from Atlanta (Nice lats!)
But then he leaned forward and, rather loudly, continued, "I said, how do you wash those things?"
A sisterlocked mom and her daughter who just happened to be on the escalator ahead of us at Hartsfield-Jackson airport (Mom has been SL'd 8 years)
I turn around so he could hear me. "With shampoo. Like the way you wash your hair," I said in my most "uh-duh" -like voice.
A mom with traditional locs and her cuties atop Stone Mountain
That was it. I guess, since he last saw me this past spring, someone must have explained to him that I have locs.
;o)
In April, we attended the Sankofa Spirit Fundraiser at the APEX Museum.
Ancient Kemetic Timeline at the APEX Museum in Honor of Dr. Asa Hilliard III
Sankofa Spirit's Passport 2 Adventure is an educational travel program designed for youth to discover the cultural connections between Africa and the African Diaspora.
After completion of the program students will then qualify to participate in the study tour the following summer. This past year the children studied the rich history of Africans in the country of Brazil. The children who completed the program this year, will be on their way to Brazil within the next few weeks!
Mike, my mom and Brian Kofi watching a film of life in Bahia, Brazil
Delicious Brazilian food was served.
Children and Women do Capoeira, too!
The entertainment highlights of the evening were the Capoeira demonstrations.
In the fall a new and returning students will study the history of Africans in Mexico. They will travel to Mexico in July 2010.
Passport 2 Adventure's five year travel plan includes: Ghana, West Africa (2008), Brazil (2009), Mexico (2010), Barbados (2011) and France (2012).
In 2004 Sankofa Spirit created its film series, Movies with a Mission to counter the myths and negative images of people of African descent so often promoted by Hollywood. Movies with a Mission are free monthly films from and about Africa and the African Diaspora that seek to inform and inspire dialogue.
I started volunteering with this series a few months ago and invite you to join us on the first Thursday of the month! Free movies from across the Diaspora are shown on the first Thursday of the month at 6pm at the APEX Museum.
