GIVE US OUR LAND BACK 🪶🪶🪶

Through art, Benoit showed that Creole culture is not a hashtag; it is a way of life and a symbol of existence and remembrance 💜💚💛.

#CreoleCulture #CreoleStudies #Louisiana #BlackStudies

On this special night, we were blessed to have the late, great, multitalented artist and Lafayette native, Bryant Benoit, dedicate a special one-of-a-kind painting to Official Creole Culture (posters are available for purchase).

#CreoleCulture #Louisiana #BryantBenoit

The festivities began with the “Hands of Heritage: A Collaboration Book” honorary ceremony at the Delta Grand Theatre in Opelousas, Louisiana, sponsored by Cecilia Spice Company.

#Creole #CreoleCulture #Opelousas #Louisiana

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Through the tenacity and love of our ancestors, we stand with Martinique 🇲🇶, Guadeloupe 🇬🇵, Dominica 🇩🇲, Seychelles 🇸🇨 , Haiti 🇭🇹, and other countries and islands during International Creole Heritage Month and beyond ✊🏾🫶🏾.

#Creole #CreoleCulture #CreoleHeritageMonth

According to Lafayette Travel, Creoles in Louisiana began celebrating International Creole Heritage Month in the late 1970s & early 80s along with Saint Lucia and other places.

In addition, the UNESCO recognizes October 28 as International Creole Heritage Day.
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#Creole #CreoleCulture

Reminiscing on Creole Culture Month Tell your Creole heritage story, or somebody else will

As Creole seasonings filled the air, we could feel our ancestors' smiles surrounding the atmosphere.

We celebrate International Creole Heritage Month with the arts, cultural foodways, Zydeco dance gatherings, Creole learning tables, community boucheries, and more 💜💚💛.
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WHEW!!!

People are poor because jobs don’t pay a living wage. Not because they’re “bad with money”

Third Death in Four Weeks Rocks Bedford Hills Women’s Prison This week’s death, which incarcerated people and advocates described as a suicide, comes at a time of turmoil in the facility.

Third death in 4 weeks at Bedford Hills, NY's largest women's prison
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African Feminisms – a decolonial history: an interview with Rama Salla Dieng | ROAPE On the occasion of International Women’s Day 2026, we are reposting this interview with Senegalese scholar-activist Rama Salla Dieng about her book African Feminism: A Decolonial History (2001). In…

On the occasion of International Women’s Day 2026, we are reposting this amazing interview with Senegalese scholar-activist Rama Salla Dieng about her book African Feminism: A Decolonial History (2021).

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Genuine questions.

WHEW!!!!

Still?!?? Even NOW?!? After everything they’ve been through?!?

I always order whiskey with lemonade or pineapple and my cocktail is always $7 or under at most places.

So idk what y’all be talking about lol.

I’m a bargainer lol!

“Our neighborhood was founded by my great-grandparents over 125 years ago, and I grew up surrounded by my elders and extended family along the Mississippi River levee.”
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#journalist #louisiana #creolestudies #blackstudies #womenshistorymonth

We call her name! Honoring the work of Callie House as we explore ways to bring the political leadership of Black women to the forefront. Mary Frances Berry wrote a book about her legacy, among the first to fight for reparations in the U.S. #womenshistorymonth #blackwomen #blackstudies #blackhistory

“Our community of Wallace was established as a ‘Freetown’ community by people who self-emancipated, fought in the Civil War, and purchased land to establish their communities,” Dr. Joy Banner said.
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#journalist #louisiana #creolestudies #blackstudies #womenshistorymonth

March 9, 1892: The People’s Grocery Lynchings A white mob seized three African American business men in Memphis, Tennessee and lynched them without trial.

"This is what opened my eyes to what lynching really was. An excuse to get rid of Negroes who were acquiring wealth & property & thus keep the race terrorized & keep them down." -- Ida B. Wells after People's Grocery lynching in Memphis #tdih 1892. Read ⬇️ 🧵
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It's not widely known enough that the moment the UN formally recognized "genocide" as a phenomenon, Black Americans filed a petition charging the US with genocide against Black people. The conditions they describe have continued.

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“Jews as white people were [economically] doing better than African Americans, and that brought along a sense of paternalism, ‘of we know better than you.’

Which, of course, was resented by Black leaders.”

—Cheryl Greenberg

#BlackStudies #CivilRightsMovement

“When some Black people said we must control our own communities it didn’t mean putting white people out. It just meant we were in charge.”

#BlackStudies #BlackPower #SNCC

“Unfortunately Black Power was immediately defined by the media as being anti-white. But it started as a way to redefine how Black people felt about themselves.”

—Joyce Ladner (SNCC Member)

#BlackStudies #BlackPower #CivilRightsMovement

BOOKMARKING!

💙💙💙📝📝📝 much love!

This is important and so well researched and written.

Also highly recommend Saidiya Hartman's "Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals", esp. chapter on Gladys Bentley (Mistah Beauty…) and entire Book Two

#BHM #BlackSky

The Descendants Project is a nonprofit org committed to uplifting the stories of the River Parishes’ AA & Creole descendants of those who were enslaved, as well as demanding action against social injustices ✊🏾💜💚💛.
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Get 🫵🏾 a physical copy of 64 Parishes’ Winter Edition today 🫶🏾.

We are on pages 10-12‼️

Purchase here: 64parishes.org/magazine
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