Beverly Bond is all about black sisterhoodand, this time, she’s showing it by celebrating other phenomenal black women and girls in a new book that is set to release in fall 2017.
Bond, who is the founder of Black Girls Rock! — a mentoring organization that also hosts an annual award show, has consistently uplifted black women through her work and her new book, titled Black Girls Rock!: Celebrating the Power, Beauty and Brilliance of Black Women, aims to do the same.
“This book will affirm, elevate, and celebrate the unique narratives and rich experiences of black women and girls around the world for generations to come,” Bond said in a statement obtained by Entertainment Weekly.
Rock on, Beverly Bond!
Upon receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award at this year’s BET Awards, Samuel L. Jackson shared a touching story involving his wife and daughter.
“[They] found me passed out on the floor after I left somebody’s bachelor party,” he told the audience during his acceptance speech. “Put my ass in rehab the next day, and supported me and pushed me and give me a reason to get up and go and chase it day after day after day.”
The “Legend of Tarzan” actor, who’s been sober since 1991, has never shied away from discussing his battle with substance abuse. Before we knew him as Nick Fury, Mace Windu or even Jules Winnfield, a young Jackson faced drug and alcohol addiction while making a name for himself in the New York theater scene in the 1970s and ‘80s.
“I was a f**king drug addict and I was out of my mind a lot of the time, but I had a good reputation,” Jackson told The Guardian in an interview.
“Everyone for Biel. Justice, justice.” This was the chant repeated by the friends and family of 11 year-old Waldik Gabriel Silva Chagas, all the way to his five-foot-long casket. It was surrounded by white and yellow flowers. We could only see his face.
Waldik Gabriel Silva Chagas was killed on Sunday, June 26 by the Brazil’s Metropolitan Civil Guard (GCM).
“Every 23 minutes, a black youth is brutally murdered in Brazil. This is ethnic cleaning as State policy. We need to confront this,” Abisogun said.
The Union of Collective Pan-Africanists is also in contact with the family of Ítalo Ferreira de Jesus Siqueira, a boy who was killed by military police in early June. He was 10 years-old.
“What hurts the most is to see the lack of response from society,” said Abisogun.
When she was just 11-years-old, Tayloni Mazyck was struck by a stray bullet outside her family’s Brooklyn home, an innocent victim of gang violence.
She was left paralyzed, angry, despondent, and fearful of leaving the safety of her family’s apartment for months after the incident. Three years later, however, the young teen has graduated middle school, and she’s inspiring people with a powerful commencement speech.
Taking the stage, Mazyck’s message was one of perseverance and self-determination. “Believe that you can succeed, and you will,” she said.
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