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Sweet Herbal Honey Apothecary
Honeycomb BiPOC Digital Archive
Bees of the Indigo Ancestral Sanctuary
Sweet Herbs Herbal
Online Shop
Sweet Cause Donation Fund
The Legacy Bearers
Dreamers-in-Residence
Ase' O community Arts & Wellness Education Program
Asé me SOUL
Elder Faith Ringgold
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• Mixed media sculptor • performance artist • children's author • storyteller • feminist
Earth (Re)welcome
October 8, 1930
Harlem, New York, United States
Works
Tar Beach
Who’s Afraid of Aunt Jemima
Echoes of Harlem
Flag story quilt
For the Woman’s House
Jo Baker's Birthday
Street Story
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Elder Anita Baker
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• Vocalist • Songwriter • Performer
Earth Re(welcome)
January 26, 1958, Toledo, Ohio
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Songs
Rapture
Sweet Love
Fairy Tales
Giving You the Best That I Got
Angel
No One In the World
Same Ole Love
Just Because
You Bring Me Joy
Lead Me into Love
Ancestor Alvin Ailey ​
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• Dancer • Songwriter • Company Director • Activist
Earth Re(welcome)
January 5, 1931
Rogers, TX
Earth Return
December 1, 1989
New York, NY
Founder of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
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Known Masterpiece:
Revelations (Performance)
Ancestor Octavia Butler
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​• Starseed ​• Writer​ • Author ​• Visionary
Earth (Re)welcome:
June 22, 1947
Pasadena, CA, United States
Home Return:
February 24, 2006
Lake Forest Park, WA
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Books:
Kindred
Parable of the Sower
Parable of the Talents
Wild Seed
Xenogenesis Series
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Ancestor Miles Davis​
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​• Trumpeter ​• Composer ​• Bandleader
Earth (Re)welcome:
May 26, 1926
Alton, IL
Home Return:
September 28, 1991
Santa Monica, CA
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Albums:
Kind of Blue
Birth of the Cool Tutu
In a Silent Way
Sketches of Pain
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Elder Sonia Sanchez​
• Poet • Activist • Author • Educator
Earth (Re)welcome:
September 9, 1934
Birmingham, AL
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Books:
Kindred
​ Shake Loose My Skin
Morning Haiku
Homegirls & Handgrenades
Does your house have Lions?
Birth of the Cool Tutu
In a Silent Way
Sketches of Pain
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Ancestor Marsha P. Johnson​
• LGBTQ & AIDS rights activist • Pioneer • Movement Shaker • Drag Queen
Earth (Re)welcome
August 24, 1945
Elizabeth, NY
Home Return
July 6, 1992
New York City, NY
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Known For
Stonewall Riots
Star: Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries
Gay Rights Liberation Movement
Hot Peaches
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Ancestor John Lewis
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• Civil + Human rights leader • Congressman • Author • Freedom Rider
Earth (Re)welcome
February 21, 1940
Pike Country Alabama
Home Return
July 17, 2020, Atlanta, Ga
Work
“Big Six" civil rights leaders in the 1960s
Co-led 1963 March on Washington
Civil Rights Act in 1964
Voting Rights Act in 1965
Representative of Georgia’s 5th congressional district in 1987
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On March 7, 1965, March from Selma to Montgomery Co leader. On this day, around 600 civil rights marchers walked 54 miles to the state Capitol to fight against racial injustice. They walked to commemorate the death of ancestor Jimmie Lee Jackson who was wrongfully shot on Feb.18th by a state trooper while trying to protect his mother and grandfather during a peaceful civil rights demonstration.
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Books
March 1-3
Across the Bridge
Walking the Wind
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Documentary
Good Trouble
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Ancestor Marguerite "Maya Angelou" Johnson
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• author • poet • inspirational speaker • activist
Earth (Re)welcome
April 4, 1928
St. Louis, MO
Home Return
May 28, 2014
Winston-Salem, NC-
Books
I know why the Bird Caged Sings
And still, I Rise
Phenomenal Woman
The Heart of a Woman
On the pulse of Morning
Letter to my daughter
A Brave and Startling Truth
Woman work
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Elder Nikki Giovanni
• Author • Poet • Commentor • Activist • Educator • Children's Book Author
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Earth (Re)welcome
June 7, 1943
Knoxville, TN​
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Books
Love Poems
Rosa
Black feeling, Black talk, Black judgment
A library
Hip Hop speaks to children: a celebration of poetry with a beat
I am loved
The Sun is so Quiet
Spin a Soft Black Song
Ancestor Marcus Garvey
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• Political & Pan-Africanist Leader • Publisher • Journalist • Writer
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Earth (Re)welcome
August 17, 1887
Saint Ann’s Bay, Jamaica
Home Return
June 10, 1940
West Kensington, London
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Books
The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey
The Tragedy of White Injustice
- Major figure during the Harlem Renaissance
- Founder of the (U.N.I.A) Universal Negro Improvement Association, a political leader
Ancestor Toni Morrison
• writer • educator • author • activist
Earth (Re)welcome
February 18, 1931, Lorain, OH
Home Return
August 5, 2019, New York, NY
Books
Beloved
The Bluest Eye
Sula
Paradise
Ancestor El-Hajj Malik El-Shabaz
aka Malcolm X
• minister • advocator • civil rights leader • human rights activist
Earth (Re)welcome
May 19, 1925
Omaha, Ne
Home Return
February 21, 1965
New York, NY
Books
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Ballot or Bullets
Speaks
Movies
Spike Lee’s Malcolm X
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- Advocated for education, liberation and equality
- Founder of the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU)
- Supporter of both Black Nationalism + Pan-Africanism
Ancestor James Baldwin
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• Play-writer • Activist • Author • Human Rights
Earth (Re)welcome
August 2,1924
New York City
Home Return
December 1, 1987
Saint Paul de Vance, France
Books
Notes of a Native Son
No Name in the Streets
If Beale Street Could Talk
Elder Gloria ‘Bell Hooks’ Watkins
• author • professor • feminist •social activist
Earth (Re)welcome
September 25, 1952
Hopkinsville, KY
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Books
All about love
Feminism is for EVERYBODY
We real cool
Feminist theory
The Bluest Eye
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
Communion
When angels speak of love
The will to change
Ain't I a woman
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Ancestor Ida B. Wells
• journalist • educator • abolitionist • feminist •
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Earth (Re)welcome
July 16, 1862
Holly Spring, Mississippi
Home Return
March 25, 1931
Chicago, Illinois
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Known For
- Co-Founder of the Nation Assocation for the Advancement of Colored
- Early leader in Civil Rights movement
Books
The Red Record
Crusade for Justice
Mob Rule in New Orleans
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As a journalist in the South, ancestor Ida wrote about issues of race and politics. while in Memphis, she was a teacher in a segregated public school that led her to become a vocal critic speaking on the condition of blacks only schools in Memphis.
In 1892, using the column in Memphis Free Speech, her along with three others, Tom Moss, Calvin McDowell and Will Stewart launched their anti-lynching campaign. she later became the co-owner of the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight.
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Ancestor Alferdo Darrington "Dr. Sebi" Bowman
• Herbalist • Naturalist • Pathologist
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Earth (Re)welcome
November 26, 1933
Honduras​
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Home Return
August 6, 2016
La Ceiba
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Known For
Natural healing methods
Dr. Sebi's Cell Food
Health Management and Disease prevention
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Ermias “Nipsey Hussle” Asghedom
• community activist • entrepreneur • rapper
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Earth Grown
August 15, 1985- March 31, 2019
Los Angeles, California
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Community work:
Vector90
Destination Crenshaw
Dr. Sebi documentary (Nike Canon finished)
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Ancestor Eartha Kitt
• singer • actress
Earth Welcome
January 17, 1927
North, South Carolina, United States
Home Return
December 25, 2008
Weston, Connecticut, United States
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Songs
C'est si bon
Santa Baby
Movies
Batman
Emperor's New Groove
Boomerang
Holes
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Broadway
New Faces of 1952
The Wild Party
Nine
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Elder Claudette Colvin
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• activist civil rights pioneer unsung hero NAACP youth council member • retired nurse
Earth Welcome
September 5, 1939
Montgomery, AL
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Known For
She was arrested at the
age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowed, segregated bus.
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Janet Mock
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•Writer • Feminist & Trans Rights Activist • Producer
• Director
Earth (Re)welcome
March 10, 1983
Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S
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Books:
Redefining Realness
Surpassing Certainty
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Directed & Written Shows
POSE on FX
Ancestor Edward “Duke” Ellington
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• Composer • Pianist • Songwriter
Earth (Re)welcome
April 29, 1899
Washington D.C
Home Return
May 24, 1974,
New York, NY
Songs
Cotton Tail
It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain’t Got that Swing
All of Me
Collaboration with John Coltrane:
Little Brown Book
In a Sentimental Mood
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Ancestor Ernest “Ernie” Barnes
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• Painter/Visual Artist • Professional football player • Actor • Author
Earth (Re)welcome
July 15, 1938
Durham, NC
Home return
April 27, 2009
Los Angeles, CA
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Work
Sugar Shack
Slow Dance
The Bench
The Beauty of the Ghetto
Growth through limits
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Ancestor Eugene Jacques Bullard
• First Black Combat Aviator • Proud Father • Boxer •Businessowner •Unsung Hero
Earth (Re)welcome
October 9, 1895
Columbus, GA
Home return
October 12, 1961
New York City
- The First Black Military Pilot-earning wings in combat aviation.
Nickname
Black Swallow of Death
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Yasiin “Most Def” Bey
• Hip Hop artist • Songwriter • Actor
Earth (Re)welcome
December 11, 1973
Brooklyn, New York, NY
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Albums
Black on Both Sides
The New Danger
Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star
The Ecstatic
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Movies
Brown Sugar
The Italian Job
The Chappelle Show
Carmen: A Hip Hopera
Cadillac Records
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- started his career in the rap group Urban Thermo Dynamics alongside his siblings
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Ancestor Eunice "Nina Simone" Kathleen Waymon
• Singer • Songwriter • Pianist • Civil Rights activist
Earth (Re)welcome
February 21, 1933
Tryon, NC
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Home Return
April 21, 2003
Carry-le-Rouet, France
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Compositions
Four Women
Mississippi Goddam
Blackbird
Blues for Mama
Feeling Good
I Put a Spell on You
To be Young, Gifted and Black
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Genres
Folk
Gospel
Classic
Blues & Jazz
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Documentary: What Happened, Miss Simone?
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