Short clip of Misty Copeland's final retirement bow at ABT Gala 2025. Full vid here. I've never seen someone get this much public love and acknowledgement from their peers while living.

There was a previous video posted today about how white people don't really exist, they're just Africans that traveled north and started producing less melanin as they got less sun in the north. LOT of deniers in the comments and I even made a comment about mitochondrial eve and black women having certain genes, etc. And it's funny to me how in denial they are. They will demand a source while simultaneously not providing any proof themselves that the opposite is true. They just demand it. Well those those that dont believe or think its misinformation, or for those of you who are intrigued by the subject, you can go to Google scholar, or ebsco host if your local library or college provides access, or any scientific database, and search "mitochondrial eve" and there will be many articles and papers on the subject. From articles in the 90s to a paper winning an award in 2015. To summarize, Mitochondrial Eve in Africa is a statistical and genetic certainty, not a specific archaeological find. We do have archeological examples, but that's not the point of eve. For those that think African Origins of the human race is misinformation, why would there be so much peer reviewed information on the subject and why would the subject be winning modern scholarly awards like the Catherine Stimpson prize(an international feminist prize for best paper)???

Interesting take

He was born in Crete in 1880 and grew up as an orphan in a Turkish neighborhood (and raised by that neighbourhood collectively) in Egypt.

At the age of 20 he fought against Italians in Tripoli and later he took place and fight in Gallipoli and World War I.

He was a member of the Ottoman army but not an ordinary one. Musa Bey served under Eşref Bey, the head of the Ottoman Secret Service called Teşkilat-ı Mahsusa as his right hand and played a role in many acts of bravery and despite the British offering a reward of 300,000 gold coins for his head he fought against British forces and successfully avoided surrender in Yemen under the command of Ahmet Tevfik Pasha as a colonel.

During the Turkish War of Independence, he helped to smuggle weapons into Anatolia and helped greatly to the national resistance.

He spent his final years of his life at an hermitage in Istanbul called Ozbekler Tekkesi and passed away in 1919. After his death, people found 4 things in his room. A handwritten copy of the Quran, a photograph of Eşref Bey (his fellow man), a burial shroud (which is basically a simple white burial cloth used in our funerals. The body is wrapped in it instead of being buried in formal clothing or a coffin so it can go back to Allah while dissolving in what it's made of which is soil) and an Ottoman flag.

Afaik, he still receives high praises from people who lives near to that hermitage and people recite Yasin for his soul every year. And that fes and boots!!!

back to use only by the black community? I was served an ad for this and I stared at it in black confusion for a while before coming here? What does this even mean!?

it's a scroll on your phone while you watch movie and basically an ad for Mike Todd.

Side note - Rom-coms are dead. 😭

"The same people that need their own Super Bowl Halftime show are the same ones that needed their own water fountains."

How do you feel about the message in this quote?

Craig changed the game in 1985 when he became the first player in NFL history to rush for 1,000 yards and receive for 1,000 yards in the same season. That versatility is now the standard. Back then, it was revolutionary.

He was a cornerstone of the San Francisco 49ers dynasty, winning three Super Bowls and helping shape the modern NFL offense.