Both African American and Native, Yonasda draws from the deep healing, artistry, and sense of community indigenous to both heritages.
Most recently her mother’s words and Spirit have helped Yonasda navigate her way through as she battles lung cancer.
Yonasda is a talented poet and musical artist who came of age with the Hip Hop generation, informed by the legacy of struggle which birthed her at the height of the America Indian Movement.
She is of the most principled of human beings…impeccable with both her words and commitment to Black and Indigenous liberation. Her word is bond and righteousness is more important than money. She is a devoted friend and mother, without sacrificing the essence of her being.
@queenyonasda is a divine Black woman.
#BlackWomenAreDivine
Offered by Melina Abdullah @docmellymel
Graphic by Megan Castillo @megann.jade
Black Lives Matter – California and each of the state’s eight chapters condemn the passage by the state legislature and signing into law by Governor Gavin Newsom of the unconstitutional and undemocratic bill AB 715 and its weak companion legislation, SB 48.
The United States government cornered her, framed her, caged her, made her a fugitive, then
named her a terrorist…their insidious lies woven from the same thread used to hunt Mama Harriet, to sever Nat Turner’s head and place on a stake, to rape our grandmothers, and to lynch
our grandfathers.
The occupation of Washington, DC by militarized troops at the behest of a racist, fascist Trump regime is the full-on declaration of war on Black people in America. While some “Black faces in high places” are complicit, becoming proxies for the colonizer, it is ultimately the power of the people that will defeat the oppressor. In DC, this is the long-held work of the #FreeDC movement and Black Washingtonians who have always resisted, never submitting to their own oppression.
