ME AND THE BEES GOING TO WHOLE FOODS

I never watch the television show SHARK TANK (A reality TV show where ordinary people compete and present their business ideas to billionaires who decide to invest in their business or not) 

I was just too lazy to change the television channel. But I just saw this little black girl named Mikaila who went on SHARK TANK a year or two ago when she was just 11 years old in order to get investor money for a lemonade company she started.

As of last year, her lemonade is being sold nationwide at WHOLE FOODS MARKETS.
I'm gonna run and not walk to the store. I am gonna get some ME AND THE BEES FLAXSEED LEMONADE. I don't care how much it cost. I'm getting at least one bottle.

You know what the coolest thing is about Mikaila's story? She made her grandmother's flaxseed lemonade recipe for a children's business competition. What a way to get children interested in business, understanding profit and loss!



From her website:

Let our founder, Mikaila, explain the origin of Me & the Bees Lemonade:

When I was just four, my family encouraged me to make a product for a Children's business competition (the Acton Children’s Business Fair) and Austin Lemonade Day. So I put on my thinking cap. I thought about some ideas. While I was thinking, two big events happened.

I got stung by a bee. Twice.

Then my Great Granny Helen, who lives in Cameron, South Carolina, sent my family a 1940's cookbook, which included her special recipe for Flaxseed Lemonade.

I didn't enjoy the bee stings at all. They scared me. But then something strange happened. I became fascinated with bees. I learned all about what they do for me and our ecosystem. So then I thought, what if I make something that helps honeybees and uses my Great Granny Helen's recipe?

That's how Me & the Bees Lemonade was born. It comes from my Great Granny Helen's flaxseed recipe and my new love for bees. So that's why we sweeten it with local honey. And today my little idea continues to grow.

It was a sweet success from the start. Year-after-year, Mikaila, sells-out of her Me & the Bees Lemonade at youth entrepreneurial events while donating a percentage of the profits from the sale of her lemonade to local and international organizations fighting hard to save the honeybees. That is why she touts: Buy a Bottle…Save a Bee.

Now at age 12, when not at her lemonade stand telling all the digestive benefits of flaxseed, you can find Mikaila leading workshops on how to save the honeybees, and participating in social entrepreneurship panels. Mikaila launched her own Facebook page, where visitors can ‘Like’ interesting facts about bees, honey and Me & the Bees Lemonade.

Today, the award-winning Me & the Bees Lemonade is buzzing off the shelves of Whole Foods Market, the world’s leader in natural and organic foods, and available at a growing number of restaurants, food trailers and natural food delivery companies.

Mikaila Ulmer: A social entrepreneur, bee ambassador, educator and student.

SEE MORE ABOUT MIKAILA AND WHERE TO BUYhttp://meandthebees.com/

READ ABOUT HER WHOLE FOODS DEAL 
http://www.colorlines.com/articles/11-year-old-entrepreneur-signs-deal-sell-her-lemonade-whole-foods-stores

WHAT MY WOMANISM LOOKS LIKE by TINA B MARIE

A POEM

THAT

EDUCATES

AND

GIVES LOVE AND LIGHT

TO SISTERS


A definition of womanism is here at
"WOMANISM IS TO FEMINISM as PURPLE IS TO LAVENDER" -Alice Walker
http://thankherforsurviving.blogspot.com/2015/05/womanism-is-to-feminism-as-purple-is-to.html


LISTEN!

BALLERINA PRECIOUS ADAMS IS ALL BLACK GIRL MAGIC

PRECIOUS ADAMS

Birthplace
Canton, Michigan, USA

Training

Academy of Russian Classical Ballet, Michigan; National Ballet School of Canada; Academy Princess Grace Monte Carlo, Monaco and Bolshoi Ballet Academy, Moscow

English National Ballet

Joined 2014


Career highlight

Double prize winner at the Prix de Lausanne 2014, Young Arts Finalist and Silver Medal



Role would love to dance

Juliet and Roland Petit’s Carmen


Follow Precious on Instagram

http://www.ballet.org.uk/the-company/dancers/precious-adams/


Adams Performance From 2014

BLACK GIRL MAGIC IN CHINA

KEISHA GOES TO CHINA

AND

BLACK GIRL MAGIC
IS
INTERNATIONAL

(like we always knew it was)

CHECK OUT THE VIDEO AT THE LINKIT'S TOO CUTE

https://www.facebook.com/keisha.credit/posts/1345979022088021

"MINERVA'S LILLIES" GIVES US SISTERHOOD, MOTHERHOOD, AND BLACK GIRL MAGIC

Feeling Rebloggy

"Set to a Swahili Tarab song, Minerva’s Lilies is a short film by two sisters Amirah and Wafa Tajdin. The film is a ‘personal portrait of sisterhood, magic and mothers’. Produced by Casimir Film, it was directed by Amirah Tajdin and produced by Amirah’s sister Wafa Tajdin. The sisters own and run Seven Thirty Films, an African based indie production company founded in Nairobi in 2011. The pair currently work in Africa and the Middle East, working on on their first feature film, Hawa Hawaii, set in Mombasa, Kenya."

From: http://africandigitalart.com/2016/02/a-look-at-minervas-lilies-short-film-on-sisterhood/


WATCH HERE

TO ALL MY WEIRD BLACK GIRLS

Feeling Rebloggy

To the girls who dance when there is no music. The girls who see pretty flowers and think they would be perfect in her ‘fro. The girls who stay in their beds for days watching Sci-Fi shows on Netflix. The girls who go to midnight premieres of Marvel movies, because that is the only way to see them properly. The girls who actually did not find Courage the Cowardly Dog creepy as a child. The girls who own box sets of Avatar: The Last Airbenderand Naruto. The girls who still belt the lyrics of “Bring Me to Life” by Evanescence. The girls who still listen to Avenged Sevenfold and Jimmy Eat World. The girls who are unapologetically themselves. Also known as the ‘weird’ black girls — this is for you.

Society has an idealized perception of a black person. They feed into the stereotypes and think that everyday black people are loud, obnoxious, “ghetto,” etc. If someone does not fit this description, they are an outsider. This also holds truth within the black community on a smaller scale. Some black people think that all black people should act alike, and if one person strays away from the way we are “supposed” to act, they are abnormal. The ideal black woman, for instance, is not one that engages in cosplay. She does not LARP (live action role play). She is supposed to listen to the same music, care about the same things, and engage in the same activities as her counterparts. If she doesn’t, she is judged and not considered “normal.”

~by Blavity

Read More and Revel In It
http://blavity.com/to-all-my-weird-black-girls/

A LITTLE MAGIC ON DISPLAY

BLACK GIRL MAGIC, THAT IS

HAPPY WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH

BLACK GIRL MAGIC ROCKS

AND DON'T YOU FORGET IT

Feeling Rebloggy

"Black girl magic," when used properly, is a way for Black women to celebrate the special sauce we put on just about anything. It's our way of loving each other up while we're going about the business of staying sane, creative, fly and faithful.It's a salve for the thousands of puncture wounds that sloppy, resentful and racist police keep making in our collective skin. It's our way of comforting one another when we lose a job, a partner, a child.

Black girl magic is also convenient shorthand for the following common statements:

"No, you can't shame us with stupid memes that accuse us of tricking Black men with shiny weaves and heavy contouring along our noses."

~Colorlines

No, you should never forget we are black and it's not a compliment when you do. And should you forget, one of us will create a video called "Formation" and hurt your widdle feelings more than a little bit.

#BlackGirlMagicRocks

READ MOREhttp://www.colorlines.com/articles/real-problem-blackgirlmagic-backlash-youre-missing-point 


Regarding Elle Magazine Critic of the Subject?
The black female author at "Elle" was being way too damn literal. She needs to call the surgeon and have her put that sense of humor and appreciation for life back in.



























A FINALLY BLACK GIRL MAGIC MOMMY MOMENT FOR YOU AT THE LINK:



http://theproblackgirl.tumblr.com/post/139397450229





Melissa Harris Perry said, “I like Black Girl Magic, which I just sort of think of as a way of designating the joyous or happy parts of the experience of black womanhood and black girlhood, even in the context of inequality.”






~NYMAG


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