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Yaya DaCosta Instagram - A bone to pick..
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Querido Brazil,
Tenho tanto orgulho de ser descendente de um brasileiro.
É outra casa minha.
Mas às vezes não me sinto em casa… por causa do racismo.
O mundo inteiro sofre… mas faz sentido começar a conversa entre nossa próprias comunidades.
Vamos conversar?
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Com todo amor 💛💚🇧🇷

Yaya DaCosta Instagram - I love massages.
I love waterfalls.
I love myself.

Thank you, @maatispagh for creating a safe and luxurious space to be pampered in nature.
This is Ghana, West Africa, y’all.

Yaya DaCosta Instagram - 💧
Real life is exquisite.
And for those for whom it’s not, may it be so.
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EDIT:
*Such a blessing to go to places where Earth can still be experienced the way the Most High intended.
This is pure water flowing straight from a glacier in New Zealand. The kind of place your plastic water bottles claim they got it from.
It was my first time doing this, so I looked cautious, but yes I drank it! Again and again.
This first sip was full of wonder, and it’s the wonder at our planet’s beauty that I am sharing.
Thanks for your concern, but it was the BEST water I’ve EVER tasted.

Yaya DaCosta Instagram - “Keep your ideas to yourself until they’re fully developed.”
-Jerry Hicks
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🤫 soon come

Yaya DaCosta Instagram - 1. There was so much gorgeous art on the walls of the gallery for @blackbeautyroster ‘s NY Fashion Week event. Black hair is art, indeed!
2. A little step and repeat in my little @normakamali
3. slinky dress link up
4. The Icon: IMAN @the_real_iman
5. @ursulastephen created the hair looks for my first ever Essence magazine shoot as a model. Bumping into each other and reminiscing about the magic we created that day on set, both early in our blessed careers, was such a sweet moment.
6. The throwback lewk in question!
7. time/space travel slinky dress link up with @zendaya
8. Women who joyfully celebrate other women are my favorite. Instantaneous mutual appreciation of inner and outer beauty is goddess behavior.
9. The one and only, the master of all things hair, and one of my besties @chiomanvhair
10. With the beautifully fierce women of @lorealgroupe
11. The color palette. The lighting. The hair. The makeup. The styling. The timing. The subject. The observer. The experience. All of these are Art.
12. Met so many beautiful souls.
13. Pattern.
14. Future pulling.
15. The bussdown for natural girlies has arrived. Thank you, @evebyboz !! 💁🏾‍♀️

Yaya DaCosta Instagram - I do be missing my city.

Yaya DaCosta Instagram - 🇿🇦🫶🏾
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👗 @nylaurent
👑 @wrapsnraps
👟 @toryburch
🪶 Mexico

Yaya DaCosta Instagram - Thank you to the Creative Arts Emmy’s for having me!
Presenting alongside @sagarradia was so much fun!
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(shoutout to @princesstagram #MayaRudolph and #KirstenWiig, my comedic sheroes, who were sitting right in front of me! I wanted to fangirl so bad, but kept it very professional. very poised. very cutesy. I think 🤪)

Yaya DaCosta Instagram - Friend: “You look like you’re wearing a neck brace. Where did you get that thing?”
Me: “You can’t get it. You need a prescription.”
@alekseiarcher
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Thanks for having us, @mptf !!

Yaya DaCosta Instagram - 🗽
Thank you, New York City,
for a love-filled visit.
I needed every hug
and was inspired every minute.

Yaya DaCosta Instagram - Even Deputy District Attorney Andrea Freeman adorns her crown with @wrapsnraps outside of the courtroom.
And who knows… maybe one day, inside the courtroom, too.
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Black Friday Sale ends tonight at midnight!
wrapsnraps.com

Yaya DaCosta Instagram - @yayadacosta absolutely understood the #InStyle30 assignment to “come dressed in your birthday best.” ✨

Yaya DaCosta Instagram - After the art, it’s the after party!!!!
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Happy Carnival #BritishVirginIslands !!!

Yaya DaCosta Instagram - A couple of days before the turn of the gregorian calendar new year, I visited Black Star Square.
I felt the energy of two of my heroes, Marcus Garvey and Kwame Nkrumah.
I climbed the arch, waved the flag, walked around the square, and a vision came to me…
I imagined holding an event in that vast space, communing and building with descendants of the continent from all over… reigniting the passion of those great leaders.

The next day by the pool, I shared this experience with @badassboz and she excitedly told me that the new year’s extravaganza she curated had expanded to include a dinner and a huge new year’s celebration— with performances and fireworks— in the iconic setting of… Black Star Square!!
It. Was. EPIC.

There were so many synchronicities and instantaneous manifestations on that trip.

With everything going on in the world, I am overwhelmed, sometimes to tears, by the gratitude I feel for my privilege. For the luxury of being able to dream, to envision, to travel, and to co-create my own life, as well as the new world, for future generations, inshallah.

With clarity of sight and hearts full of intention, we walked straight from the club to the ocean… paid homage to the ancestors that had been forced to traverse those waters, received Yemaya’s blessing, watched the Sun rise, and offered the deepest prayers of our hearts to Spirit.

The words in this video are by Alana Fairchild, from “Rumi Oracle: An Invitation Into the Heart of the Divine”

Happy 2024!!!!!

Yaya DaCosta Instagram - Yaya DaCosta, Bridgetown 2007

Rising Star

#blackwomen #model #actress #host #onthecusp #fashion #portrait #editorial #Bridgetown #barbados #womenshistorymonth #africanhair #blackhair #braids #cornrows #earrings #salute

Yaya DaCosta Instagram - is MOOR.

The Moors were a predominantly Muslim people originating in North Africa (modern day Algeria, Morocco, Mali, Mauritania, Tunisia, Niger) and the Iberian Peninsula in the Middle Ages. Between 711 C.E. and 1492 C.E. Moors ruled over Iberia, which consists of modern-day Spain and Portugal. Our introduction of new scientific techniques and tools to Europe accelerated progress in Moorish Spain and made it flourish in the areas of Astronomy, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Geography and Philosophy.
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Channelled message:

Trust in the changing nature of life.
The reality that you perceive today is but an expression of the energy needed to cultivate the transformation of Earth at this time.
Do not cling to notions of “good” and “bad”.
The next phase will always come.
Take a step back and see the circumstances of this lifetime as but a brief moment in the grand lifetime of humanity.
The power scales shall shift again and again.
We have conquered the people who have conquered us.
See the humans around you as reflections and reminders of every possible experience within you;
of every feeling that is also possible within you;
of every action - positive or negative- that is also a possibility for you.
Contribute with compassion to humanity’s ascension to a place where its goal is no longer power, but Love. Inshallah.
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📸: @thaisaquinophotography
💇🏾‍♀️: @chiomanvhair
🎵: Khalifa Ould Eide, Dimi Mint Abba “Hassaniya Love Poem”
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#AncestryDecolonized
#BlackFuturism
#IndigenousFuturism

Yaya DaCosta Instagram - is MBUNDU.
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The Mbundu, traditionally a matrilineal Bantu people, have lived in present-day Angola since the Middle Ages.
We were once head of “The Ambundu Kingdom” called “Ngola” (meaning iron), from which the name “Angola” was derived.
The most well-known Mbundu figure in history was the powerful ruler Queen Nzinga. There are many oral traditions passed down about her polyandry, as well as her advanced military and negotiation tactics that staved off Portuguese invaders and kept them under control through a relationship of trade (ivory, rubber, wax, and humans).
The tradition of resistance permeated Angolan culture so much that, even under Portuguese rule by the 1800s, many Ambundu communities remained sovereign, until the last of them, was defeated by the Portuguese in 1917.
The spirit of revolt stayed with many descendants of this tribe as well, which could be evidenced by the existence of “Quilombos” (a Kimbundu word meaning “war camp”) in Brazil (another previous Portuguese colony), where self-freed people overthrew their captors and set up self-sufficient, independent communities.
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Channeled message:

You have done much much fighting on your feet.
It is time for buoyancy.
For wading in the waters of the creation of the New World.
There are those whose spears, guns, arrows and bombs must speak for them.
There are those whose sharp tongues pierce the minds of the masses from stages larger than we could have ever dreamt possible.
And still,
there are those whose contributions come from a quieter place,
but whose influence is no less effective.
You, my dear, have been tasked with using the gifts you have access to.
In that receptivity, that creativity, that reflection, that mysticism, that magic, that art,
you serve in accordance with the Divine’s plan.
You must do your work from there.
We have been many kinds of warriors.
Now,
Warriors of Peace…
This is your time.
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📸: @thaisaquinophotography
💇🏾‍♀️: @chiomanvhair
🎵: Bonga, “Mona Ki Ngi Xica” (meaning “The Child I Leave Behind” in Kimbundu)
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#AncestryDecolonized
#BlackFuturism
#IndigenousFuturism
#BlackHistoryMonth
#BlackHerstoryMonth
#BlackFutureMonth

Yaya DaCosta Instagram - 2023 December Highlights

WELCOME TO GHANA!!!

Thank you, Modjinah, @travelmo.worryless for
blessing this trip with such ease and organization. You are excellent at what you do, and an absolute sweetheart to boot!

Thank you, Abdul @theruler02 for treating me like family and making sure my first AfroFuture @afrofuture experience was spectacular in so many ways.

Thank you, Queen Bozoma @badassboz , for being the wisest, loudest, sexiest voice calling us back home. As an ambassador to the Diaspora, you exemplify radiance, realness, and regality, while reminding others of their own. Seeing you in action at the live, Ghana edition of The Badass Workshop @thebadassworkshop was truly a sight to behold!
And thank you for the incredible experiences you curated for your circle of friends. You are a visionary.

As these events continue to grow,
as more of us gain the courage to take flight (because remember, “The People Could Fly”),
as we deepen our remembrance and self love… may we nurture the global family, meeting each other with cultural sensitivity, mutual respect, understanding and Love.
Each time we share wisdom, dreams, food, dance… we heal colonial wounds.
Each time we gather in the name of transatlantic unity, we relearn the forgotten ways of our ancestors.
I love y’all deep.

Thank you, Ghana, for everything.

MEDASSE.

Yaya DaCosta Instagram - Thank you, @essence for celebrating with me!
Wraps N’ Raps is now LIVE!
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📸: @tibalism

Yaya DaCosta Instagram - That’s it. That’s the secret.

Yaya DaCosta Instagram - Thank you, New Zealand. ❄️
#BelovedEarth

Yaya DaCosta Instagram - December 2023 Highlight
Accra Night Life!!!
Amapiano and Afrobeats rightfully ruled the sound waves, but we also got sprinkles from around the Diaspora (Brazilian Samba, the Electric Slide, and The Voice herself, included!)

#TeamNoSleep

@afrofuture
@badassboz
@theajzone
@thejessiewoo
@chefahki
@chiomanvhair
@the_mrsmason
@classy.tracey
@coodierock
@dtelson31
@nicoleariparker
@boriskodjoe
@kennyburns
@chakabars
@taiye.entirely
@jamieleaa_

Yaya DaCosta Instagram - She should have turned 61 today.
I still pinch myself that I had the incredible honor of being the first actress to play the greatest Voice of our time.
Thank you, Whitney Houston, for every song, every blessing, every lewk, every lesson…
We love you. We miss you. We honor you.
Happy Heavenly Birthday, Nippy!!! 🎂🤍

Yaya DaCosta Instagram - Thank you, Nikki Giovanni, Ibaye, for energizing the revolution and the return of primordial feminine power, divinity and beauty… for masterfully undressing Life with your words… for your Legendary Love of Us. 🤍
(June 7, 1943 – December 9, 2024)

Yaya DaCosta Instagram - What a way to end Summer Sizzle BVI!
Sailing the Caribbean Sea to the breathtaking island of Virgin Gorda… exploring the wonders of Mama Nature… renewing our vows to our futures.
My ship is coming in! 🛥️ 🌊
Happy Lion’s Gate!
8/8

Yaya DaCosta - 41.1K Likes - About last night…

1. Celebrating the Golden Globes winners and nominees with our Netflix family.
2. Mingling and schmingling.
3. Started at St. Michael’s Montessori School, now we’re here. @alekseiarcher
4. Started in Chicago, now we’re here. @sophiabush
5. Love this powerhouse of a woman.
6. I will always take advantage of a good photo booth.
7. Joy as medicine.
8. I took a makeup class with @_cincodemaya last month and now I think I’m a professional. lol
9. I say a little prayer for those fighting for their right to exist. I say a little prayer for the planet— Onile, Gaia, Pachamama. I say a little prayer for humanity’s past, present and future generations. A prayer for the animal kingdom, and another for our plant allies. I say a little prayer for peace. May every act of ill intent be intercepted and alchemized by Divine Order in service of New Earth. I love you.

suit: @kentegentlemen of Côte d’Ivoire
shoes & purse: @balmain
nails: @heyquisa
hair: @chiomanvhair
makeup: Eu. Moi. Yo. Me. Mimi. Watashi (wa suta 😜)

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Caption : About last night… 1. Celebrating the Golden Globes winners and nominees with our Netflix family. 2. Mingling and schmingling. 3. Started at St. Michael’s Montessori School, now we’re here. @alekseiarcher 4. Started in Chicago, now we’re here. @sophiabush 5. Love this powerhouse of a woman. 6. I will always take advantage of a good photo booth. 7. Joy as medicine. 8. I took a makeup class with @_cincodemaya last month and now I think I’m a professional. lol 9. I say a little prayer for those fighting for their right to exist. I say a little prayer for the planet— Onile, Gaia, Pachamama. I say a little prayer for humanity’s past, present and future generations. A prayer for the animal kingdom, and another for our plant allies. I say a little prayer for peace. May every act of ill intent be intercepted and alchemized by Divine Order in service of New Earth. I love you. suit: @kentegentlemen of Côte d’Ivoire shoes & purse: @balmain nails: @heyquisa hair: @chiomanvhair makeup: Eu. Moi. Yo. Me. Mimi. Watashi (wa suta 😜)
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Caption : A bone to pick.. . Querido Brazil, Tenho tanto orgulho de ser descendente de um brasileiro. É outra casa minha. Mas às vezes não me sinto em casa… por causa do racismo. O mundo inteiro sofre… mas faz sentido começar a conversa entre nossa próprias comunidades. Vamos conversar? … Com todo amor 💛💚🇧🇷
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Yaya DaCosta - 17.3K Likes - Essence Magazine’s Black Women in Hollywood annual awards ceremony felt like a powerful vortex of sisterhood. So grateful.

1. @sterlingpics
2. @nikondon
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5. @sterlingpics
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7. @cynthiaerivo ‘s speech was a gift.
8. @teyanataylor gave a beautiful toast
9. The Artist said it 💦
10. @chioma (hair) and @meccadickerson (makeup) getting me right and indulging my shenanigans
11. Pisces new moon facts @zodi_am
12. In gorgeous company in @essence ‘s room full of beautiful, exquisitely melanated artists and changemakers. So honored!
13. “Walk!” they demanded 🤣
14. Thank you, Laverne for showing me the nostalgic, epic 1983 jet magazine cover that my look reminded you of.
15. The Queen iman

Life is short. Wear the crown.

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Caption : Essence Magazine’s Black Women in Hollywood annual awards ceremony felt like a powerful vortex of sisterhood. So grateful. 1. @sterlingpics 2. @nikondon 3. “” 4. “” 5. @sterlingpics 6. “” 7. @cynthiaerivo ‘s speech was a gift. 8. @teyanataylor gave a beautiful toast 9. The Artist said it 💦 10. @chioma (hair) and @meccadickerson (makeup) getting me right and indulging my shenanigans 11. Pisces new moon facts @zodi_am 12. In gorgeous company in @essence ‘s room full of beautiful, exquisitely melanated artists and changemakers. So honored! 13. “Walk!” they demanded 🤣 14. Thank you, Laverne for showing me the nostalgic, epic 1983 jet magazine cover that my look reminded you of. 15. The Queen iman Life is short. Wear the crown.
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Yaya DaCosta - 13.8K Likes - @summersizzlebvi put me up at the Long Bay Beach Resort and I was in bliss…
The perfect meeting of nature and luxury.
Thank you, @longbaybvi 🧘🏾‍♀️🏊🏽‍♀️🌊

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Caption : @summersizzlebvi put me up at the Long Bay Beach Resort and I was in bliss… The perfect meeting of nature and luxury. Thank you, @longbaybvi 🧘🏾‍♀️🏊🏽‍♀️🌊
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