The Cake Lady

@got_cake • 74,826 subscribers

LCSW. INTP. Raconteur. Afro-Culturologist. Butter and sugar pays all the bills, but my mouth is a liability. I'm Black first, and 🇻🇮🇵🇷 immediately after.

Shorts

Sensitive content

They called it suicide! Sadie Mae Washington was 30 years old. A nurse who delivered over 300 babies. Killed for her brother's debt. The system called it suicide and closed the case in 6 hours. Bumpy Johnson saw a cover-up and made sure Harlem never forgot her name. Harlem, 1948. Mount Olivet Baptist Church. Sunday afternoon. Over 400 people packed into wooden pews. The organ playing his eyes on the sparrow. Reverend Adam Clayton Powell Jr. mid eulogy. Then Bumpy Johnson stood up from the second row. The room went silent. Bumpy walked toward the casket, slow, deliberate, each footstep echoing against the walls. The organ stopped, the preacher stopped. 400 people held their breath. Bumpy reached the casket, looked down at nurse Sadie May Washington, the peaceful expression, the white lace dress, the thick makeup covering her face and neck. Everyone else had seen a woman who died too young. Bumpy saw a cover up. He leaned closer, studied her neck, then reached down and touched the powder on her throat. When he pulled his hand back, his fingers were covered in thick theatrical makeup. He looked at the funeral director standing nervously near the wall. "Why is there so much makeup on her neck?" The man went pale, started sweating. Bumpy pushed back Sadie's collar, and what 400 people saw next made women scream and men turn away. Rope burns, deep, brutal, purple, and black, circling her throat like a necklace of violence. This wasn't a heart attack. This was murder. And what Bumpy did in the next 96 hours killed three men, made six NYPD officers resign, and changed how Harlem dealt with police corruption forever.

743,508 views

Sensitive content

Not bbl shaming, but it's nice to see this natural body type trending again 😍.

8,051,189 views

The unbridled sexuality of the Chura dance (also known as Baikoko) from the coastal region of Tanzania 🇹🇿 is often compared to twerking in the West, but it has far more symbolism and relevance than just gyrating. This ancient dance, inspired by the frog, is taught to girls by older women as part of their rites of passage into womanhood. It reportedly helps to loosen the pelvic area and prepare the womb for an easy an successful childbearing and delivery.

5,293,845 views

Buddy probably felt like he was being slapped by an octopus 😭

478,358 views

Sometimes you don't even have to know how to dance...😍

1,164,807 views

5-year-old Londyn from Texas pulls up as a barrel racer! She and her horse Monkey had an impressive 18-second run at Jacksonville’s Black Rodeo USA You go girl! This is culture.

1,390,260 views

I'm no better than a man.

137,949 views

This art goes crazy!🤩 Would you hang it on your wall?

230,068 views

Have you ever been to Senegal?? 🇸🇳

829,414 views

They say New York is not a real place. That means Harlem is definitely only a figment of our brightest imagination.

467,190 views

🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

837,969 views

The "Ring Shout" is recognized as one of the oldest surviving African performance traditions, deeply rooted in the coastal Georgia and South Carolina lowcountry, including Savannah, where enslaved people maintained their Gullah/Geechee culture. It is a religious, dancelike movement performed in a counter-clockwise circle. Developed by enslaved Africans in the 18th and 19th centuries who merged West African traditions with American experiences, The ring shout evolved by blending African spiritual traditions with American Christian religious practices, such as spirituals. It combines singing, call-and-response, and a rhythmic, shuffling, "shouting" motion. The ring shout is still practiced today as part of the Gullah heritage in the region.

27,628 views

DJ missed but her points did not! 😍

250,742 views

Rise and Capoeira! 🇧🇷 Enslaved Africans(Angola) brought capoeira to Brazil in the 16th century. The slaves disguised their fighting techniques as folk dancing, using rhythms, call-and-response singing, and instruments to distract onlookers. Historically, sometimes fighters with blades strapped to their ankles or held between their toes—would swing their legs high in attack, perform aerial somersaults, and pass within a hairsbreadth of each other's knees, head, groin, or stomach. This is culture! 🇧🇷

312,912 views

Mind your elders

217,626 views

Back in the day, thick girls were discouraged from practicing ballet. So beautiful to now see Black ballerinas with body. 💃🏾: Freje Jernisse

434,000 views

This is culture! 🇧🇷

217,832 views

Black women. Period. 🇻🇮🇻🇮🇻🇮

20,759 views

Lord, they done got a new linedance, and I still haven't learned the last one 😭

148,887 views

Gullah call it perlo, we call it pelau. A flavorful one pot dish usually made with chicken. We are no longer boycotting oxtail so...let's make oxtail pelau 😀 Chef's tip: Cook the oxtail until tender then add all of the other ingredients. Smash✨️ or trash 🗑?

66,810 views

Videos

LIVE

1.2k

Anya Rossi

sweetdream.ai

SweetDream.ai•Sponsored•Livecam

Streaming Now

Watch Anya Live

Anya is streaming live right now! Join her private show and enjoy exclusive content.

HD live stream

Exclusive private shows

1.2k viewers online

Current Status

Live

Private Show

Join now for exclusive access

Free preview available • Premium content

0:29

This is how it's done! 😂😍

The Cake Lady

88,703 views • 2 days ago

1:00

Your algorithm led you to this...

The Cake Lady

22,244,619 views • 1 year ago

1:00

Sensitive content

This media may contain sensitive content.

Just a small misunderstanding 😪😂

The Cake Lady

264,338 views • 9 days ago

1:01

She is so pretty 😍 I dont even know what she talking about. 😩

The Cake Lady

408,211 views • 15 days ago

0:27

No one knows us better than our esthetician 🥹

The Cake Lady

5,781,705 views • 7 months ago

1:34

Sensitive content

This media may contain sensitive content.

Men, if one single video could convince you to stop abusing women, this is it.

The Cake Lady

420,129 views • 25 days ago