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Did you know Sesame Street was originally created for black and brown inner city kids?
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If the child on the left was old enough to pick cotton and the child on the right was old enough to attend Klan rallies, then today's children are old enough to learn about both of these and how they've led us to where we are today.
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On this day in 1959, 69 black boys were padlocked in their dormitory at school and it was then set on fire.
21 burnt to death while 48 managed to escape.
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On this day in 1955, Claudette Colvin,15, was arrested for refusing to give her seat to a white woman on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
She was arrested 9months before Rosa Parks, but NAACP didn't want her to represent their organization because she was 15 and pregnant.
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Imagine being so racist you can't even enjoy an iconic bop
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On this day in 1960, Ruby Bridges became the first African-American to attend a white elementary school in the South.
A visual reminder of what she faced every day.
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In 1959, 69 black boys were padlocked in their dormitory at school and it was then set on fire.
21 burnt to death while 48 managed to escape.
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Slavery was Legal.
Colonialism was Legal.
Jim Crow was Legal.
Apartheid was Legal.
Legality is a matter of Power, NOT Justice.
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On this day in 1916, Ota Benga, an African native who suffered inhumane treatment by being kept in a zoo, committed suicide.
He had been kidnapped in 1904 from Congo, and taken to America and exhibited at the Bronx Zoo with monkeys.
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Did you know Sesame Street was originally created for black and brown inner city kids?
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32 years ago today, Latasha Harlins,15, was fatally shot by a Korean shop owner, Soon Ja Du, over a bottle of orange juice, it became a major spark for the 1992 Los Angeles Riots.
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At 16, Yvette Stevens joined the Black Panther Party. She was responsible selling the Black Panther newspaper & helping start the free breakfast program for children.
You might know her by another name: CHAKA KHAN!
Happy 70th Birthday to Grammy Award winning singer Chaka Khan!
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Inventions that would not exist without Black Women.
—A THREAD—
Valerie Thomas, NASA physicist, invented 3D Movies
In 1977, she began to develop the illusion transmitter, the 1st mechanism that allowed images to be viewed in 3D using concave mirrors & rays of light.
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“Soooo you mean to tell me that someone down your ancestry line survived being chained to other human bodies for several months in the bottom of a disease-infested ship during the Middle Passage, lost their language, customs and traditions, picked up the English language as best…
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On this day in 1969, activist and chairman of the Black Panther Party Fred Hampton, was assassinated by Chicago police and the FBI at just 21 years old.
William O'Neal, an FBI informant, infiltrated the Black Panthers and set up Fred Hampton for $300.
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black women unbothered by the police: a photo series
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There are atleast over a million africans at the bottom of the atlantic oceans.
These were not Americans or Brazilians, etc they were yoruba, fulani, Igbos, Mandika men and women who were thrown overboard by european slave traders.
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On this day in 1965, Muslim minister and human rights activist, Malcolm X was assasinated. Gone, but not forgotten.
Rest In Power!
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“To be African American is to be African without any memory and American without any privilege.” —James Baldwin
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Louis Armstrong playing for his wife Lucille, in front of the Sphinx, Egypt, 1961.
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Michael Jackson in the studio with his cousin Stevie Wonder, 1975.
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Clara B. Williams college professors did not allow her inside the classroom because she was Black. But that didn’t stop her. She took notes from the hallway–standing up! She eventually graduated at the age of 51 and lived to 108 years old and saw her 3 sons become doctors.
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In 1959, police were called to a segregated library when a Black 9-year-old boy trying to check out books refused to leave, after being told the library was not for Black people.
The boy, Ronald McNair, went on to became an astronaut. The library is also now named after him.
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If the child on the left was old enough to pick cotton and the child on the right was old enough to attend Klan rallies, then today's children are old enough to learn about both of these and how they've led us to where we are today.
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Happy 93rd birthday to the legend James Earl Jones.
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Happy 83rd birthday to Claudette Colvin!
She refused to move to the back of a bus 9 months before Rosa Parks, the NAACP did not want to use her to represent them because she was 15 & pregnant.
Other women who refused to give up their seats before Rosa Parks
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Louis Armstrong playing for his wife Lucille, in front of the Sphinx, Egypt, 1961.
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Yasuke was the world’s first Black samurai.
When a 6-foot-tall African slave landed in Japan, he stuck out like a sore thumb. People lost all modesty and nearly caused a stampede trying to get a closer look. Such a sight was so foreign in Kyoto.
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Congo is silently going through a silent genocide. Millions of people are being killed so that the western world can benefit from its natural resources.
More than 60% of the world’s cobalt reserves are found in Congo, used in the production of smartphones.
Western countries are…
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“To be African American is to be African without any memory and American without any privilege.” —James Baldwin
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The original arrest warrant for Carolyn Bryant Donham, the woman who accused 14-year old Emmett Till, was recently found in the basement of a Mississippi courthouse.
Emmett’s relatives want authorities to finally arrest her.
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Happy 66th birthday to Doctor and Engineer Mae Jemison! She was the first black woman in space.
She flew aboard the space shuttle Endeavour in 1992, working on experiments including bone cell research.
Dr. Mae Carol Jemison is a physician and retired astronaut. After her…
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One in every four cowboys was believed to be a Black man released from slavery despite the stories told in popular books and movies although the most famous cowboys of the old west were white.
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Congo is silently going through a silent genocide. Millions of people are being killed so that the western world can benefit from its natural resources.
More than 60% of the world’s cobalt reserves are found in Congo, used in the production of smartphones.
Western countries are…
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A sundown or sunset town was a town, city, or neighborhood in the US that excluded non-whites after dark.
The term sundown came from the signs that were posted stating that people of color had to leave the town by sundown.
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Self-taught, child prodigy piano player, Sugar Chile Robinson.
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At 16, Yvette Stevens joined the Black Panther Party. She was responsible selling the Black Panther newspaper & helping start the free breakfast program for children.
You might know her by another name: CHAKA KHAN!
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe is credited as the Godmother of Rock ‘N’ Roll. Before Elvis, Johnny Cash or Little Richard, there was Sister Tharpe- A Black woman who forged her own sound in a male dominated industry. She does not get the credit she deserves.
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On this day in 1913, Harriet Tubman died. The woman who escaped slavery then fought and freed thousands of slaves.
"I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves." —Harriet Tubman
Rest in Power.
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Africa is portrayed as a continent without history before slavery and colonialism. African History isn't known by many people compared to the history of Europe, Americas, and Asia.
Some of the world's great civilisations such as Mali flourished in Africa.
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On February 12th 1946, Isaac Woodard, WW2 veteran, hours after being honorably discharged, was attacked by South Carolina police while still in uniform when taking the bus home & left permanently BLIND
The officers were acquitted by an all white jury
#BlackHistoryMonth
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The lady circled in the photo was Lucy Higgs Nichols. She was born into slavery in Tennessee, but during the Civil War she managed to escape and found her way to 23rd Indiana Infantry Regiment which was encamped nearby.
She stayed with the regiment and worked as a nurse…
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In memory of those who chose the sea.. —The "Igbo Landing" story —
In an act of mass resistance against slavery, a group of slaves revolted, took control of the slave ship grounded it on an island & rather than submit to slavery, proceeded to march into water & drown.
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Remembering Chadwick Bozeman on what would have been his 47th birthday, today.
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On this day in 1959, 69 black boys were padlocked in their dormitory at school and it was then set on fire.
21 burnt to death while 48 managed to escape.
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Did you know Cornrows were used to help slaves escape slavery?
Slaves used cornrows to transfer and create maps to leave plantations.
It is most documented in Colombia where Benkos Bioho, came up with the idea to have women create maps & deliver messages through their cornrows.
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Bobby Hutton was one of the original member of the Black Panther Party.
After being bombed with tear gas and trapped in a burning basement, he came out shirtless to prove he was unarmed and the police immediately shot him 12 times and he died
He was only 17 years. A THREAD!
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Wilt Chamberlain at the funeral of Martin Luther King Jr in 1968.
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On this day in 1960, four black college students staged a sit-in at a whites-only lunch counter at Woolworth's in Greensboro, NC.
They sparked a national movement across the country. Instructions were simple: sit quietly and wait to be served.
#BlackHistoryMonth
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Singer, songwriter, producer, actress and Icon Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter turns 42 today. Happy Birthday, Beyoncé!
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Venus Williams's father schools white journalist on how to interview a 14-year-old Black girl (1995)
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Isaac Woodard, WWII veteran, hours after being honorably discharged, was attacked by South Carolina police while still in uniform when taking the bus home & left permanently BLIND
The officers were acquitted by an all white jury
#VeteransDay2022
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Do you hate all white people?
Malcolm X:
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Happy birthday to activist and chairman of the Black Panther Party Fred Hampton.
He was assassinated by Chicago police and the FBI at just 21 years old.
William O'Neal, an FBI informant, infiltrated the Black Panthers and set up Fred Hampton for $300.
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"I do not want to miss a good chance of getting us a slice of this magnificent African cake." —Leopold II of Belgium
Before Hitler killed 6 million Jews.…. Leopold Il of Belgium killed over 10 million Africans in Congo and amputated the arms of countless others.
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“To be African American is to be African without any memory and American without any privilege.” —James Baldwin
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Over 75 Years Ago, One of the Best Dance Routines Ever Was Filmed, Unrehearsed on the First Take, No Cuts.
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Lonnie Johnson, NASA engineer, invented the Super Soaker. He made your childhood hot summers fun.
He turns 72 today. Happy Birthday!
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Happy birthday to one of the greatest comedians to ever do it. He would’ve been 66 today.
Rest in Power Bernie Mac!
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On this day in 1965, Muslim minister and human rights activist, Malcolm X, was assassinated.
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Wilt Chamberlain at the funeral of Martin Luther King Jr in 1968.
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So who taught a young Jack Daniel how to distill what would become the world’s best-selling whiskey?
—Nathan "Nearest" Green, an enslaved Black master distiller, taught distilling techniques to Jack Daniel, founder of the Jack Daniel Tennessee whiskey.
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when someone tells you that
segregation was “a long time ago”, remember Ruby is still alive.
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James Hemings, brother to Sally Hemings was the first American to train as a chef in France. He was enslaved by Thomas Jefferson at 8.
The Chef de cuisine is the reason macaroni and cheese made it to America.
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Did you know Sesame Street was originally created for black and brown inner city kids?
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On this day in 1916, Ota Benga, an African native who suffered inhumane treatment by being kept in a zoo, committed suicide.
He had been kidnapped in 1904 from Congo, and taken to America and exhibited at the Bronx Zoo with monkeys.
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The last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade, Cudjo Kazoola Lewis (1931). He was among 110 enslaved Africans aboard the Clotilda.
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In Louisiana, black women were put in cells with male prisoners and some became pregnant.
All children born in the penitentiary to blacks were property of the state.
At 10 years, they would be auctioned off. The proceeds were used to fund schools for white children.
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At 16, Yvette Stevens joined the Black Panther Party. She was responsible selling the Black Panther newspaper & helping start the free breakfast program for children.
You might know her by another name: CHAKA KHAN!
Happy 71st Birthday to Grammy Award winning singer Chaka Khan!
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On this day in 1929, George Stinney Jr., was born.
He was the youngest person executed in the US in the 20th century. He was so small they had to stack books on the electric chair.
Due to no evidence, his conviction was vacated 70 years after his execution!
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To those who served and loved the country that did not love them back.
Happy
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Clara B. Williams college professors did not allow her inside the classroom because she was Black.
But that didn’t stop her. She took notes from the hallway–standing up! She eventually graduated at the age of 51 and lived to 108 years old and saw her 3 sons become doctors.
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This is Charles & Willa Bruce. In 1912 they bought prime beachfront land in Manhattan Beach, LA County and built a Black resort community. In 1924 the county took it and refused to pay its value. In 2021, worth $72 million, it was returned to their descendents by Senate Bill 796.…
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On this day in 1951, Henrietta Lacks died.
Her cells were taken without her knowledge in 1951 (HeLa cells) and became one of the most important tools in medicine. They became vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, in vitro fertilization & more.
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On this day in 1925, Muslim minister and human rights activist, Malcolm X was born. Gone, but not forgotten.
Rest in Power.
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The Tempations (gold jackets), The Miracles (red jackets), Stevie Wonder (blue jacket), Smokey Robinson (black Jacket), Martha and the Vandellas (lavender dresses), and The Supremes (black dresses) - 1965
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The Battle of Bamber Bridge, 1943.
Racist US military police attacked black US troops on British soil.
US military authorities demanded the town’s pubs impose a colour bar, the local landlords responded with signs that read “Black Troops Only” which pissed them off.
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A picture of Trayvon Martin at space camp. He posthumously received an aviation honorary degree.
Today would've been his 28th Birthday.
#BlackHistoryMonth
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On this day in 1921, The Tulsa Race Massacre happened in the affluent black community of Greenwood in Tulsa known as the Black Wall Street.
White supremacists killed more than 300 African Americans. They looted and burned to ground black homes and businesses.
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Mahatma Gandhi the Racist. While living in South Africa, Mahatma Gandhi described black Africans as “savage,” “raw” and living a life of indolence and nakedness.
•He routinely expressed "disdain for Africans," and he also campaigned relentlessly to prove to the British rulers…
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In Louisiana, black women were put in cells with male prisoners and some became pregnant.
All children born in the penitentiary to blacks were property of the state.
At 10 years, they would be auctioned off. The proceeds were used to fund schools for white children.
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Easter morning, Southside, Chicago, Illinois, April 1941.
The only one of the five boys that’s identified is the tall, hatless teenager in the middle, named Spencer Lee Readus, Jr., who was 14 when the photo was taken. Spencer Lee went on to serve in the U.S. Army during World…
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“The white man will try to satisfy us with symbolic victories rather than economic equity and real justice” — Malcolm X
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First Black girl to attend an all white high school in the US—Dorothy Counts—being jeered and taunted by her white peers.
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Lonnie Johnson, NASA engineer, invented the Super Soaker. He made your childhood hot summers fun.
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Cecil Williams drinking from a "Whites Only" water fountain in 1956.
He was an avid photographer of civil rights injustice and an early pioneer to hold up a mirror to discrimination, segregation and inequality.
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100 years ago today, during
#ElectionDay
in 1920, the single bloodiest day in modern America political history happened, The Ocoee Massacre.
A black man attempted to vote & the Ku Klux Klan responded with rampage that led to the exile/death of every black person that lived there
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On this day in 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, met for the first time, while attending a Senate debate on the Civil Rights Act.
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Over 75 Years Ago, One of the Best Dance Routines Ever Was Filmed, Unrehearsed on the First Take, No Cuts.
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Happy Birthday to Emmett Till. He would've been 82 years old today.
At just 14, two white men kidnapped and brutally murdered him through mutilation for 'whistling' at a white woman.
decades later, Carolyn Bryant admitted to lying that Emmett Till made a pass at her.
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Did you know the desire to escape slavery, was once classified as a mental illness called Drapetomania in 1851.
Black people were considered mentally ill for refusing to live in bondage.
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11 years ago today, at only 17, an unarmed Trayvon Martin was shot dead by George Zimmerman, fueling a movement.
#BlackLivesMatter
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