Beautiful Colombian Child reciting a poem and saying how proud she is of her black skin and black blood, she is American, African, Colombian, from the coast and proud. She urges people to call her black because it's nothing to be ashamed of BUT Proud of!✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿
Never Forget, 19 year old LaVena Johnson who was found in her tent in Iraq in 2005. She had a broken nose, black eye, loose teeth, burns from a corrosive chemical on her genitals to cover evidence of rape, and a gunshot wound. The U.S. government ruled her death was a 'suicide.'
Never Forget Kendra James who was shot and killed by Portland, Oregon police on May 5th, 2003 when the car she was driving in was pulled over. Police officer Scott McCollister, who shot Kendra claimed he was unable to operate his pepper spray so he shot her instead!
Never Forget, Antwun “Ronnie” Shumpert, a 37-year-old father of five, who was shot four times by Tupelo police officer Tyler Cook (who was later transferred to the training academy) in June, 2016 after a police dog viciously attacked him, almost mutilating his testicles!
Never Forget, Kalief Browder (May 25, 1993 – June 6, 2015) who was held at the Rikers Island jail complex, without trial, for allegedly stealing a backpack, between 2010 and 2013 when his family was unable to make bail; he was in solitary confinement for two of these years!
In 1943 Black American soldiers faced off with white American Military police during WWII on British soil. Yes Black American soldiers had to fight their own white American soldiers, while in England, where they were fighting for the world. This is Because
Only our hair grows towards the sun. It defies gravitational force. "My skin absorbs the sun's ☀️ rays and my hair defies gravity. You can't tell me I'm not magical." Unknown. Black and Proud ✊🏿
In November of 1733 enslaved Africans in the Caribbean island of St John, led by an Akan princess named Breffu, rebelled against their Danish captors, seized control of the island & established an Akan Kingdom in the Caribbean, in one of longest slave revolts. The rebellion was
This is how Haitians freed themselves. No pleading, no marching, no begging, no signing petitions, no holding up signs, no chanting, no sit-ins, just action!
"White people want to disassociate from all the cruelty of their ancestors apart from the part that they reap off the benefits of systemic racism standards set by their ancestors. "
"Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that check, nobody putting art in their albums any more." André Benjamin (André 3000)
Carlota Lukumí, a slave woman, took up the machete in 1843 to lead a slave uprising at the Triumvirato sugar mill, Cuba. Always remember that we fought back!