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Rare footage of George Washington Carver at Tuskegee University in 1937. He was about 73 years old. You are looking at a man who was born enslaved, and died a renowned scientist and inventor.
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Black performers "Cakewalking" in 1904, a style of dance created by slaves in which they mocked their masters
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Handwritten recipe for "Feather Lite Pancakes" courtesy of Rosa Parks
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Cakewalking to Magnolia by Playboi Carti because why not
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“I Don’t Treat Whores Like Human Beings”: Understanding The History and Culture That Puts Black Girls at Risk
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Trayvon Martin would be 24-years-old today but he was murdered in 2012 by a violent racist. His death (and the subsequent acquittal of his murderer) galvanized many in our community to look past the surface of modern American race relations. Never forget him.
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JSYK: 10 Realities Scarier Than Any Halloween Scenario
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The Black Church: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
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The Sticky Relationship Between Evangelism, Racism, and American Schools
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2 Minute History: Explaining The Statement "Ronald Regan Flooded the Hood With Crack"
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1. Bill Cosby’s daughter Erinn accused Mike Tyson of raping her and Cosby covered it up. This came out when Tyson was convicted of raping 18-year-old Desiree Washington.
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6. On Valentines Day 1993, highly-scouted college basketball player Allen Iverson was arrested after a fight at a bowling alley, and spent four months in jail. The first black governor of Virginia, Douglas Wilder, offered him clemency and Georgetown gave him a full-ride…
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During World War 1, over 30,000 women were forcefully detained as suspected prostitutes and carriers of syphilis. In this episode of
#LetsTalkAboutSexHistory
, find out the relationship between ignorance, stigma, and stds.
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In the 90s, a rise of sex-positivity in Black music spearheaded by artists like Lil Kim mirrored a shift in oral sex practices in the black community. How and why?
A Brief History of Black Oral Sex
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when the New Years euphoria wears off at 12:07AM and you remember Donald Trump gets sworn into the presidency in 19 days
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Janet Collins, the first celebrated black ballerina, once turned down a company position that required her to paint her face and body white
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Do you know the difference between Voodoo and Hoodoo? What about Vodou and Vodoun?
Black Spirituality & Voodoo
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Over Marilyn Monroe? Get Into These Three Black Bombshells From The Mid-Twentieth Century
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11. There were 145 Attacks on black churches from 1995-1996, leading to the establishment of the National Church Arson Taskforce and the 1996 Church Arson Prevention Act. 33 percent of all arsons and bombing attacks at houses of worship from 1995 to 2000 were at black churches.
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The American Negro Ballet in 1937.
It was started by a German choreographer. Time Magazine reported:
"He found dancers [in Upper Manhattan] all too light, too sophisticated. “I want them black, black, all Negro,” said von Grona. He picked 20 of the blackest applicants."
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7. In 1992, Terry McMillan made the second largest paperback book deal of all time (at the time) making $2.64M for Waiting to Exhale, selling 3 million copies by 1995. Forest Whitaker directed the 1995 movie-adaptation.
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Stephanie St Clair was born in Martinique and initially attended school before working as a maid for a rich family. The son raped her often
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2. In 1993, the PLO and Israeli leadership signed the Oslo Accords, which was seen as the end of the Palestinian Intifada. However, in the next year alone, over 110 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces, and 38 more killed by Israeli civilians, including in the 1994 Caves of…
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On this day in 1851, Sojourner Tryth addressed the first Women's Rights convention in Akron, OH. Likely birth of "Ar'nt I A Woman" speech.
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James Baldwin on Malcolm X and Black Superiority
Agree or Disagree? 🤔
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Did you know that in addition to speaking fluent German, Donna Summer, "The Diva of Disco", was the first artist to score three consecutive
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#TheSeventies
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3. In 1990, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air not only launched Will Smith’s acting career but saved him from going broke as a result of overspending at the beginning of his rap career.
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Would you rather time travel to attend:
-A 1920s Harlem Rent Party
-A 1940s Juke Joint
-A 1970s Black Disco
-A 1990s Freaknik
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12. This clip of Gwyneth Paltrow from 1998 is believed to be the earliest public critique/outcry about Harvey Weinstein’s sexual harassment and assault, that David Letterman just breezed through.
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Everything on this page is posted and researched by a degree holding history nerd. I pride myself on accuracy! ❤️✊🏾✨
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Selma Burke's bust of FDR was the inspiration for the image on the dime (John R Sinnock denies this), for which she never received credit
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8. During the height of EGOT-winning Whoopi Goldberg’s career, her then-boyfriend Ted Danson performed a racist comedy set in blackface in 1993. Goldberg helped him write his jokes.
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A black factory worker in Nashville. (Feb 1943) Very often you see white women in the “Rosie the Riveter” factory garb but black women were employed at these places too
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10. As The Spice Girls rose to popularity in the 90s, the girl group spearheaded what we know now to be the norm of mass product endorsement and celebrity influencer marketing, Spice Girls branding on over 100 products – from video games to pizza.
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When I think of Colin Kaepernick I think of Paul Robeson
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Entertained by cakewalking slaves, some masters held "Cakewalks" where the best slave couple could win a slice of cake
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The very first Miss Black America, Saundra Williams, in 1968 Atlantic City.
Down the street from the racist Miss America Pageant (and hours after), Miss Williams was crowned at nearly 3AM in hopes that press leaving from the white event would stop by and capture the moment.
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John Berry Meachun was a former slave who ran a floating school on the Mississippi River when the state banned black education in 1847
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In the 90s, most black people believed or acted like OJ Simpson was innocent. But the support of OJ by black women in particular deserves a second look.
Black Female Support of OJ Simpson
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17. After all four officers involved in Rodney King’s police brutality trial were acquitted, Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley offered King $200K and a 4-year college education which King rejected in favor of a lawsuit that awarded him $3.8M.
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7 episodes exploring the decade of Reagan, excess, AIDS, MTV, crack, and more.
@Lexual__
will take you deeper than you've ever been before!
#LexualDoesThe80s
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24. Whitney Houston’s Grammy-winning soundtrack for The Bodyguard, featuring hits like I Will Always Love You, became the bestselling album of the entire decade of the 90s and the bestselling movie soundtrack of all time.
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JSYK: Black Mothers In Texas Are Dying At Alarming Rates
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20. When Rosa Parks was attacked and robbed by a black man named Joseph Skipper in 1994, Little Caesars Pizza owner Mike Ilitch quietly helped move the civil rights icon to a safer area.
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world famous 20th century dancer Josephine Baker, circa 1927
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Also... "I have received letters... from men which have annoyed me very much.... I ... am not looking for a husband or a sweetheart" 😂
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4. The first-ever ‘Got Milk’ campaign commercial for the California Milk Processing Board was shot by famed Bad Boys director, Michael Bay. Despite the successful campaign, milk drinking stayed on the decline.
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34. During the 1995 Source Hip Hop Awards André 3000 was booed when Outkast beat out Bone Thugs-n-Harmony for Best New Artist.
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16. Condemned for 350 years, Galileo wasn’t vindicated until 1992, when the Roman Catholic Church formally recognized that the earth does revolve around the sun.
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On this day in 1941, Emmett Till was born. He was murdered 14 years later. His murderers were tried and found not guilty in Sumner, Mississippi, a place whose slogan was "A good place to raise a boy."
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Robert Smalls was a slave when he stole a ship in the Charleston harbor freeing himself and others, and he later was elected to congress
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@HeyLynn617
I believe it’s because a lot of them got stringent cursive lessons in grade school
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We've had the wrong idea about Hennessy this whole time. It's for classy ppl, not ratchets 😂
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28. After lobbying to direct Malcolm X, Spike Lee’s film got extra funds from black celebrities like Bill Cosby, Prince, Tracy Chapman, Oprah and The Jacksons when its original $28M budget was overrun.
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WATCH: Memphis sanitation workers remember their infamous 1968 "I Am A Man" strike.
2 workers were killed by defective equipment on February 1st, + over 700 of 1300 black sanitation workers agreed to strike. This is why MLK was in Memphis at the time of his assassination.
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1973 Batgirl PSA encouraging women to report illegal gender-based wage discrimination in the workplace.
The Equal Pay Act was signed in 1963, but it wasn't until 1972 that "white-collar executive, professional and administrative jobs" were included.
#TheSeventies
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The first "dark skinned" fashion model Helen Williams in a vintage Budweiser circa 1950s
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"I don't much care who is gay or straight or married or not. I mostly notice if they are brave enough to confront bigotry." (Jasmine Guy)
#WhoSaidDat
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Despite the abuse she scraped her coins & ended up in Harlem. She dodged an abusive lover who tried to pimp her out. With a fork in his eye
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5. During the 1992 Presidential Election, Family Circle Magazine pitted Hillary Clinton and Barbara Bush’s cookie recipes against one another while their spouses, Bill Clinton and George H. W. Bush battled for the presidency.
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14. In 1994, French biscuit company St. Michel collaborated with Safari Africain to create Bamboula’s Village, a human zoo, marketing its popular, racist treat, the Bamboula chocolate biscuit.
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21. By the time Stella Liebeck sued McDonald’s in 1992 for second and third-degree burns endured from their too-hot coffee, the company had already received 700 complaints of burns. Ms. Liebeck’s $2.1 Million settlement led to calls for tort reform.
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I love reminding people how garbage Reagan was.
REAGAN DIDNT SPEAK ON AIDS UNTIL 1985 WHEN IT WAS CLEAR THAT AIDS COULD INFECT STRAIGHT PEOPLE AND NOT JUST HOMOSEXUALS
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27. Championing edgy marketing, the Playstation was released in 1995 at $299, which is roughly $605 today.
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JSYK: Why More People Will Be Going To Prison Over The Next Four Years
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13. The release of the critically acclaimed Boyz N The Hood was accompanied by two deaths and over thirty injuries at theaters in twelve states. John Singleton said movies weren’t the problem, but black families, telling Ebony, “These kids are committing acts of violence because…
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Entertained by cakewalking slaves, some masters held "Cakewalks" where the best slave couple could win a slice of cake
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9. In 1994 when Texas Governor Ann Richards and New York Governor Mario Cuomo both lost their re-elections in the Republican Revolution, they starred in this commercial for the new doritos featuring rounder edges and more seasoning.
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She got out, got back to business, and clashed with the mafia. Nearly everybody folded to the mafia except this black woman
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"It [prejudice] is such a waste. It makes you logy and half-alive. It gives you nothing. It takes away." - Dorothy Dandridge
#WhoSaidDat
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29. During the near-daily Siege of Sarajevo between 1991-1995, over 5000 were murdered. This photo of Meliha Varešanović dolled up in the middle of the siege on her way to work, despite snipers everywhere and explosions, is a famous display of defiance during the Bosnian…
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She also took out ads for black Harlemites educating them on their rights & kept up w/ incidents of police brutality. This attracted trouble
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A black woman being carried away from a 1963 Brooklyn picket demonstration over discriminatory hiring practices
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18. The release of 1992 tell-all, ‘Diana: Her True Story,’ led to a new era of gossip, contributing to 76% of Britain wanting to cut taxpayer support for The Royal Family.
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Before OnlyFans and stripping, black pioneers of burlesque entered into the industry for all types of reasons, each leaving their own unique footprint on the world of erotic dance and sex work.
A Short History of Black Burlesque
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Cakewalking to Magnolia by Playboi Carti because why not
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