🔥 Summertime CHI 🔥
@Marley__Monroe
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Just a Beautiful, Loved, & Blessed Africana Studies Scholar (Minor Degree) ✊🏽 and Historical Musicologist with a Bachelor of Science Degree 📜
Illinois, USA
Joined April 2010
Before February ends & even after it does, please check out my documentary on “The Candy Lady” and what her presence means to our communities! #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth #SupportBlackFilm #BlackHistory Heart of the Neighborhood: The Candy Lady https://t.co/L68Cu4sBoU via @YouTube
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The Aunties - Mimosas & Midday Moves (Southern Soul Cookout Version) https://t.co/40oRSsRD1k via @YouTube
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On this day in 2005, Civil Rights Activist, Rosa Parks, passed away.
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Bootz & Buckeey will reunite again on #LoveAndHipHop Miami on BET 👀 Remember their falling out in 2007 on 'Flavor Of Love: Charm School'? 😮
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New Edition, Boyz II Men and Toni Braxton announce they’re going on tour in 2026:
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Lorraine Hansberry, author of the acclaimed play, "A Raisin in the Sun," was the first black woman to write a play performed on Broadway in 1959.
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Good Friday morning beautiful people 🙌🏾🙌🏾❤️❤️❤️🎶🎶 @beingkarmin @derrold @berry_deep @MusicUnite1 @Marley__Monroe @QueenMalarcher @tafkadak @BKthegreatone @Igottafigh64510 @neosouldude
Some May Not Know: Camp Lo had Originally Recorded “FEELIN IT” Before Jay-Z got a Hold Of The Record.. Here’s The Demo Version❗️ Camp Lo Ft. Mecca & Ski Beatz- “Feelin It” (1996)
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Method Man joins his daughter Chey for a TikTok dance to the viral Stephanie Mills challenge.
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Anthony Jackson played the iconic bassline on The O’Jays’ song “For the Love of Money”. He was only 20 years old when he recorded it, and the bassline was so influential that he received a co-writing credit for the track. (R.I.P.) 🌹 #LongLiveTheCulture ✊🏾
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Happy 89th Birthday to Political activist, author, and co-founder of the Black Panther Party, Bobby Seale.
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This is Ronald McNair, who died during the space shuttle Challenger explosion. In 1959, he was denied checking out books in a segregated South Carolina Library. He later became one of the first Black NASA astronauts in history. Today, that same library was named in his honor.
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In 2003, Jack Nicholson won a Critics Choice Award but said he was too drunk to give a speech so he asked Robin Williams to give the funniest acceptance speech for him 😅
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53 YEARS AGO on October 21, 1972, "My Ding-a-Ling" by Chuck Berry reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. https://t.co/ajFTFZO8oG
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Kevin McCall breaks down in tears after revealing he relies on an EBT card, despite having written songs for Chris Brown—who recently made $90 million from his tour 😳
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Don Cornelius understood the importance of both representation and documentation. Through #SoulTrain, he didn’t just showcase our culture, he preserved it in more ways than one. His legacy is a reminder of the power we, the people, hold & how vital our presence is to the
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