Hi guys if you see this kindly retweet let’s save Eliete from cancer❤️

— the green pastures (1936) 🌾🕊️👼🏾 this film recounted various biblical stories with an all-black cast, one of the only six feature films in hollywood studio era at the time. this particular scene is part of the opening of heaven sequence.

January 5 marks Carver Day, a holiday celebrating the life & understated legacy of George Washington Carver. He was an agronomist, an innovator & an educator whose work with peanuts, soybeans & potatoes revolutionized organic agriculture in the US.

Muddy Waters Band '73. 🎶'Got My Mojo Working'

Kirk Franklin did a live recording for a new Gospel album and you know the singing was incredible! 🥹😮‍💨

If you ever heard the term piano hands or piano fingers, yeah..here is what that looks like. He was born to tickle the musical notes via those ivory keys. Amazing!

#OTD 1945, Mary McLeod Bethune, founder of Bethune-Cookman University, bought up land and established one of the few historically black beaches in New Smyrna Beach, FL during Jim Crow era.

Barzillai Lew (1743–1822) born in Groton, Massachusetts was a free Black patriot and master musician whose fife helped soundtrack the American Revolution. Over six feet tall and born into a free Black family in Massachusetts, he played at Bunker Hill and other key battles. Our

Missing Child Michael Young from the 12th District https://t.co/zDPMRhtFK8

Missing Juvenile Ameer Barber from the 12th District https://t.co/XxTdUzyci6

— young black girls playing “miss mary mack” at peabody elementary school in washington, d.c., 1974. takes me back to the innocent days of childhood. such cutie pies 👧🏾🎀💗🫧

Best video you’ll see all day: Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings performing “100 Days, 100 Nights”

Slippin' into Darkness (1971) War https://t.co/EqUZ3sklW8

Gotta Get You Home Tonight (1984) Eugene Wilde https://t.co/yGNw8AR25F

Are we gonna just ignore this Pistons half time show? The OG’s going in #DetroitBasketball

Love You Down (1986) Ready for the World https://t.co/JxS5Y6SRB7

"When I wake up in the morning I am African-American, and when I go to sleep at night I am African American, and I can assure you I love who I am !" — Aaliyah for Honey magazine

Marvin Gaye’s voice isolated from music, 1967.

40 million Americans are going to lose their SNAP benefits on November 1st. If they don’t use up all the benefits by Oct. 31st, the money will be gone. Most people that have SNAP are people with jobs, that are students, caregivers, people who are disabled. 🧵

Debbie Allen and Misty Copeland after Copeland’s final performance with the American Ballet Theater. 🥹🩰 Copeland is an alumna of the Debbie Allen Dance Academy.