Did you know that Elizabeth Jennings was removed & arrested for refusing to leave an all white streetcar in 1854? She hired 24 yr old lawyer Chester A. Arther (yeah the 21st President), sued and won.
09:54 PM - Apr 24, 2024
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Mansa Musa is often considered the richest person who ever lived on Earth.
His generosity during his pilgrimage was so vast that he gave away so much gold in cities like Cairo and Mecca that it devalued the metal in those regions.
His generosity during his pilgrimage was so vast that he gave away so much gold in cities like Cairo and Mecca that it devalued the metal in those regions.
07:53 PM - Apr 24, 2024
Did you know not only did Thomas Jennings invent dry cleaning & was the 1st Black American to receive a patent, his daughter Elizabeth refused to give up her seat nearly 100 years before Rosa Parks?
05:15 PM - Apr 24, 2024
"You don't fight racism with racism. You fight racism with unity."
04:23 PM - Apr 23, 2024
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In 1837, a Ghanaian King, Nana Badu Bonsu ll, rebelled against the Dutch government in Ghana and killed several officers.
What followed was, the king was captured, sentenced for murder, and hanged. His body was desecrated as a Dutch surgeon removed his head.
What followed was, the king was captured, sentenced for murder, and hanged. His body was desecrated as a Dutch surgeon removed his head.
03:24 PM - Apr 23, 2024
Did y'all know a scientist, a Black man, Ernest Everett Just, was one of the founding fathers of us understanding the reactions that take place when sperm and egg fuse? It's called the acrosome reaction. He is also a founding member of Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.
02:33 PM - Apr 23, 2024
There are at least over a million Africans at the bottom of the Atlantic oceans.
These were not Americans or Brazilians, etc they were African men and women who were thrown overboard by slave traders.
Your comments on this ...
These were not Americans or Brazilians, etc they were African men and women who were thrown overboard by slave traders.
Your comments on this ...
01:46 PM - Apr 23, 2024
Did you know?
Otis Boykin invented the regulating unit that allowed the Heart pacemaker to work.
Vivien Theodore Thomas developed the techniques and tools that would improve blood flow to the heart.
And no Blood banks and blood storage if not for Charles Drew.
Otis Boykin invented the regulating unit that allowed the Heart pacemaker to work.
Vivien Theodore Thomas developed the techniques and tools that would improve blood flow to the heart.
And no Blood banks and blood storage if not for Charles Drew.
02:53 PM - Apr 18, 2024
Did you know that Black physician Daniel Hale William performed the first successful open heart surgery in 1893.
He wasn’t one of the first ( like so many use to try and minimize his accomplishments) he was the first.
He wasn’t one of the first ( like so many use to try and minimize his accomplishments) he was the first.
02:04 PM - Apr 18, 2024
This is why I must. It’s why you must. Teach the facts as real and raw as they are. Feelings are irrelevant. Historical facts are important and we all need them for decency’s sake.
Recognize agendas.
Do not let lying to you become the law.
Recognize agendas.
Do not let lying to you become the law.
11:44 AM - Apr 18, 2024
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Woke:
To be aware of, alert to & actively attentive to and empathetic to: racism, racial injustice, inequality, inequity, discrimination & other social inequalities such as misogyny/sexism & denial of LGBT rights.
WOKE and proud!!!
We all must stay woke!
To be aware of, alert to & actively attentive to and empathetic to: racism, racial injustice, inequality, inequity, discrimination & other social inequalities such as misogyny/sexism & denial of LGBT rights.
WOKE and proud!!!
We all must stay woke!
11:38 AM - Apr 18, 2024
Not enough people are talking about the fact that in Montgomery there is now a monument to formerly enslaved people that lists every one of their last names as it appeared in the 1870 Census, the first census to record Black people in this country.
07:58 AM - Apr 17, 2024
Did you know that George Washington Carver helped Ford Motor Co. Create substitute rubber used in the making of cars.
…plus he created over 300 amazing products using peanuts, 118 from sweet potatoes & 75 from pecans…
… however what he never created was Peanut Butter.
…plus he created over 300 amazing products using peanuts, 118 from sweet potatoes & 75 from pecans…
… however what he never created was Peanut Butter.
03:27 PM - Apr 16, 2024
German colonizers in Namibia, due to their interest in evolutionary theory & missing links executed inmates and decapitated them.
Herero women were required to remove all flesh from the heads to create clean skulls suitable for shipment for study in German Institutes.
Herero women were required to remove all flesh from the heads to create clean skulls suitable for shipment for study in German Institutes.
11:50 PM - Apr 14, 2024
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Maggie Walker started a department store allowing Black customers to shop with dignity: enter through the main doors instead of a side entrance, try on clothing, to eat at lunch counters and she hired exclusively Black women to work as clerks.
09:12 PM - Apr 14, 2024
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Be THE IMPORTANCE OF COWRIES IN AFRICAN CULTURE AND TRADITION.
History and cultural significance of cowries in African tradition:
Cowries: A Shell of Many Tales and Traditions in Africa.
History and cultural significance of cowries in African tradition:
Cowries: A Shell of Many Tales and Traditions in Africa.
02:27 PM - Apr 13, 2024
They won't tell you that this is Africa!
(Welcome to Zanzibar, Tanzania) 🇹🇿
(Welcome to Zanzibar, Tanzania) 🇹🇿
10:19 PM - Apr 12, 2024
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This metal mask was used during slavery for 3 main reasons.
1) To prevent the slaves from eating fruits such as apples, pineapples, oranges, cashews, bananas, plantains and sugarcanes etc while harvesting them, yet they were made to work consistently in all the plantation farms.
1) To prevent the slaves from eating fruits such as apples, pineapples, oranges, cashews, bananas, plantains and sugarcanes etc while harvesting them, yet they were made to work consistently in all the plantation farms.
07:00 PM - Apr 12, 2024
On this day in 1975, Singer, dancer and activist Josephine Baker passed away. Did you know she was also a spy in World War 2 for the French Air Force!
She became the first Black woman laid to rest in France's Pantheon mausoleum, the storied tomb of heroes.
She became the first Black woman laid to rest in France's Pantheon mausoleum, the storied tomb of heroes.
01:03 PM - Apr 12, 2024
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In Akan culture - Ghana 🇬🇭 Fontomfrom (Talking Drum) is the biggest drum of the drum ensemble. It is mostly used to communicate royal messages.
The Fontomfrom ensemble provides music for ceremonies honoring Akan chiefs and royal processions.
The Fontomfrom ensemble provides music for ceremonies honoring Akan chiefs and royal processions.
04:51 PM - Apr 10, 2024
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In 1964, two all-white, all-male juries in Mississippi failed to convict the killer of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. The culprit, a notorious white supremacist and Klansman named Byron De La Beckwith, managed to escape justice for the following three decades.
04:27 PM - Apr 10, 2024
Black Africans settled India around 70,000 years ago when no homosapiens lived in Asia. The Jawara of the India's Andaman Islands are the last pure descendants of the Black Africans who originally settled Asia. They are an endangered people.
10:13 AM - Apr 09, 2024
Remembering Baltimore’s own Billie Holliday (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959)
08:10 PM - Apr 08, 2024
