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every month is black history month
Mark Twain and John T. Lewis, New York, 1903 [more info]
Booker T. Washington, 1910, former slave turned teacher
Flood victims at Red Cross Relief Station, 1937, 1 & 2
Segregated drinking fountain, 1938
Children in line at movie theater, Chicago, 1941
Boy Scouts, Projects of Chicago, 1942
Billie Holiday, 1947
Ella Fitzgerald and Marilyn Monroe at Tiffany Club, 1954
The March on Washington, 1963 [more info]
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fun fact that many people do not know, princess tiana is real!
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They’ve Always Been Watching Us: From COINTELPRO and Martin Luther King, Jr to the NSA’s surveillance program, the US Government has been keeping a close watch on the American Left for a long time.
by Andy Warner and Jess Parker
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80 years ago, Jesse Owens destroyed the Olympics’ racial hierarchy and humiliated Hitler at the Berlin Games.
22-year-old Jesse Owens rose above prejudice. He smashed the assumed racial superiority by winning FOUR gold medals during the 1936 Olympic Games.
The son of a sharecropper and whose grandparents had been slaves, Owens won the 100m, 200m, 4x100m relay, and long jump breaking the Olympic records that would stand for 20 years. Even Hitler couldn’t stand the humiliation and left the stadium in a huff.
He became the first American to win four gold medals at a single Olympics.
However, Owens returned to America to be made to feel unworthy.
“I came back to my native country and I couldn’t ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door, I couldn’t live where I wanted. I wasn’t invited up to shake hands with Hitler, but I wasn’t invited to the White House to shake hands with the President either.”
Give some respect to Jesse Owens, The man who traveled to a nation that officially hated them for the color of their skin, representing a country that unofficially hated them for the same reason, and kicked all their asses.
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Blue lives matters is just another way for racist to be racist. Keep your blue lives matters to yourself.
Creator • @mattxiv
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‘The Slaves Dread New Year’s Day the Worst’: The Grim History of January 1
Americans are likely to think of New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day as a time to celebrate the fresh start that a new year represents, but there is also a troubling side to the holiday’s history. In the years before the Civil War, the first day of the new year was often a heartbreaking one for enslaved people in the United States.
In the African-American community, New Year’s Day used to be widely known as “Hiring Day” — or “Heartbreak Day,” as the African-American abolitionist journalist William Cooper Nell described it — because enslaved people spent New Year’s Eve waiting, wondering if their owners were going to rent them out to someone else, thus potentially splitting up their families. The renting out of slave labor was a relatively common practice in the antebellum South, and a profitable practice for white slave owners and hirers.“
‘Hiring Day’ was part of the larger economic cycle in which most debts were collected and settled on New Year’s Day,” says Alexis McCrossen, an expert on the history of New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day and a professor of history at Southern Methodist University, who writes about Hiring Day in her forthcoming book Time’s Touchstone: The New Year in American Life.
Some enslaved people were put up for auction that day, or held under contracts that started in January. (These transactions also took place all year long and contracts could last for different amounts of time.) These deals were conducted privately among families, friends and business contacts, and slaves were handed over in town squares, on courthouse steps and sometimes simply on the side of the road, according to Divided Mastery: Slave Hiring in the American South by Jonathan D. Martin.
Accounts of the cruelty of Hiring Day come from records left by those who secured their freedom, who described spending the day before January 1 hoping and praying that their hirers would be humane and that their families could stay together.
“Of all days in the year, the slaves dread New Year’s Day the worst of any,” a slave named Lewis Clarke said in an 1842 account.
“On New Year’s Day, we went to the auctioneer’s block, to be hired to the highest bidder for one year,” Israel Campbell wrote in a memoir published in 1861 in Philadelphia, in which he describes being hired out three times.
“That’s where that sayin’ comes from that what you do on New Year’s Day you’ll be doin’ all the rest of the year,” a former slave known as Sister Harrison said in an interview in 1937.
Harriet Jacobs wrote a particularly detailed account in “The Slaves’ New Year’s Day” chapter of her 1861 autobiography Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. “Hiring-day at the south takes place on the 1st of January. On the 2[n]d, the slaves are expected to go to their new masters,” she wrote. She observed slave owners and farmers renting out their human chattel for extra income during the period between the cotton and corn harvests and the next planting season. From Christmas to New Year’s Eve, many families would “wait anxiously” to find out whether they would be rented out, and to whom. On New Year’s Day, “At the appointed hour the grounds are thronged with men, women, and children, waiting, like criminals to hear their doom pronounced,” Jacobs wrote.
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Another fact:
“’Watch Night Service’ in the Black Church in America symbolizes the historical fact, that on the night of Dec. 31, 1862 during the Civil War, free and freed Black people living in the Union States gathered at churches and/or other safe spaces, while thousands of their enslaved Black sisters and brothers stood, knelt and prayed on plantations and other slave holding sites in America — waiting for President Abraham Lincoln to sign the Emancipation Proclamation into law. The Emancipation Proclamation legally recognized that the Civil War was fought for slavery.” (Source)
SN: Thought I’d include that part too because sometimes Black Americans tend to do things out of tradition without realizing the significance that tradition upholds. I’m not a part of a particular religion anymore, but when I used to go to church with my family (out of tradition), I never knew the meaning of Watch Night, which is also known as “Freedom’s Eve,” because the meaning behind it was never talked about. It should be noted that non-Black Christian who also acknowledge “Watch Night,” which is also spelled as one word, upkeep this tradition for different reasons:
Here’s more historical context on Watch Night:
The first Watch Night service began with the Moravians, “a small Christian denomination whose roots lie in what is the present-day Czech Republic” in 1733 on the estates of Count Nicholas von Zinzendorf in Hernhut, Germany. John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist Movement, picked up the tradition from the Moravians and incorporated it into Methodism as a time for Methodists to renew their covenant with God and to contemplate their state of grace in light of the second coming of Christ. Wesley believed that all Christians should reaffirm their covenant with God annually. He held Watch Night services between 8:30 p.m. and 12:30 a.m. on the Friday nearest the full moon and on New Year’s Eve.
The first Methodist Watch night service in the United States probably took place in 1770 at Old St. George’s Church in Philadelphia, a church of which Richard Allen, the founder of the African American Episcopal church, was a member. African American Methodists celebrated Watch Night prior to Freedom’s Eve because Allen and other African Americans celebrated Watch Night Meeting services at St. George’s Church and also at Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia.
While acknowledging the Methodist starting point, many African American Christians link their celebration of the tradition to December 31, 1862, “Freedom’s Eve.”
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Our history is so vast and diverse . We live everywhere around the globe .
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thomas jefferson and sally hemings did not have a forbidden romance as many historians like to say. sallywas thomas’s child sex slave and it’s time that people know the truth about our founding fathers.
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The Lynching of #MarieScott...Marie Scott was a 17 y/o Blk teenage girl, who lived in Wagoner County, Oklahoma, in 1914...She was lynched by a white mob after she was brutally assaulted by 4 white men who broke into her home while she was undressing..
On March 31, 1914, 4 inebriated white men decided to drive over to the Blk community of Wagoner County, Oklahoma with the intent to sexually assault Blk women...these men broke into the home of 17 y/o Marie Scott and proceeded to sexuallly assault her..
Marie's brother heard her cries for help, grabbed a knife and ran to help his sister..Marie stated they fought off the 4 men, with one man, Lemuel Pierce, being stabbed to death...she told her brother to run, and he did.
Marie was arrested by the local sheriff and his deputies, WITH NO ARRESTS, INDICTMENT OR CHARGES BEING BROUGHT AGAINST HER ATTACKERS‼
An angry white mob became enraged when they couldn't find Marie's brother, so they dragged Marie, kicking and screaming, from her jail cell, and hung this 17 y/o sexually assaulted child from a nearby telephone pole on March 31, 1914.
Marie's brother was never caught or charged in the murder of one of her rapists.
Such was the life of the Blk woman during the Jim Crow era...though she was no longer a chattel slave, her body and sexuality was STILL BEING USED, ABUSED AND DISCARDED BY THE WY MAN at his whim, without ANY CONSEQUENCES whatsoever ‼
We honor our Ancestors, and remember the turmoil, anguish and egregious wrongs they suffered..REST IN POWER, YOUNG QUEEN!
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US Open 2020: Naomi Osaka’s important way to the Title
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Harmonia (@honeiee)
Harmonia Rosales repaints classic artworks to show God is a black woman
Ahead of her latest show, New World Conciousness, the painter reflects on why we must reject the stale, pale, male traditions of art
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The Last Speech of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Please listen, and think. God bless you all, we love you with the love of Christ.
Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day!!!
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