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#BlackHistory365 Art Round-Up ⬇️
Elsa Soares via @rodrigoincolors
"This is Elsa Soares. She's one of the biggest names in Brazilian music and considered a matriarch of Brazilian black artistry. BBC named her the voice of the millenium and she was one of the most important and loudest voice against racism, LGBTQIA+ and women rights, among other social causes. She's died yesterday at age 91. This is a very simple, but sincere tribute to her. May you rest in power!
Please, listen to her music and search more about this great woman."
2. Portrait of Sarah Forbes Bonetta by Hannah Uzor via @fyblackwomenart
Portrait of Sarah Forbes Bonetta by Hannah Uzor
Sarah Forbes Bonetta was an Egbado princess of the Yoruba people in West Africa who was orphaned during a war with the nearby Kingdom of Dahomey and later became the slave of King Ghezo of Dahomey. In a remarkable twist of events, she was liberated from slavery by Captain Frederick E. Forbes of the British Royal Navy and became a goddaughter to Queen Victoria. She was married to Captain James Pinson Labulo Davies, a wealthy Lagos philanthropist.
3. Marian Anderson by @novva
I’ve always wanted to do a series on black classical singers for BHM, so here’s a sketch I squeezed in this week—a tribute to the great Marian Anderson!
Marian Anderson (February 27, 1897 – April 8, 1993) was an African-American opera singer and contralto. In 1939, after the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to allow Anderson to sing to an integrated audience in Washington, D.C, then First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt arranged for Anderson to perform an open-air concert on the Lincoln Memorial steps on Easter Sunday, April 9, 1939. She was able to deliver a critically acclaimed performance before an integrated crowd of more than 75,000 people, and a radio audience in the millions.
Read more about her accomplishments here, and donate to the National Marian Anderson Museum here.
Remember: tag your history & trailblazers art with #BlackExcellence365 for a chance to be featured!
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2Pac, a.k.a. Tupac Amaru Shakur, was one of the greatest rappers in history. His music helped to bring awareness to many issues in cities, and he is often considered a martyr of gangsta rap.
2Pac had a concept of THUG LIFE, which stood for "The Hate U Give Little Infants F*cks Everybody"
#BLM#blacklivesmatter#justice4khalil#2Pac#tupac shakur#Youtube#when can we cover him in school#thug life
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We say Black Lives Matter, and not White Lives or Blue Lives Matter, because those lives have always mattered!!
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Emmet Till was a 14 year old African-American boy who was savagely abducted, totured, and murdered for (reportedly) whistling at white-woman Carolyn Bryant, in Drew, Mississsippi. Bryant's husband, Roy Bryant, and Roy's half-brother J.W. Milam, who were armed, lynched Emmet, who was mutilated beyond recognition. They were found not guilty by an all-white jury, and admitted to it by selling the story of how they did it to Look magazine one year later (they were protected by Double Jeopardy).
Emmet's mother, Mamie Till Bradley, chose to have him be in an open casket, so the world could see the racism and injustice that killed her son.
#black lives matter#BLM#emmett till#police brutally#police#racism#racial injustice#tw lynching mention#lynching became a federal hate crime in 2022#the fact that it took that long is a hate crime itself
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