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I thought it would be nice to see Emmett Till in another light...(pictured on the left) 🕊

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Why is this white man relevant to Black history? He was one of the Freedom Riders. In 1960, he was on a bus full of Freedom Riders who arrived in Montgomery, Alabama, where an angry whıte mob was waiting for them. He volunteered to get off the bus first and take the brunt of the mob's vioIence, which left him beàten and bIoody. His name was James Zwerg.

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Michael Jackson challenged Hollywood's whıtewashed portrayals of ancient Egypt (Kemet) with his iconic Remember the Time short film.

Featuring a predominantly Black cast, the video celebrated the grandeur and African heritage of Kemet at a time when such representations were rare in mainstream media.

Micheal Jackson show-cased the greatness of Black Africans in ancient Egypt (Kemet) in the 90s!! This is the most accurate depiction of the Kemetyu Africans ever put in the mainstream media.

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African-American boys on Easter morning, Southside, Chicago, Illinois, April 1941. Photo by Russell Lee.

The only one of the five boys that has been identified is the tall, hatless teenager in the middle, named Spencer Lee Readus, Jr., who was 14 when the photo was taken. Spencer Lee went on to serve in the U.S. Army during World War II and built a career as a plaster foreman.

According to his daughter, he remembered the day as, “I was going to the show on Easter Sunday and a white man approached me to ask if he could take a picture of me and these other boys.”

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In September 1946, Albert Einstein called racısm America’s “worst dısease.” Earlier that year, he told students and faculty at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, the oldest Black college in the Western world, that raciaI segregatıon was “not a dısease of colored people, but a dısease of whıte people, adding, “I will not remain silent about it.”

When Albert Einstein moved to America, he was disappointed to see how Black people were being treated. Even in his new hometown of Princeton, he observed separation of the whıte and bIack societies. Einstein thought of segregatıon as “unacceptable.”

Albert Einstein rarely accepted honorary doctorates, but he did so for Lincoln University, a small historically Black college in Pennsylvania in 1946. He also gave a lecture before a small group of students who were seen with him in the photo.

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So you mean to tell me that someone down your ancestry line survived being chaıned to other human bodięs for several months in the bottom of a dısease-infested ship during the Middle Passage, lost their language, customs and traditions, picked up the English language as best they could while working free of charge from sun up to sun down as they watched babies sold from out of their arms and women rapęd by ruthless sIave owners.

Took names with no last names, no birth certificates, no heritage of any kind, braved the Underground Railroad, survived the Civil Wąr to enter into sharecropping... Learned to read and write out of sheer will and determination, faced the burning crosses of the KƘK, everted their eyes at the black bodies swinging from ropes hųng on trees...

Fought in World Wąrs as soldiers only to return to America as boys, marched in Birmingham, hosed in Selma, jailed in Wilmington, assassinated in Memphis, segregated in the South, ghettoed in the North, ignored in history books, stereotyped in Hollywood...

and in spite of it all, someone in your family line endured every era to make sure you would get here, but you receive one rejection, face one obstacle, lose one friend, get overlooked, and you want to quit?

How dare you entertain the very thought of quitting. People, you will never know, survived from generation to generation so you could succeed. Don’t you dare let them down!

It is N0T in our DNA to quit!

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Debutante Ball in Harlem 1940’s!

A "debutante ball" in Harlem was an adapted tradition where young, socially respected Black women were formally presented to society, often organized by Black social and civic organizations to foster pride, community, and networking, and to debunk negative stereotypes about the Black community. 💪🏿

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A San boy from Namibia 🇳🇦

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BIack peopIe have the oldest and greatest history. Don't let sIavery be the only chapter you know.

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Marian Croak, the genius mind behind the technology that powers the way we all communicate today — Zoom, FaceTime, WhatsApp and more — has officially been honored with her place in the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

With over 200 patents to her name, her work has shaped the world forever. Give her flowers while she can still smell them. 🌹 👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

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