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Aretha Franklin reflects on dad's role in freedom walk

A breh here has a thread on books other black folk should read (or was it their children should read? :jbhmm:). I don't remember if these books in the article are part of the list. But brehs and brehhettes with kids in school are these books on your reading list? If you have already read them...

The Senate’s Three Black Members Introduce Bill to Finally Make Lynching a Federal Crime :wtf: How isn't one already? Though this bill is necessary, as I alluded to, this should have been done decades ago. The cynic in me gets the feeling that this might be for Presidential nominee attention...

Already posted it elsewhere but felt like it could interest some. Narrative is controlled by the winner. But you knew that :ufdup:

This is going out to all the educated brehs and brehettes that say that none of this is new. It isn't. Which gets on my nerves when wypipo be saying stuff like "This is not America" where'd y'all think Nazi, Germany got they style from? The oppression of black people here was one of their...

The rural world Communist organizers entered in 1930–31 made the poverty-stricken streets of Birmingham look like a paradise. Cotton farmers were in the midst of a crisis at least a decade old. After World War I, cotton prices plummeted, forcing planters to reduce acreage despite rising debts...

List of massacres in the United States - Wikipedia

Who allowed these nikkas to exist!!!!! :mindblown: Who are the Parents who allow there black children to become white supremacists puppets!!!:wtf: Black people we got to teach the kids about self respect and our history in this country To many of us are out here pushing these liberal and...

Fall of Kemet aka Egypt Cleopatra VII, more commonly known simply as ‘Cleopatra’, was born around 70 BC. She was the daughter of Ptolemy XII, the mother of the last Ptolemy of Egypt, and is considered by historians to be the last pharaoh of Egypt (it’s important to note that in the Egyptian...

Just some examples from Hometeam History

With Vikings in the latter seasons, they're coming with medieval heat. Show looks promising brehs, where the thread at?

Black musicians in a Portuguese painting of The Engagement of St Ursula and Prince Etherius, c 1520. Photograph: Bridgemanimages.com Within moments of meeting historian Miranda Kaufmann, I learn not to make flippant assumptions about race and history. Here we are in Moorgate, I say. Is it...

The real secret to Asian American success was not education :mjlol: Y’all nikkahs never learn this game is a long, long, long one. I know y’all nikkahs getting tired and uninterested, so here is a little To keep y’all reading. But we already knew this right?:francis: Wait there’s more...

I'm reading this book: A Peoples History of the United States ( shoutout to @R.E.N. Spells Ren for putting me on) and I always knew Columbus and the Spaniards were scumbags :pacspit: but the things I've just read. . And we know that Africans traveled to and settled these lands thousands of...

A photograph of Harriet Tubman is seen at the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park's Visitor Center in Church Creek, Maryland. (State Dept./Astrid Riecken) Anti-slavery activist Harriet Tubman, who herself escaped brutal slave owners in 1849, will become the first woman and first...

In my opinion, if more Black folk knew their history we would be better off. Also, we would be more prepared and equipped.

My review for the show: Money in the Bank 2017 Recap Preshow