Essential The Big Thread of Black Excellence

[CapitalOne]

 

[Danie84]

Willie O'Ree (Canadian born, first black player signed to the NHL)

 

[Danie84]

The Coloured Hockey League of the Maritimes (1890s-1920s)

I didn't even know about this. It brings a tear to the eye

 

[Patriarch]

Sammy

Nipsey Russell

http://nickelrevolution.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/dikk-gregory-60s-photo.jpg dikk Gregory

Red Foxx

Flip Wilson

Pryor

 

[Gifted one]

Harlem Rens basketball team

 

[El Dinero]

Chiekh Anta Diop - exposing cac's insecurities and lies for decades

 

[Thebadguy]

Montford Point Marines
Home Page

333rd Artillery Battalion/969th Artillery Battalion
333rd Field Artillery Battalion (United States) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

555th Parachute Infantry Battalion
555th Parachute Infantry Battalion (United States) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

USS Mason
USS Mason (DE-529) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Thebadguy]

Dan Bullock, youngest Marine killed in Vietnam.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/05/28/on-memorial-day-remembering-15-year-old-marine-pfc-dan-bullock.html

 

[emoney]

 

[606onit]

HIDDEN COLORS @ THE TRICYCLE
By Black Cinema Club (Albums) · Updated about an hour ago · Taken in London, United Kingdom

 

[CapitalOne]

 

[Danie84]

Samuel “Chip” Delany (one of the first black famous Sci-Fi writer)

 

[Danie84]

Son of Ingagi (first black Horror Sci-Fi movie)

 

[mbewane]

Dope thread, how did we go 22 pages without

Christine Taubira, Minister of Justice in the French government, from Guyane.

Barthélémy Boganda, Founding Father of the Central African Republic, was striving for Panafricanism. Died in a plane "accident".

 

[Danie84]

Lobo (first Black character to lead a comic book series)