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Black is beautiful 3- Memphis Minnie

Black people have given SO MUCH to what is American culture. That just needs to be said and folks need to be reminded of it. This is a piece of Memphis Minnie, one of many of the women who pioneered what today is Blues, Jazz, Swing, and Rock. She was born in 1897 in Algiers, Louisiana and grew up in Mississippi. She got her first guitar at the age of 8 or 10 and began a life as a musician in her early teens. She began playing with what was known as Jug bands Back in the day it was extremely rare to own an electronic device that played music, so live musicians played at homes, parties, bars, on the street, etc. She recorded her first song in 1929 and would go on to record around 200 songs with a career that spanned decades. She was known to be an extremely talented picker with the guitar and was one of the early pioneer is Blues to use an electric guitar. She was married to and played with Kansas Joe, she like so many migrated to Chicago. Known as the Queen of the country blues she played until her early 60s and needs much much more attention and credit. Some of her big tunes include “when the levee breaks, Hoodoo lady blues, I’m a bad luck woman, Bumble Bee, and if you see my rooster. Some cats still play her songs today.

Sources: Memphis Music hall of fame, MemphisMinnie.com, Youtube

#MemphisMinnie #BlackHistoryMonth 

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Victorian home in Saegertown PA by Jim Hoover

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Civil Rights Leader  Ella Josephine Baker  (December 13, 1903 – December 13, 1986)

Baker’s decades of work included an array of both racial and economic justice efforts. She held posts with some of the most influential groups during the Civil Rights Movement, including the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the NAACP. Shortly after black college students organized a sit-in at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, Baker set up a meeting with the young activists that culminated in the founding of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1960. 

Artist Unlisted

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MnRmodFWP8)

I wrote a letter of what I would say to my younger, pre-transition, self if I had the chance, and I decided to make it into a video to share it. This is probably the most personal video I’ve ever posted, but I decided to share it as it’s things that would have really helped me a lot, and I hope it can help someone else. I hope you like it.

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Artist Imogen Appleton

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Good morning, tumblr

#iwokeuplikethis #iliterallyjustwokeup #lesbian #queerwoman #goodmorning

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Kyle Lowry’s thought on the MuslimBan. “Personally, I think it’s bullshit.”

Reporter: “Wanna try that again without swearing?”

“No.”

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Lone Pine, CA 2014 – Before the gopro joined our adventures. :)

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[Day 39, 40, 41, and 42]

I saw a photo on the internet and I thought I had to paint it because it is a beautiful picture.

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The shoulders of the women that we stand on are three American heroes; Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughn, Mary Jackson. Without them, we would not know how to reach the stars.

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