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Today In History
Diana Ross, actress, legendary solo singer, and lead singer for the Supremes, was born in Detroit, MI, on this date March 26, 1944.
Defines an icon, a national treasure with a magnificent legacy that has changed the course of music history and popular culture-Diana Ross would help to create a national cultural movement and become the premiere artist at the renown Motown Records. Her extraordinary journey from the leader of The Supremes to her solo career has inspired and empowered countless musicians, artists, celebrities, and young dreamers.
Her voice, described as “honey” and “angelic,” has over 100 million streams, downloads and sales around the world.
In what has been described as one of the greatest live concert performances, Diana Ross drew a crowd of over 800,000 people to New York’s Central Park on July 21 & 22, 1983. Soon after the show began on July 21, pouring rain and heavy wind threatened to put an end to the show, but she pushed on for much of the set, urging the drenched crowd to remain calm and stay with her. Eventually the storm put an end to the performance, but not before she promised her fans that she would return the next day. True to her word, she performed the entire concert again on July 22nd for the people of New York City.
Ms. Ross also shined on the big screen, with films like “Lady Sings The Blues,” “Mahogany,” and “The Wiz.” Her artistry reached near and far, inspiring audiences across America and around the globe.
“As you hear my voice, you hear my heart. ‘Let Love Lead the Way.’ I am so happy to have music as a part of my life. For the many moments of traveling and singing songs to you and loving you, I am so, so grateful. Thank You for all the blessings in my life that you have given me. I have always felt your beautiful love. Thank you to my children and all my family. Thank you to all those that have made this incredible journey possible.”
CARTER™️ Magazine
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longliveblackness · 5 months
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Congo is silently going through a silent genocide. Millions of people are being killed so that the western world can benefit from its natural resources.
More than 60% of the world's cobalt reserves are found in Congo, used in the production of smartphones.
Western countries are providing financial military aid to invade regions filled with reserves and in the process millions are getting killed and millions homeless.
Multinational mining companies are enslaving people especially children to mine.
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La República Democrática del Congo vive un genocidio silencioso. Millones de personas están siendo asesinadas para que la parte occidental del mundo pueda beneficiarse de sus recursos naturales.
Más del 60% de las reservas mundiales de cobalto se encuentran en el Congo, y se utiliza en la producción de teléfonos inteligentes.
Los países occidentales están proporcionando asistencia financiera militar para invadir regiones llenas de reservas y en el proceso millones de personas mueren y millones se quedan sin hogar.
Las empresas mineras multinacionales están esclavizando a la gente, especialmente a los niños, para trabajar en las minas.
Street Art and Photo by Artist Eduardo Relero
(https://eduardorelero.com)
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itshunnib · 2 months
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Happy Black History month!
Remember Black history is made daily. Past, present, and future ✨
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scarletwitchie2 · 2 months
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Art by REVO-COLLAGE on deviant art.
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ashoryalda · 1 year
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MelaninMagic Celebrating Afro-Colored Beauty During Black History Month
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sisisimss · 2 months
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#BHMCAS day 1 ✧ neosoul/boho ✧ Skylar Bruno
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usnatarchives · 1 month
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Skyward Bound: The Willa Beatrice Brown Story ✈
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Celebrating Black History Month, we honor Willa Beatrice Brown, a trailblazer in aviation and civil rights activism. Willa Brown, born in 1906 in Glasgow, Kentucky, shattered racial and gender barriers in the skies and became the first African American woman to earn a commercial pilot’s license in the United States. Her unwavering dedication to integrating aviation programs and empowering future pilots through education and advocacy has cemented her as a pivotal figure in American history.
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Willa Brown’s journey began with a passion for flying, leading her to earn her pilot’s license in 1938. Together with her husband, Cornelius Coffey, she founded the Coffey School of Aeronautics in Chicago, where they trained African American men and women, providing a foundation for the illustrious Tuskegee Airmen during World War II.
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Brown’s advocacy extended to her role as the first African American woman to receive a commission as a lieutenant in the Civil Air Patrol and her political endeavors to integrate the armed forces, culminating in President Harry Truman signing Executive Order 9981 in 1948 to desegregate the military.
For those interested in exploring more about Willa Beatrice Brown’s incredible life and impact, the National Archives holds a treasure trove of resources:
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malcolmxnetwork · 8 months
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Once you change your philosophy, you change your thought pattern. Once you change your thought pattern, you change your attitude. Once you change your attitude, it changes your behavior pattern and then you go on into some action. As long as you gotta sit-down philosophy, you’ll have a sit-down thought pattern, and as long as you think that old sit-down thought you’ll be in some kind of sit-down action. https://malcolmx.gumroad.com/l/MalcolmX
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soberscientistlife · 1 year
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💯on point.
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justanotherbuggysimp · 2 months
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Genocide-commiting pieces of shit getting karma without expecting it, we love to see it 🥰
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blerdsunited · 2 months
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Drolta Tzuentes from Castlevania Nocturne. #BlackHistoryMonth
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cartermagazine · 1 day
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Today In History
Sarah Vaughn, jazz entertainer, was born in Newark, NJ, on this date March 27, 1924.
Vaughan grew up with a love of music and performing. Winning a talent competition held at Harlem’s Apollo Theater launched her singing career. She worked with bandleaders Earl Hines and Billy Eckstine-working with Eckstine were trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and saxophonist Charlie Parker, who introduced the group to a new form of jazz, known as bebop.
An inspired Sarah Vaughan brought bebop into her singing, which can be heard in the 1945 recording of “Lover Man” that she made with Parker and Gillespie.
Some of her popular songs were: “It’s Magic,” “Black Coffee,” “Broken-Hearted Melody,” “Make Yourself Comfortable,” and “A Lover’s Concerto.”
CARTER™️ Magazine
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longliveblackness · 7 months
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The Horrors of Lynching: Photographs and Postcards
Note to readers: This post contains graphic and disturbing images.
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During the late 19th and early 20th century, thousands of photographs and postcards of Black Americans killed by white mobs in racist terror lynchings were collected, traded and sent through the U.S. postal service.
The postcards and photographs, depicting gruesome images of the bodies of Black men, women and children who had been tied to trees, mutilated, tortured, shot and burned alive by white mobs, were often distributed as souvenirs and saved as mementos in family albums and stored away in attics for safekeeping.
The lynching photographs often captured the bodies of the murdered Black Americans and the hundreds of white people — including children — who gathered to witness the public spectacle of lynchings. According to historians, in more than half of these photos and postcards, white people were shown smiling and celebrating the spectacles.
WHITE PEOPLE MONETIZED THE MURDER OF BLACK PEOPLE
Lynching photographs and postcards were shrewdly distributed — ​​often for profit — across communities by hand and through the U.S. mail. They were often sold for as little as a quarter, which would be worth about $3.46 today.
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Source: wordinblack.com
Translated by Long Live Blackness by Shaneyra Thompson
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Los horrores de los linchamientos: fotografías y postales
Nota para los lectores: Esta publicación contiene imágenes gráficas e inquietantes.
Descripción de primera imagen: [Cinco afroamericanos fueron colgados de un cornejo en el condado de Sabine, Texas, en 1908 como "una advertencia para todos los negros".]
Traducción de la postal:
Esta es sólo la rama de un árbol de Cornejo;
Un emblema de la SUPREMACIA BLANCA.
Una lección que una vez se enseñó en la escuela de los Pioneros:
que esta es una tierra de GOBIERNO DEL HOMBRE BLANCO.
Una vez, temprano en la mañana, los blancos le dijeron al Hombre Rojo que enmendara su camino.
El negro, ahora, por gracia eterna, debe aprender a permanecer en el lugar del negro.
En el Soleado Sur, la Tierra de los Libres, que la SUPREMACÍA BLANCA sea para siempre.
Que esto sea una advertencia para todos los negros, o sufrirán el destino del árbol de Cornejo.
A finales del siglo XIX y principios del siglo XX, se recopilaron, comercializaron y enviaron a través del servicio postal de Estados Unidos miles de fotografías y postales de estadounidenses negros asesinados por turbas blancas en linchamientos terroristas racistas.
Las postales y fotografías, que mostraban imágenes espantosas de los cuerpos de hombres, mujeres y niños negros que habían sido atados a árboles, mutilados, torturados, fusilados y quemados vivos por turbas blancas, a menudo se distribuían como souvenirs y se guardaban como recuerdos en álbumes familiares.
Las fotografías de los linchamientos a menudo capturaban los cuerpos de los estadounidenses negros asesinados y los cientos de personas blancas (incluyendo niños) que se reunían para presenciar el espectáculo público de los linchamientos. Según los historiadores, en más de la mitad de estas fotografías y postales, se mostraba a personas blancas sonriendo y celebrando los espectáculos.
LOS BLANCOS MONETIZARON EL ASESINATO DE LOS NEGROS
Se distribuyeron astutamente fotografías y postales de linchamientos (a menudo con fines de lucro) entre las comunidades, en mano y por correo postal. A menudo se vendían por tan solo veinticinco centavos, lo que hoy valdría unos 3.46 dólares.
Descripción de segunda imagen: [Una postal de un linchamiento en Duluth. 15 de Junio, 1920.]
Fuente: wordinblack.com
Traducido por Long Live Blackness by Shaneyra Thompson
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itshunnib · 2 months
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Black Girls Rock illustration set, Should I do a set of guys for this as well or move on to next illustration idea 🖤✨
This was fun to do, wanted to do more but maybe next time!
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whenweallvote · 1 month
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Today we’re thinking of the brilliant Toni Morrison, on what would have been her 93rd birthday.
In 1993, she became the first Black woman in history to win the Nobel Prize in Literature — in addition to her other accolades, including the 1988 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012. 
Toni Morrison is renowned for centering the beauty of being Black in her written work, especially from the perspective of Black women and girls.  We honor her today and every day!
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ashoryalda · 6 months
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MelaninMagic Celebrating Afro-Colored Beauty During Black History Month
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