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Little man was not having it! LoL.
Happy Birthday Ms. Ida B. Wells-Barnett!
On this day; Activist, and Journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett was born into slavery July 16th, 1862 in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Ida was committed to fighting against lynching and was passionate about the Women's Rights Movement.
Happy Juneteenth Everyone!
"For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others" - Nelson Mandela
Alright, what do you have planned for this Juneteenth Holiday? Drop your plans in the comments.
Rest In Heaven Ms. Cicely Tyson. We appreciate your hard work, resilience, and sacrifices for our culture. You are the epitome of black excellence and beauty. The blueprint to living a fulfilled life. May the generations after us honor and remember you forever!
Nia Dennis Strikes again! It's the C-Walk for me. Check out this Black Culture inspired floor routine by the amazing Ms. Nia Dennis
Nia Dennis' latest routine is a must-watch.
Lets start Monday with a little game. Drop your answers in the comments, no duplicates. We'll kick it off With "Man Man"...who you got?
GIFs only. Lets play.
Please Pray for Jeremiah. We don't need to lose any more greats this year.
The New York MC previously asked for prayers for Jeremih’s recovery.
Talk about BLACKandMoBlack Excellence.
So far over 102 Million Early Votes have already been cast. Those are record breaking numbers for any Presidential Elections. Props to all our Folks who handled their B.I.-izzness!
It is with a heavy heart that we report this unfortunate news. His legacy will forever be imprinted into the fabric of black culture. Rest In Power young King.
It is with immeasurable grief that we confirm the passing of Chadwick Boseman.
Chadwick was diagnosed with stage III colon cancer in 2016, and battled with it these last 4 years as it progressed to stage IV.
A true fighter, Chadwick persevered through it all, and brought you many of the films you have come to love so much. From Marshall to Da 5 Bloods, August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and several more, all were filmed during and between countless surgeries and chemotherapy.
It was the honor of his career to bring King T’Challa to life in Black Panther.
He died in his home, with his wife and family by his side.
The family thanks you for your love and prayers, and asks that you continue to respect their privacy during this difficult time.
Photo Credit: Sam Jones
Yall excited about thistles? They have been hinting at this for a while now. We are happy to see they will be going through with it. Can't wait to hear some good old R&B hits from these two.
Thank God Compton has a BLACK mayor. This is why its important to get our people in office. Please read this article, for more information on the "Executioners ".
The alleged group of Los Angeles sheriff’s deputies is accused of "terrorizing" civilians.
Who wouldn't want this on their anniversary?
Are we the only ones excited about these classics coming to Netflix?
"Moesha," "Sister, Sister," "One on One," "Girlfriends" and more are arriving to the platform this fall.
July 28th . The Silent Protest Parade July 28th 1917...
On July 28th, 1917, New York witnessed 10,000 Black people silently march for civil rights, but what sparked the movement?
During the summer of 1917 racial tension steamed in East St. Louis, Illinois as Black people were targeted and attacked after a plant processing company hired black workers to replace striking white workers. The racial tension erupted in flames on July 1st, 1917, as angry white mobs took to the streets, and began burning black homes and businesses in the black section of town. As the flames engulfed the buildings, the white mobs waited outside the burning buildings, and beat or shot black people as they attempted to escape the flames. The mayor at the time called in the National Guard, and they were unable to contain the violent white mob. July 1st –3rd, at least 40 African Americans were murdered in the city, and hundreds more were burned, beaten, and shot. As a response to these egregious acts, and high amounts of publicized lynchings in Memphis, Tennessee that same year, the NAACP organized the Negro Silent Protest Parade. On July 28th, nearly 10,000 black men, women, and children hit the streets of New York, and silently marched down 5th Avenue to the beat of their own drummers, thrusting picket signs that boldly demanded justice for those lives lost. The march was the first of its kind, and is noted as the second instance of African Americans organizing and publicly demonstrating in the name of civil rights. It is unfortunate to see that 100 years later Black Folks are still marching and protesting to end the same injustices. -Mo Black
Sooo....raise your hand if your NOT voting for Kanye 2020? 🙋🏾♂️🤚🏽
Kanye held his first Political Campaign Rally over the weekend and sent the public in a tweeting frenzy. Not only did Ye propose a program that will grant everyone who has a baby 1 million dollars ( to promote more life), he also claimed that Harriet Tubman "Didn't free the slaves". While we understand the point he was trying to make, it all sounds a little ( how can we say this nicely) too eccentric for us. What are your thoughts on the Rally? Read the article below for a summary of the talking points.
Kanye West made controversial claims about Harriet Tubman in his first campaign rally Sunday and said he and Kim Kardashian seriously pursued abortion
White woman publicly slams this black queen on Facebook, because she is beating her in an amatuer Maxim cover model contest, and her racist friends join in in the comments. Black people started voting like crazy, lets hope she wins.
Click the link for full article. https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/racist-trolling-hasnt-stopped-this-maxim-cover-girl-2020-contestant-its-ignited-enough-support-to-give-her-a-shot-at-the-win-214625805.html
John Robert Lewis, the son of sharecroppers who survived a brutal beating by police during a landmark 1965 march in Selma, Alabama, to become a towering figure of the civil rights movement and a longtime US congressman, has passed away after a six-month battle with cancer. He was 80.
"I have been in some kind of fight — for freedom, equality, basic human rights — for nearly my entire life. I have never faced a fight quite like the one I have now," Lewis said in a December statement announcing his diagnosis. "I have decided to do what I know to do and do what I have always done: I am going to fight it and keep fighting for the Beloved Community. We still have many bridges to cross."
Lewis has said Dr. King inspired his activism. Angered by the unfairness of the Jim Crow South, he launched what he called "good trouble" with organized protests and sit-ins. In the early 1960s, he was a Freedom Rider, challenging segregation at interstate bus terminals across the South and in the nation's capital.
"We do not want our freedom gradual; we want to be free now," he said at the time.
At age 25, Lewis helped lead a march for voting rights on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, where he and other marchers were met by heavily armed state and local police who attacked them with clubs, fracturing Lewis' skull. Images from that "Bloody Sunday" shocked the nation and galvanized support for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
"I gave a little blood on that bridge," he said years later. "I thought I was going to die. I thought I saw death."
Despite the attack and other beatings, Lewis never lost his activist spirit, taking it from protests to politics. He was elected to the Atlanta city council in 1981, then to Congress six years later.
Once in Washington, he focused on fighting against poverty and helping younger generations by improving education and health care. He also co-wrote a series of graphic novels about the civil rights movement, which won him a National Book Award.
"I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956, with some of my brothers and sisters and first cousins — I was only 16 years old — we went down to the public library trying to check out some books, and we were told by the librarian that the library was for whites only and not for coloreds," Lewis said. "It was a public library."
He didn't set foot in that library again until 40 years later — to sign copies of his own memoir. He said the 1956 experience set him on a course toward the civil rights movement.
"I've said to students, 'When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something, to say something,'" Lewis said in spring 2018. "And Dr. King inspired us to do just that."
OAKLAND, Calif. (KRON) — The man convicted of stabbing Nia Wilson to death on a BART train in Oakland was sentenced Friday to spend the rest of his life in prison without possibility of parol…
Mo'Nique scored a victory in her discrimination lawsuit against Netflix on Thursday when U.S. District Judge Andre Birotte Jr. denied the company's motion
In honor of lets play a round of "What we Watching". We know where our remote clickin'.
Hold these cops accountable for their misunderstanding that led to her death.
Newly released audio of interviews that followed the death of Breonna Taylor are revealing additional details related to the case. Taylor died in March
The Atlanta Police officer who shot and killed Rayshard Brooks at a Wendy's parking lot last week was charged with felony murder, and the other officer on scene was charged with aggravated assault, Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard announced Wednesday.
Please Read & Share. During this public outcry, There are organized groups of white people breaking windows, and starting fires. We've seen multiple videos and pictures of these agitators attempting to vilolently escalade the protest, while African American protesters beg them to stop. Something is definitely suspiciously looming about these groups.
"When we aren't asking people to destroy things in our name and people do it anyway, we know that this is something that's going to blow back on us," one black activist told BuzzFeed News.
"We’re devastated about the senseless violence that has broken the hearts of our families," they said.
50 Cent, aka Curtis Jackson, is back in the producer's...
Happy Memorial Day.
Thanks "I Love Being Black" for this write up.
KNOW YOUR HISTORY: Memorial Day was started by former slaves on May, 1, 1865 in Charleston, SC to honor 257 dead Union Soldiers who had been buried in a mass grave in a Confederate prison camp. They dug up the bodies and worked for 2 weeks to give them a proper burial as gratitude for fighting for their freedom. They then held a parade of 10,000 people led by 2,800 Black children where they marched, sang and celebrated.
What we now know as Memorial Day began as “Decoration Day” in the immediate aftermath of the U.S. Civil War. It was a tradition initiated by former slaves to celebrate emancipation and commemorate those who died for that cause.
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Yale University historian David W. Blight described the day:
During the final year of the war, the Confederates had converted the planters’ horse track, the Washington Race Course and Jockey Club, into an outdoor prison. Union soldiers were kept in horrible conditions in the interior of the track; at least 257 died of exposure and disease and were hastily buried in a mass grave behind the grandstand. Some 28 black workmen went to the site, re-buried the Union dead properly, and built a high fence around the cemetery. They whitewashed the fence and built an archway over an entrance on which they inscribed the words, “Martyrs of the Race Course.”Then, black Charlestonians in cooperation with white missionaries and teachers, staged an unforgettable parade of 10,000 people on the slaveholders’ race course. The symbolic power of the low-country planter aristocracy’s horse track (where they had displayed their wealth, leisure, and influence) was not lost on the freed people. A New York Tribune correspondent witnessed the event, describing “a procession of friends and mourners as South Carolina and the United States never saw before.”At 9 a.m. on May 1, the procession stepped off led by 3,000 black schoolchildren carrying armloads of roses and singing “John Brown’s Body.” The children were followed by several hundred black women with baskets of flowers, wreaths and crosses.
Then came black men marching in cadence, followed by contingents of Union infantry and other black and white citizens. As many as possible gathered in the cemetery enclosure; a children's choir sang “We’ll Rally around the Flag” and several spirituals before several black ministers read from scripture.
• So to all those who have fallen in the fight for freedom, justice and equality we say thank you and Happy Memorial Day. - I Love Being Black
Happy Birthday Mr. Malcom X.
We are forever grateful for your courage and determination!
Happy Birthday Mr. August Wilson who would have been 75 years old today.
Today's Mo' Black Mo'Ments. April 27.
April 27th 1945 The Legendary August Wison was born.
August Wilson was a famous African American Poet & Playwright. August Wilson most famous plays are "Jitney", "Ma Rainys Black Bottom", and "Fences" which was adapted to a full length movie in 2016 starring Denzel Washington & Viola Davis. August Wilson was the first African American to have two simultaneous plays on Broadway. Wilson was honored with many awards including two Pulitzer Prices, and a Tony Best Play Award for Jitney and Fences. Join us in wishing Mr. August Wilson a very special birthday, he would have been 75 years old today.
Happy Birthday To The Queen of Jazz & First Lady Of Song.
Ella Fitzgerald.
Today's Black Mo'Ments:
April 25th, 1917- Ella Fitzgerald was born.
Many referred to Ella as the Queen of Jazz & The First Lady of Song. Ella has won 13 Grammy Music Awards, and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1967. Fitzgerald's contributed her velvety jazz vocals and iconic skats on culturally famous songs like "Summer Time" and "Mack The Knife". Ella often collaborated with the greats like, Duke Ellington, Lousi Armstrong, and Frank Sinatra. In an interview, Frank Sinatra once said "Ella Fitzgerald is the only performer with whom I've ever worked who made me nervous." "Because I believe she is the greatest popular singer in the world."
Happy Birthday To The Queen of Jazz & First Lady of Song.
In This Video Ella Perform "Cry ME A River" live with Joe Pass.
Will Smith and Trya blessed us with this Fresh Prince Flashback. 90's culture was the best. Comment if you remember watching this episode.
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Yo it’s 30 YEARS LATER and still has this scene memorized!! Love that!
If this Disney movie doesn't resonate with you, you were not a black kid in the 90's.
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Rest In Heaven Ms. Cicely Tyson. We appreciate your hard work, resilience, and sacrifices for our culture. You are the epitome of black excellence and beauty. The blueprint to living a fulfilled life. May the generations after us honor and remember you forever!
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