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16/01/2024

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06/05/2023

TRUTH & the THREE STAGES: According to 19th century German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer said, "All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident."

The journey one experiences in creativity, productivity, and entrepreneurship is fraught with internal and external land mines.

EXAMPLE: Dr. Walter Milton and I went through 2.5 years of researching, writing and editing 12-16 hours every day — with no guarantees…no proof of concept…no safety net. We were all in as we experienced all three stages.

RESULT: A body of proof. Our “love letter” to the country and the world. The K-12 Black History 365 curriculum that is being adopted by public and private schools across America.

By God’s grace, people on all sides show a lot of love for www.BH365.org

Let’s take a look at the 3 stages indicated by Schopenhauer:

1. RIDICULE: When a new idea or concept is brought up, it's so strange that it's completely absurd. People — especially some family and friends — cannot fathom this idea and how it fits into their lives, so they simply laugh at how impossible it seems.

If you want to be taken seriously, then you need to have evidence to back it up. Sometimes ideas are rightly ridiculed, while others are unjustly so. I suggest using the "do it, then say it" strategy to ensure your work has better chance of being accepted by others.

2. OPPOSITION: After a new concept hasn't made it past the first stage, people begin to worry that it's here to stay. A few might support the concept, but most will resist because they see it as a threat to everything they're familiar with.

Have you ever considered pursuing an endeavor, only to think to yourself:

• "I don't have any connections."
• “I don't have the formal training necessary."
• "I don't have money."

Think about what you can do or say when one of these lines comes up. How can you react when others disagree with you?

3. SELF EVIDENT: There is increasing evidence that supports the idea, which goes from having a few early supporters to entering the mainstream. A majority of people support the fact and come to accept it as a given.

When you succeed at proving an idea or achieving a goal, does it mean it's time to stop? Of course not.

In our personal lives, we can be met with ridicule and opposition whenever we make a choice that goes against mainstream beliefs, such as:

• When we choose to study a subject that isn't trendy .
• When we pursue a business idea that isn't proven yet.
• When we choose to live differently from people around us.

All of these things can lead to negative feedback and criticism. Instead of listening to everyone's opinions though, sometimes the best thing is to ignore the noise and due what works for us.

A viewpoint or concept that you have might not be popular today, but doesn't mean it's wrong. It could simply be that others haven't accepted it yet.

One note of caution, though: just because something isn't widely accepted doesn't mean that it's true (similar to how hard work doesn't always equate to results). There are going to be concepts that don't reach the third stage, no matter how much effort is put into proving otherwise.

But if you have done the research, put in the work, and are starting to see some positive results - then you just might be on to something.

“When you’re in the jar, you cannot read the label.”

One of the real tests of truth that emerges is when people you know and trust start “reading the label” for you…

Work hard. Work smart. Enjoy the journey.

— Melissa Chu (contributor), Huff Post

03/04/2023

A BRAND NEW WORD…especially for coffee lovers.

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07/01/2023

MY INTEREST in BLACK HISTORY was launched in earnest about 42+ years ago in 1980 when some Black pro athletes asked me questions about the role ancient Africans played in biblical and extra biblical history.

I didn’t have a clue. I began researching the topic so that I could at least respond somewhat intelligently to the plethora of topics that came up.

I was one of the first chaplains in the history of the NBA, starting in 1978 with the Washington Bullets and retiring 20 seasons later in 1998.

I had heard of Ivan Van Sertima (pictured below) and had seen some old, grainy VHS videos of Ivan either in a debate or lecturing. I knew that he was a professor of Africana Studies at Rutgers University and was revered as a man of great intellect and integrity.

In the early 1990s I somehow got ahold of his home phone number and I called him. This was during the pre-digital era. His wife, Jaqueline, answered. I asked to speak to Ivan. Even though she put her hand over the receiver, I could hear her whispering to him about some White gentleman wanting to talk with him.

When he came on the phone, I said, “Hello, Ivan, I have heard a lot about you and I would like to get to know you. I have much to learn from you. And I would hope that you would like to get to know me also.”

We talked for at least 45 minutes in that first encounter. A great conversation. He made me feel at ease and extremely comfortable. Near the end of the conversation, he asked for my home address. I didn’t think anything of it and gave it to him.

Approximately 3 weeks later a big box filled with at least 15 volumes of his books arrived unexpectedly in the mail. I was blown away. There were topics about Black presence in Asia, the Olmec civilization, they came before Columbus, the Moors and so much more.

The one book that immediately grabbed my attention was “Egypt Revisited”. Reading that book and seeing the images was kind of like wrapping my brain around a telephone pole at 130 mph. A life changing experience. So much so that, after a few chapters, I called Ivan.

After thanking him profusely for such a kind gift of knowledge in literature, I asked him if he would consider becoming my primary historical guide and mentor. To my great surprise, he consented.

Wow!! The many conversations we had as the months and years passed!! I only wish I could explain the essence of hours upon hours of discussing wide-ranging topics germane to ancient African history. He was extremely patient with me, allowing me to ask any and all questions ricocheting about in my little pea brain.

In the video taped presentations I had seen, Ivan was powerful and authoritative, holding the audience in the palm of his hand. In our phone conversations he was almost shy. I had to “prime the pump” with questions and then he would go into great, elegant detail with me. I’d listen and take notes.

Our friendship deepened. For instance, it was a great privilege and honor when Ivan opened up with me about some of the struggles and disrespect he was experiencing in the world of academia. I will not go into detail, but he was very sad at times by the way some powerful leaders actively sought to marginalize him. Even though we never met physically (which I regret), we became very good friends. He gave me a front row seat to his journey.

Every Christmas I would receive a signed card from him and Jacqueline.

One memorable conversation was when I asked him about his view of the Jesus of the Bible. Many Afrocentric scholars point to a number of legitimate, historically documented problems they have with how Christianity was used to justify enslavement and the Slave Trade itself.

Frankly, I wasn’t sure how Ivan would respond. There was a moment of silence and then he said quietly and with great emotion, “Oh yes, I love Jesus with all my heart.”

That meant more to me than anything else he could’ve said at that moment. He then went on to eloquently describe the impact & influence of Augustine, Cyprian, Tertullian and other 2nd to 4th century Christian scholars — especially in North Africa — long before the travels of European explorers into central Africa starting in the mid-1800s.

Ivan passed away in 2009. Thirteen years have gone by and I still miss him greatly — our conversations and our friendship…

MORE INFO: https://WhiteMansJourney.com

01/12/2022

EAR BUDS? If you wear them or know someone who does, this video is worth the next 3 minutes it takes to watch it. The technology to measure RF radiation is relatively inexpensive.

Don’t rely solely on this video. Check this for yourself, using 3rd party research instead of tech industry-funded studies. In the following link there are six 3rd party studies worth reviewing — https://emfhomeinspections.com/2021/03/09/are-radio-frequencies-harmful-to-our-health/

And, for $25-$30 there are rudimentary household radiation detectors on Amazon so that we can check it out for ourselves.

It’s your brain. Use common sense. Please be careful about any RF technology you allow near your brain for any extended period of time.

22/06/2022

BOMBSHELL that TMZ missed!!! The conversation between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard at the end of the trial has been leaked! The transcript reads something like this:

Heard: Johnny... Hey! Can you even turn around and look at me?

Depp: (bows his head)

Heard: Let's talk Johnny... Talk to me.

Depp: (Turns to his lawyer, and his lawyer shakes her head)

Heard: I have something to talk to you about.

Depp (with his head still down): I have nothing to talk to you about.

Heard: Please, look at me!

Depp: Good bye Amber.

Heard: Tell me something Johnny, do you still love me?

Depp: (Keeps quiet)

Heard: Do you still love me Johnny?

Depp (lifts his head, looks her straight in the eyes and says): “Amber, this might be the last time we ever speak, so please listen to me very carefully. If you’re searching for a solution to the education gap in America that is being adopted by schools across the country, look no further. Check out www.BH365.org

20/05/2022

Historic NFT ANNOUNCEMENT — Excited to say, that after careful research, I have signed an agreement to have Black-owned and operated “NFT Fans” become the exclusive agent for the Freeman Institute Black History Collection as it relates to NFTs, the blockchain, and the Metaverse. Click to learn more — https://earphia.io/

NFT Fans is an ever-expanding organization that is dropping my first NFTs of the famous boxer, Jack Johnson in mid-June. A Juneteenth surprise from the “Galveston Giant”.

In my collection is a 78rpm disc from 1910 with Jack Johnson Johnson describing the 5th to the 15th rounds of the boxing match on July 4th, 1910 in Reno, Nevada.

For the first time in 112 years we’ll hear Jack Johnson in his own voice describing the final 15th round of the Fight of the Century against James Jeffries. And a limited number of people will own the historic NFT segments of his voice.

Stay tuned. Throughout the rest of the year they’ll be dropping some more NFTs made from high-resolution images of the 3,000+ genuine documents and artifacts in my collection.

15/05/2022

EGO & PRESSURE -- I remember talking with NBA star, Wes Unseld (Washington Bullets center) many years ago about the stratospheric pressures experienced by pro athletes in the NBA level.

I was intrigued by what he said...which went something like this: "You must have a big ego to play at this level. If you go up against a 'Michael Jordan' you had better come at him hard, believing that his 'wheels have fallen off' and you can take him. If you don't you will end up on a poster in Wal Mart with Michael's tongue hanging out...dunking all over your bad self."

Not a pretty picture for the one being dunked on...

Even though it was hard for me, at the time, to understand why a big ego was necessary anywhere in life, his perspective has remained in my memory.

I have always agreed with Ken Blanchard’s acronym, E.G.O. = Edging God Out. Once I substituted the word "confidence" for "ego" it began to make sense to me.

CONFIDENCE can be likened to the internal pressure required to deal with external stress and pressure. Allow me to illustrate my point.

At sea level, the external atmospheric pressure on your skin is 14.7 pounds per square inch, or PSI. It’s necessary. In simple terms, this outside pressure keeps our bodies from exploding.

To match the outside pressure there are different aspects of internal pressure that keep our bodies, with its various parts, from imploding:

The pressures in various parts of the body can be measured and often provide valuable medical indicators.

• The shape of the eye is maintained by fluid pressure, called intraocular pressure.
When the circulation of fluid in the eye is blocked, it can lead to a buildup in pressure, a condition called glaucoma.

• Some of the other pressures in the body are spinal and skull pressures, bladder pressure, pressures in the skeletal system.

Our internal pressure is usually equal to the outside air pressure (the weight of the atmosphere pushing down on us.) We become uncomfortable whenever we venture away from sea level; our internal pressure is no longer equal to the ambient pressure. This is why our ears hurt when we go up in a plane or when we dive too deep underwater.

For instance, every 33 feet a diver descends the weight of the water above them increases by 15 pounds per square inch. At only a few feet below the surface, the water pressure is already too great for the muscles that expand and contract our lungs to work, making it extremely difficult for us to draw breath. A couple feet of water pressure isn’t enough to do serious damage yet, but looking at deeper levels shows how pressure affects us a little more gradually.

At a depth of around 100 feet, (remember, you’d have four times the normal pressure pushing down on you at this point), the spongy tissue of the lung begins to contract, which would leave you with only a small supply of air that was inhaled at the surface.

During their deepest dives, a diver’s heart rate can dip to only 14 beats per minute; for reference, this is about a third of the rate of a person in a coma. Most professional free divers don’t go past 400 feet deep.

Dr. William Beebe was a pioneer in deep-sea exploration. With support from the National Geographic Society and the New York Zoological Society, Beebe constructed the Bathysphere (bathy = deep). In this steel sphere he would be lowered to depths of over 2,500 feet. The thick walled sphere was designed to withstand the great pressures of the ocean deep. The sphere had two thick quartz windows for viewing. To test the windows the bathysphere, unoccupied was lowered to 3,000 feet. When the great steel ball was hauled up, Beebe said that if he had been in the bathyshpere he would’ve been decapitated and crushed.

If a human being spent a mere one second without any protective bathysphere at the bottom of the Marianna Trench (approx 36,000 feet) that person would be instantly crushed beyond recognition.

Yet, there are fish who live quite nicely at the bottom of the ocean. Their fish skin is not measurably thicker than the skin of the fish who live near the surface, yet they do not implode under the extreme pressure.

WHAT’S THE POINT of what I have communicated thus far? Glad you asked.

When you are tempted to implode under the pressure of elevation at the mountain top or under the pressure of the deep — like fish at the bottom of the ocean — the answer is not necessarily to develop a thicker skin.

After dealing with a terrible situation we don’t necessarily have to develop a protective thicker skin. We can retain a crazy sense of humor, an open heart, creativity, hope, a forgiving spirit, and giving people the initial benefit of our trust. All that can add up to confidence, the internal positive pressure we need to thrive regardless what’s happening around us.

Whether we are in a situation that feels like we’re on top of Everest or at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, you and I need the proper internal pressure (confidence) — not in our own skills, abilities or ego, but in God — to handle whatever external stress/pressure we are experiencing.

Over the years I’ve seen a number of people from all walks of life develop “big confidence” — including pro athletes.

We have very little control over what happens to us externally. However, we do have responsibility for how we allow ourselves to be filled with the Holy Spirit. And that’s when we experience true confidence internally that can match any type of external pressure at any level.

26/03/2022

SAMUEL ADJAR CROWTHER (1809 - 1891): foremost African Bishop of the 19th century...the first African Anglican Bishop in Nigeria. Crowther was born December 31st, 1809 in Africa. He was the first ever African to be ordained by the church Missionary Society who was consecrated a bishop to the Niger region of Africa.

Bishop Crowther, who translated the Bible into the Yoruba language ('Bibelii Mimo'), was 12 years old when he was kidnapped in Osoogun (along with his mother and young brother, other family members, and his entire village), by Muslim Fulani slave raiders in 1821 and sold to Portuguese slave traders.

He was rescued by a British Cruiser and was taken to a mission school where he was baptized. In 1842 he went to Church Missionary College in London. He later went back to his people in Africa and worked as a missionary from 1843 to 1851. He spent the rest of his life in evangelistic work in Niger. He established churches, elementary schools and high schools and one college. It was in Niger that he spent the rest of his life, helping to end the slave trade.

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Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther -- TIMELINE
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* 1809 Born in Osogun, Yorubaland, Nigeria
* 1821 Kidnapped and sold to slave-traders
* Rescued by the Royal Navy Anti-Slavery Patrol and taken to Freetown, Sierra Leone
* 1825 Baptised and takes the name Samuel Ajayi Crowther
* 1826 Travels to London to attend Islington Parish School
* 1827 Attends Fourah Bay College, Freetown, Sierra Leone
Marries Susan Asano Thompson at age 18 years
* 1841 Accompanies an anti-slavery mission up the River Niger
* 1842 Returns to England to be ordained as a minister
* 1843 Receives Holy Orders from the Bishop of London.
- Starts to translate the Bible into Yoruba
* 1848 Is reunited with his mother Afala, who is christened with his sister
* 1857 Writes an Ibo language primer
* 1864 Compiles a Nupe language dictionary and grammar
- Awarded a doctorate in Divinity from Oxford University and received by Queen Victoria
* Consecrated Bishop of the Niger at Canterbury Cathedral
* 1870 Personally ordains his son Dandeson in 1870 at St. Mary Islington
* 1877 Wife Susan dies, survived by two son and three daughters
* 1891 Dies from a stroke on New Year's Eve

24/02/2022

SMOKEY ROBINSON on “The View”. Here’s the video segment where he talks about Black History 365. Smokey is one of the members of our BH365 Advisory Board.

Learn more about the curriculum that’s being adopted by public/private schools across America — www.BH365.org

22/02/2022

GEORGE WASHINGTON WILLIAMS was an accomplished African American intellectual, minister, historian, journalist, lawyer, politician, freelance diplomat, and Civil War veteran. Williams was born in Pennsylvania in 1849 and died in England in 1891.

Williams joined the Union army during the Civil War at age 14, after lying about his age. After receiving a medical discharge from the army in 1868, Williams, who was barely literate, enrolled in the Newton Theological Institution in Massachusetts. He went on to be a prolific preacher and politician in Ohio, among his many other notable professional achievements.
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K-12 Black History curriculum that’s being adopted by public/private schools across America — www.BH365.org
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In 1885, Williams wrote a two volume book entitled, “A History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880”. The book was not wildly acclaimed or reviewed at the time.

In 1890 George wrote “An Open Letter to Leopold II, King of the Belgians and Sovereign of the Independent State of Congo By Colonel, The Honorable Geo. W. Williams, of the United States of America.”

Leopold was an evil man. See more and read this actual letter here: http://www.blackpast.org/george-washington-williams-open-letter-king-leopold-congo-1890 .nsSxJC6C.dpuf
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Photo of GWW taken 1889.

20/02/2022

BLACK NAPOLEON (Toussaint L'Overture) -- The Haitian Revolution was led by Toussaint L’Overture, born in 1743, in an effort to equalize master and the enslaved. His effort, which began in 1791 in Saint Domingue as an uprising of enslaved Africans, eventually created the independent state of Haiti, bringing the vile institution to the attention of the world. L’Overture also worked to improve the economy of Saint Domingue, instated paid labor on plantations, negotiated trade, and built a formidable army. Rather than war, much of L’Overture’s success was a result of carefully strategized political and military tactics to overcome his enemies.
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The years of horrendous warfare that culminated in Haiti’s birth in 1804 is one of the most inspiring and tragic chapters in the story of the Americas. For one thing, it was history’s only successful large-scale slave revolt. The roughly half a million captives who labored on the plantations of what was then the French territory of St. Domingue had made it the most lucrative colony anywhere in the world. Its rich, well irrigated soil, not yet overworked and eroded, produced more than 30 percent of the world’s sugar, more than half its coffee and a cornucopia of other crops.

When the enslaved there rose up in 1791, they sent shock waves throughout the Atlantic world. But the rebels did more than win. In five years of fighting, they also inflicted a humiliating defeat on a large invasion force from Britain, which, at war with France, wanted to seize this profitable territory for itself. And later they did the same to a vast military expedition sent by Napoleon, who vainly tried to recapture the colony and restore enslavement. The long years of race-based mass murder (which included a civil war between blacks and gens de couleur, as those of mixed race were known) left more than half the population dead or exiled, and Haiti lives with that legacy of violence still. Seldom have people anywhere fought so hard for their freedom.

Seldom, too, have they so much owed success to one extraordinary man. Toussaint Louverture, a short, wiry coachman skilled in veterinary medicine, had been freed some years before the upheaval. About 50 when the revolt began, he was one of those rare figures — Trotsky is the only other who comes to mind — who in midlife suddenly became a self-taught military genius. He welded the rebel slaves into disciplined units, got French deserters to train them, incorporated revolution-minded whites and gens de couleur into his army and used his legendary horsemanship to rush from one corner of the colony to another, cajoling, threatening, making and breaking alliances with a bewildering array of factions and warlords, and commanding his troops in one brilliant assault, feint or ambush after another. Finally lured into negotiations with one of Napoleon’s generals in 1802, he was captured and swiftly whisked off to France. Deliberately kept alone, cold and underfed deep inside a fortress in the Jura mountains, he died in April 1803.

We must not shy away from the man’s contradictions. Although a former slave, he had owned slaves himself. Although he led a great slave revolt, he was desperate to trade export crops for defense supplies and so imposed a militarized forced labor system that was slavery in all but name. He was simultaneously a devout Catholic, a Freemason and a secret practitioner of voodoo. And although the monarchs of Europe regarded him with unalloyed horror, he in effect turned himself into one of them by fashioning a constitution making himself his country’s dictator for life, with the right to name his successor.

Within Haitian culture there are no such contradictions, but simply the actions of different spirits which may possess one’s being under different circumstances and in response to vastly different needs. There is no doubt that from time to time Toussaint Louverture made room in himself for angry, vengeful spirits, as well as the more beneficent” ones. Of such contradictions are great figures made; just think of our own Thomas Jefferson — who, incidentally, ordered money and muskets sent to his fellow slave owners to suppress Toussaint’s drive for freedom, saying of it, “Never was so deep a tragedy presented to the feelings of man.”

-- PICTURES: We only have artist conceptions of what Toussaint might have looked like. Here are two such images...

www.BH365.org

18/02/2022

HENRY BIBB (1815-1854): an American author and abolitionist who was born a slave. After escaping from slavery to Canada, he founded an abolitionist newspaper, The Voice of the Fugitive. He returned to the US and lectured against slavery.
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He was born to a slave mother, Milldred Jackson, on a Kentucky plantation on May 10, 1815. He was the eldest of seven enslaved siblings, all of whom were sold one by one until the entire family was scattered. He never knew his father and was even unsure of his father's identity. But he was told his father was James Bibb, a Kentucky state senator.

In 1833, Bibb married a mulatto slave called Malinda, with whom he had one daughter, Mary Frances. Motivated by the thought of freeing himself and later rescuing his wife and daughter, he repeatedly attempted to flee.

He successfully escaped to Detroit in 1842, where he began working as an abolitionist. He persisted in searching for Malinda and his daughter until he learned that Malinda had been sold as the mistress of a white slave owner. He gave up on his dream of reuniting with his family and decided to focus on the antislavery cause.

In 1850 he published his autobiography, Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, which became one of the best-known slave narratives.

Soon after, Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, which greatly expanded federal powers to protect the interests of slaveholders and obligated Northerners to help slave owners recapture their escaped slaves.

Like many others, Bibb openly stated that he preferred death to slavery, so he fled to Canada with his second wife, Mary Miles Bibb.

He settled in Ontario and soon became a leader of the province's large African-American community thanks to his civic and political accomplishments. In 1851, Bibb founded the newspaper Voice of the Fugitive, which became a central voice of emigration advocates.

Thanks to his work as a writer and orator, Bibb was reunited with three of his brothers two years before his death. They had escaped from slavery and settled in Canada, so he interviewed them and published their stories in the Voice of the Fugitive.

Bibb died at the age of 39 in the summer of 1854.

BACKGROUND: The life and adventures of Henry Walton Bibb is among the most remarkable slave narratives.

Bibb's story is different in many ways from the widely read Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave and Harriet Jacobs' Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.

Bibb was owned by a Native American; he is one of the few ex-slave autobiographers who had labored in the Deep South (Louisiana); and he writes about folkways of the slaves.

Most significant, he is unique in exploring the importance of marriage and family to him, recounting his several trips to free his wife and child. Bibb's compelling narrative of escape and recapture, of love and renunciation, is virtually unique in the annals of the slave narrative.

Bibb offers a striking self-portrait of a man caught between two worlds, a slave past that he could not cast off or forget, and a future in freedom to which he urgently desired to commit himself.
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The Freeman Institute Black History Collection owns a scarce first edition (1849) antiquarian book, "Narrative of the Life of Henry Bibb." First published in 1849 and largely unavailable for many years. An extremely important story. 206 pages.
"I was brought up in [Kentucky]. Or, more correctly speaking ... I was flogged up; for where I should have received moral, mental, and religious instruction I received stripes without number, the object of which was to degrade and keep me in subordination. ... I have been dragged down to the lowest depths of human degradation and wretchedness, by Slaveholders." -- Henry Bibb
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12/02/2022

BILLIE HOLIDAY "Strange Fruit" -- one of the first anti-racism, anti-lynching songs. Though it was originally written by someone else as a protest song of sorts, this is one of those songs with lyrics that a singer totally owns from the start.

“Strange Fruit” was shocking to many people when it came out in 1939. Even Ms. Holiday herself was initially reluctant to sing it, fearing retribution. Though many people knew that lynchings of African-Americans in the South were common, there was much resistance to ending it, since it was an effective means of social control and political intimidation by Southern whites.

She said she always thought of her father when she sang this song; he died at age 39 after being denied medical treatment at a Texas “whites only” hospital.

Because the song was so powerful and poignant for Holiday, there were some rules when she performed it: She would close the evening with the song, the waiters would stop service when the song began, and the room would be in total darkness except for a spotlight on Billie Holiday’s face. And there would be no encore.

"Strange Fruit" was written by Abe Meeropol, AKA Lewis Allen. Lady Day's original performance here was broadcast in 1957 on the CBS program "The Sound of Jazz."

This clip was found on YouTube. There's another version (audio only) from earlier in her career, when her voice was purer and clearer, but the gravelly quality in this clip fits the song better. Her voice is strong and impressive in this clip, but just look at the incredible expressiveness in her eyes as she sings the haunting lyrics.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs
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LYRICS: "Strange Fruit" -- Sung by Billie Holiday

Southern trees bear strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root
Black bodies swinging in the Southern breeze
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees

Pastoral scene of the gallant south
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh

Here is fruit for the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop
Here is a strange and bitter crop

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EAR BUDS? If you wear them or know someone who does, this video is worth the next 3 minutes it takes to watch it. The technology to measure RF radiation is relatively inexpensive. Don’t rely solely on this video. Check this for yourself, using 3rd party research instead of tech industry-funded studies. In the following link there are six 3rd party studies worth reviewing — https://emfhomeinspections.com/2021/03/09/are-radio-frequencies-harmful-to-our-health/ And, for $25-$30 there are rudimentary household radiation detectors on Amazon so that we can check it out for ourselves. It’s your brain. Use common sense. Please be careful about any RF technology you allow near your brain for any extended period of time.

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SMOKEY ROBINSON on “The View”. Here’s the video segment where he talks about Black History 365. Smokey is one of the members of our BH365 Advisory Board. Learn more about the curriculum that’s being adopted by public/private schools across America — www.BH365.org #Smokeyrobinson #blackhistory #theview

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CONGRATULATIONS to winner of a BH365 baseball cap — Gayleen Terry!! Some of you were very close, but Gayleen is the only one who DM’ed me with the correct number: 730. My rationale behind picking that number (365 x 2 = 730). BTW, if you want some BH365 swag (T-Shirts, et al), order here — https://blackhistory365education.shop/collections/apparel This contest is over, but I have some more contests coming soon. ————— MAY the BEST GUESS WIN…pick a number between 0 and 1,000. One try per person. DM me or place your guess below. Winner of BH365 baseball cap = Guesses exact number or is closest to that number. If multiple people make the correct guess, they all win.