I stand with Ukraine. 🇺🇦

From @jcresists: things you might not know about Kendrick Lamar:
-does not drink or do drugs.
-winner of Grammy, Emmy, American Music, and Brit awards.
-a Pulitzer Prize winner
-was a straight A student in HS
-still with his HS sweetheart
-is heavily involved in philanthropy.

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BHM 6: hopefully this link works! The resistance of stolen Africans aboard the enslaver’s ships.
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BHM 5: I took a Slave Narratives class in college, it was truly life changing. The class primarily focused on the WPA Slave Narratives. “between 1936-38, the WPA Federal Writers' Project (FWP) sent out-of-work writers in 17 states to interview ordinary people to write down their life stories.”

BHM Fact 4: While Rosa Parks became the famous face of this Civil Rights Protest in action, nine months prior, 15 year old Claudette Colvin was arrested in Montgomery, AL for refusing to give her seat up to a white woman on a segregated bus. She was later instrumental in the SC case Browder vs Gale.

Picture it: America, 1773. Phillis Wheatley becomes the first published Black American poet while enslaved. She was 20 years old.

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Black History (re: American history) was made again TODAY! When Queen Bey won Best Country Album at the Grammy’s, making her the first Black artist to do so. And, bonus full-circle moment: she was given the award by Taylor Alison Swift. About time we get some joy outta 2025!

I’ve been trying to figure out what I wanted my first post to be because I want to be intentional in everything I say and do. So, on this day, February 1, 2025, my first post coming at you:
It doesn’t matter who says what about what: Black History is American History.