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Grand Rapids, Mi 🛫🛫Phoenix,Az 43,
History/Govt Teacher #BlackLivesMatter
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Bonus T.B.H: Today in Black History 12/21/1988, Jesse Jackson urges the use of the term African American.
December 21, 2024 at 5:00 PM
Today in Black History 12/21/1959, Spingarn Medal was presented to Edward Kennedy ("Duke") Ellington, composer, pianist and jazz pioneer, for his contributions to the arts.
December 21, 2024 at 4:51 PM
Today in Black History 12/19/1875, Carter G.Woodson, founder of Black History Month, born in New Canton, Buckingham County, Virginia.
December 19, 2024 at 3:26 PM
Today in Black History, President Jimmy Carter appoints Andrew Young Ambassador and Chief US Delegate to the United Nations
December 17, 2024 at 5:04 AM
One of my students know me well, for Christmas they gave me this dope photo!! Idk whether to hang it in my loft or in my classroom. What y’all think?
December 16, 2024 at 3:24 PM
Today in Black History 12/13/1944, The first African American women complete officer training for the WAVES (Women's Auxiliary Volunteers for Emergency Service). They had been admitted to the corps two months earlier.
December 13, 2024 at 5:13 PM
On this day in Black History 12/12/1938, U.S. Supreme Court rules in Missouri that a state must provide equal educational facilities for Blacks within its boundaries. Lloyd Gaines, the plaintiff in the case, disappeared after the decision and was never located.
December 12, 2024 at 3:06 PM
On this day in Black History, 12/11/1872 P.B.S Pinchback became the 1st African American governor of an American state, Louisiana
December 11, 2024 at 3:20 PM
December 11, 2024 at 2:35 AM
On this day in Black History, Dr.Ralph J.Bunche is the first Black person to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950 for his work as head of a UN peace-seeking Palestine commission that negotiated an armistice between the new state of Israel and Arab nations.
December 10, 2024 at 4:07 PM
In my classroom, getting ready for the day got some Redman playing. Principal walks in and is bobbing his head asking who this is. Yeah I’ll get an email from HR guaranteed 🤣🤣🤣🤣
December 10, 2024 at 2:39 PM
Rest in Paradise Nikki Giovanni!!
December 10, 2024 at 3:48 AM
Today in Black History
Carter G. Woodson was on this day in New Canton, Virginia. He became known as the "Father of Black History." In 1926 Woodson created the first oh what is an annual celebration of African-American achievement. Once called Negro History Week but is now called Black History Month
December 9, 2024 at 5:04 PM
Today in Black History, On December 8, 1953 Thurgood Marshall, the chief legal counsel of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) gave the argument for the plaintiffs
December 8, 2024 at 9:45 PM
OSU fans: it don’t even matter anymore that we loss to TTUN where still going to the playoffs! #GoBlue 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
December 7, 2024 at 12:01 AM
Rocking my championship gear today #GoBlue
December 6, 2024 at 6:17 PM
Today in Black History, 12/6/1849: Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery in Maryland, summer. She returned to the South nineteen times and brought out more than three hundred slaves. #blacksky
December 6, 2024 at 2:42 PM
Have my honors students working on a shoebox themed project dealing with social issues and movements. I must say I’m impressed with a few of the submissions thus far!! #Blacksky
December 5, 2024 at 10:13 PM
Today in Black History, 12/5/1955 Historic bus boycott began in Montgomery. At a mass meeting at the Holt Street Baptist Church Martin Luther King Jr. was elected president of the boycott organization. Asa Philip Randolph and Willard S. Townsend elected vice-president of the AFL-CIO.
December 5, 2024 at 5:37 PM
Today in Black History, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. was founded on December 4, 1906 on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York by seven college men who recognized the need for a strong bond of Brotherhood among African descendants in this country.
December 4, 2024 at 2:27 PM
Today in Black History 12/3/1847 Frederick Douglass, along with Martin R Delaney, started "The North Star",an anti-slavery paper.The purpose of The North Star was to end slavery,promote equality and advancement for African Americans, and promote the moral and intellectual improvement of Black people
December 3, 2024 at 8:30 PM
Makes sense 🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️🤷🏾‍♂️
December 3, 2024 at 1:16 PM
December 2, 2024 at 9:23 PM
On this day in Black History, 12/2/1987, Novelist James Baldwin dies in France. Baldwin was known for his work as a writer and civil rights activist who explored race, politics, and sexuality in his novels, plays, essays, and poems.
December 2, 2024 at 2:07 PM
Just a quick PSA:
#GoBlue
December 1, 2024 at 4:55 PM