that reshaped battles and saved lives. What failed them wasn’t bravery. It was the nation’s willingness to acknowledge it.
Remember his name:
First Lieutenant John Robert Fox.
A hero in life.
A symbol of truth restored.🇺🇲
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Remember his name:
First Lieutenant John Robert Fox.
A hero in life.
A symbol of truth restored.🇺🇲
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#BlackHistoryMonth
February 19, 2026 at 3:17 AM
that reshaped battles and saved lives. What failed them wasn’t bravery. It was the nation’s willingness to acknowledge it.
Remember his name:
First Lieutenant John Robert Fox.
A hero in life.
A symbol of truth restored.🇺🇲
#KeepItWoke
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#BlackHistoryMonth
Remember his name:
First Lieutenant John Robert Fox.
A hero in life.
A symbol of truth restored.🇺🇲
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#BlackHistoryMonth
After Jackson's death, the Bloody Sunday march took place on March 7, 1965. In August of that year, President Johnson signed into law the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Remember his name: Jimmie Lee Jackson. Rest in power.✊🏾
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Remember his name: Jimmie Lee Jackson. Rest in power.✊🏾
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February 17, 2026 at 12:51 AM
After Jackson's death, the Bloody Sunday march took place on March 7, 1965. In August of that year, President Johnson signed into law the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Remember his name: Jimmie Lee Jackson. Rest in power.✊🏾
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Remember his name: Jimmie Lee Jackson. Rest in power.✊🏾
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produced a trial record, and that lived mostly in fragile, non‑digitized sources. The scarcity of information isn’t a sign the event was small; it’s a sign of how thoroughly it was erased.
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the logo for the united states marine corps is shown on a black background
ALT: the logo for the united states marine corps is shown on a black background
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produced a trial record, and that lived mostly in fragile, non‑digitized sources. The scarcity of information isn’t a sign the event was small; it’s a sign of how thoroughly it was erased.
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#BlackHistoryMonth2026
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the policing of Black expression. The story of the USS Sumter Three is part of a larger, often-erased history of Black service members resisting discrimination — and paying the price for it.
Their courage deserves to be remembered. ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
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Their courage deserves to be remembered. ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
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February 15, 2026 at 6:30 AM
the policing of Black expression. The story of the USS Sumter Three is part of a larger, often-erased history of Black service members resisting discrimination — and paying the price for it.
Their courage deserves to be remembered. ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
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Their courage deserves to be remembered. ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
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Tragically, Sylvia’s life was cut short in a car accident in 1983 at age 34. Though her time was brief, her legacy as the woman who opened the door for every Black woman in federal law enforcement today is eternal.
Remember Sylvia.🇺🇲
May she rest in power.🙏🏽💔
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Remember Sylvia.🇺🇲
May she rest in power.🙏🏽💔
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February 8, 2026 at 11:11 AM
Tragically, Sylvia’s life was cut short in a car accident in 1983 at age 34. Though her time was brief, her legacy as the woman who opened the door for every Black woman in federal law enforcement today is eternal.
Remember Sylvia.🇺🇲
May she rest in power.🙏🏽💔
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Remember Sylvia.🇺🇲
May she rest in power.🙏🏽💔
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This wasn't just a walk; it was the birth of modern civil rights activism. It shifted the NAACP from a legal-only group to a mass-movement powerhouse. It paved the way for the 1963 March on Washington and the protests we have today.
We can learn from this.
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We can learn from this.
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February 3, 2026 at 10:15 AM
This wasn't just a walk; it was the birth of modern civil rights activism. It shifted the NAACP from a legal-only group to a mass-movement powerhouse. It paved the way for the 1963 March on Washington and the protests we have today.
We can learn from this.
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We can learn from this.
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If you’ve never heard of Provident Hospital, that’s not an accident. Black medical history has been systematically erased.
But we’re bringing it back into the light — one thread at a time.
Honor the legacy & share.🏥
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But we’re bringing it back into the light — one thread at a time.
Honor the legacy & share.🏥
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February 1, 2026 at 2:27 PM
If you’ve never heard of Provident Hospital, that’s not an accident. Black medical history has been systematically erased.
But we’re bringing it back into the light — one thread at a time.
Honor the legacy & share.🏥
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But we’re bringing it back into the light — one thread at a time.
Honor the legacy & share.🏥
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Whether you view it as a masterpiece of liberation or a polarizing text, The N****r Bible remains a window into a time when thinkers were fighting to 'decolonize' the mind and build a world on their own terms.
This is a must read, my friends. I highly recommend it.📖
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This is a must read, my friends. I highly recommend it.📖
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January 30, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Whether you view it as a masterpiece of liberation or a polarizing text, The N****r Bible remains a window into a time when thinkers were fighting to 'decolonize' the mind and build a world on their own terms.
This is a must read, my friends. I highly recommend it.📖
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This is a must read, my friends. I highly recommend it.📖
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in textbooks. But the students who walked that gauntlet of violence showed extraordinary courage. Their story deserves to be remembered.✊🏾
Please watch this heartbreaking video featuring some of those brave students. 😔
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Please watch this heartbreaking video featuring some of those brave students. 😔
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1966 THROWBACK: "WHITE PEOPLE BEAT UP BLACK CHILDREN WHO JUST WANT TO GO TO SCHOOL" (PART 1 OF 2)
YouTube video by Hezakya Newz & Films
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January 25, 2026 at 12:26 PM
in textbooks. But the students who walked that gauntlet of violence showed extraordinary courage. Their story deserves to be remembered.✊🏾
Please watch this heartbreaking video featuring some of those brave students. 😔
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Please watch this heartbreaking video featuring some of those brave students. 😔
#KeepItWoke
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On Dec 21, 1956, the buses were finally integrated. The boycott proved that "ordinary" people have extraordinary power when they move in unison. It wasn't just a win for Montgomery; it was the blueprint for the entire Civil Rights Movement.
And that's how it's done.✊🏾☮️
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And that's how it's done.✊🏾☮️
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January 19, 2026 at 3:33 PM
On Dec 21, 1956, the buses were finally integrated. The boycott proved that "ordinary" people have extraordinary power when they move in unison. It wasn't just a win for Montgomery; it was the blueprint for the entire Civil Rights Movement.
And that's how it's done.✊🏾☮️
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And that's how it's done.✊🏾☮️
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Why does this matter today? Because it shows how legal "logic" persists. When one system of control ended, the architecture of the 1740 Act was recycled into the Black Codes, then Jim Crow.
History isn't just back then—it's the foundation of now.
True story.✊🏿✊🏻✊🏾
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History isn't just back then—it's the foundation of now.
True story.✊🏿✊🏻✊🏾
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January 18, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Why does this matter today? Because it shows how legal "logic" persists. When one system of control ended, the architecture of the 1740 Act was recycled into the Black Codes, then Jim Crow.
History isn't just back then—it's the foundation of now.
True story.✊🏿✊🏻✊🏾
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History isn't just back then—it's the foundation of now.
True story.✊🏿✊🏻✊🏾
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rarely mentioned, and often sanitized. History doesn’t disappear — it gets buried. And every time we dig it back up, we get a clearer picture of the systems we’re still living with today.
True story. ✊🏿
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True story. ✊🏿
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1971 SPECIAL REPORT:" CAMP LEJEUNE RACIAL RE-EDUCATION CLASS"
YouTube video by Hezakya Newz & Films
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rarely mentioned, and often sanitized. History doesn’t disappear — it gets buried. And every time we dig it back up, we get a clearer picture of the systems we’re still living with today.
True story. ✊🏿
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True story. ✊🏿
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where a group of Black and White locals physically fought off a slaveholder & his party who were trying to capture four men. The Act backfired. By bringing the brutality of slavery to Northern doorsteps, it radicalized a generation.
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Astounding Story of Freedom Seekers Who Fought Back In Rural Pennsylvania
Freedom seekers in Pennsylvania resisted an attempt to capture them and the violent incident created a national uproar in 1851.
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January 4, 2026 at 12:45 PM
where a group of Black and White locals physically fought off a slaveholder & his party who were trying to capture four men. The Act backfired. By bringing the brutality of slavery to Northern doorsteps, it radicalized a generation.
✊🏿✊🏻
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Lawsuits were filed decades later, but dismissed due to statutes of limitations. The city of Philadelphia gave an apology in 2022, but it will never heal the pain and suffering.
Corporations got rich.
Black test subjects got nothing.
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Corporations got rich.
Black test subjects got nothing.
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The Philadelphia Experiments
How an enterprising doctor, an elite university, and negligent public officials turned a city prison system into the largest human research factory in America.
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January 1, 2026 at 3:06 PM
Lawsuits were filed decades later, but dismissed due to statutes of limitations. The city of Philadelphia gave an apology in 2022, but it will never heal the pain and suffering.
Corporations got rich.
Black test subjects got nothing.
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Corporations got rich.
Black test subjects got nothing.
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military racialized it. This history matters because it shows how deeply scientific racism shaped American institutions — even lifesaving ones.
Blood is blood.
The only thing that ever needed separating was racism from science.
True story.
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Blood is blood.
The only thing that ever needed separating was racism from science.
True story.
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December 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
military racialized it. This history matters because it shows how deeply scientific racism shaped American institutions — even lifesaving ones.
Blood is blood.
The only thing that ever needed separating was racism from science.
True story.
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Blood is blood.
The only thing that ever needed separating was racism from science.
True story.
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just shaped by big speeches or landmark rulings. Sometimes it’s shaped by small acts of humanity that ripple outward.
A beer commercial shouldn’t have to be groundbreaking.
But in 1948, it was.
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A beer commercial shouldn’t have to be groundbreaking.
But in 1948, it was.
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youtu.be/tngNbodIq_M?...
RARE 1948 One of The First Ever African Ameican TV Commercials
YouTube video by VintageTVCommercials
youtu.be
December 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
just shaped by big speeches or landmark rulings. Sometimes it’s shaped by small acts of humanity that ripple outward.
A beer commercial shouldn’t have to be groundbreaking.
But in 1948, it was.
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A beer commercial shouldn’t have to be groundbreaking.
But in 1948, it was.
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Remembering the Banner Mine tragedy means remembering the men whose lives were erased twice — first by the system that exploited them, and then by the history that forgot them.
We will remember them—because history erased them.
We have to. 😢🕊
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We will remember them—because history erased them.
We have to. 😢🕊
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December 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Remembering the Banner Mine tragedy means remembering the men whose lives were erased twice — first by the system that exploited them, and then by the history that forgot them.
We will remember them—because history erased them.
We have to. 😢🕊
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We will remember them—because history erased them.
We have to. 😢🕊
#KeepItWoke
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From W.C. Handy’s pen to the electric roar of the Chitlin Circuit, the Blues was built on Black resilience. It turned a regional struggle into a global language. If you want to understand American music, start with the Blues.
Respect the roots!
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Respect the roots!
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December 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
From W.C. Handy’s pen to the electric roar of the Chitlin Circuit, the Blues was built on Black resilience. It turned a regional struggle into a global language. If you want to understand American music, start with the Blues.
Respect the roots!
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Respect the roots!
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ADDENDUM: More on the legendary Paradise Garage and a list of the artists who performed there here: 👇🏾
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Paradise Garage - Wikipedia
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There is so much to unpack when speaking of these three legends who changed the dance scene that resonates today. They made everyone feel loved and accepted, no matter anyone's race or gender.
Keep dancing, family!💃🕺🏾🌈
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Keep dancing, family!💃🕺🏾🌈
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Should Have Been There: The Inside Story of Paradise Garage
The staffers of Paradise Garage look back on the music, dancing, drugs and solidarity that made it NYC’s greatest club.
www.timeout.com
December 20, 2025 at 8:59 PM
There is so much to unpack when speaking of these three legends who changed the dance scene that resonates today. They made everyone feel loved and accepted, no matter anyone's race or gender.
Keep dancing, family!💃🕺🏾🌈
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Keep dancing, family!💃🕺🏾🌈
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Today, its legacy lives on in places like the Apollo Theater and in every festival or stage that celebrates Black creativity. The Chitlin’ Circuit wasn’t just entertainment — it was resilience, and the foundation of modern American music. 🎷🥁🎸
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December 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Today, its legacy lives on in places like the Apollo Theater and in every festival or stage that celebrates Black creativity. The Chitlin’ Circuit wasn’t just entertainment — it was resilience, and the foundation of modern American music. 🎷🥁🎸
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during the period when wood and coal was used.
Historians place Parker's death around 1920.
The photo is of a British White woman who was born five years after the filing of Parker’s patent who had the same name.🙄
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Historians place Parker's death around 1920.
The photo is of a British White woman who was born five years after the filing of Parker’s patent who had the same name.🙄
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February 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
during the period when wood and coal was used.
Historians place Parker's death around 1920.
The photo is of a British White woman who was born five years after the filing of Parker’s patent who had the same name.🙄
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Historians place Parker's death around 1920.
The photo is of a British White woman who was born five years after the filing of Parker’s patent who had the same name.🙄
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My aunt Liz was a Black Rosie. That's her in the middle with her sisters, including my grandma. She continued her work at the Brooklyn Navy Yard well into the early 1980s until her retirement. #RIP Aunt Liz 🙏🏽❤️🕊
Your history lesson for today.
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Your history lesson for today.
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March 17, 2025 at 11:11 AM
My aunt Liz was a Black Rosie. That's her in the middle with her sisters, including my grandma. She continued her work at the Brooklyn Navy Yard well into the early 1980s until her retirement. #RIP Aunt Liz 🙏🏽❤️🕊
Your history lesson for today.
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Your history lesson for today.
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Eventually, the brutality and violence associated with chain gang labor in the United States gained worldwide attention. The chain gang was abolished in every state by the l950s. But, as always, racists found a workaround.
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The Chains of Slavery Still Exist in Mass Incarceration
The 13 th Amendment may have outlawed the enslavement of Black people, but the United States continues to devise new ways to uphold the racist hierarchies that slavery was founded on and to restrict t...
www.vera.org
January 16, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Eventually, the brutality and violence associated with chain gang labor in the United States gained worldwide attention. The chain gang was abolished in every state by the l950s. But, as always, racists found a workaround.
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www.vera.org/news/the-cha...
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Cameron continued her work until her retirement in 1934. In 1942, the Occidental Mission Home was renamed the Donaldina Cameron House.
The "Beloved Mother" of Chinatown passed away in 1968 at the age of 98.
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#WomensHistoryMonth
The "Beloved Mother" of Chinatown passed away in 1968 at the age of 98.
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#WomensHistoryMonth
March 8, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Cameron continued her work until her retirement in 1934. In 1942, the Occidental Mission Home was renamed the Donaldina Cameron House.
The "Beloved Mother" of Chinatown passed away in 1968 at the age of 98.
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#WomensHistoryMonth
The "Beloved Mother" of Chinatown passed away in 1968 at the age of 98.
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#WomensHistoryMonth