Barack And Michelle Obama In Their Living Room With Their Newborn Daughter Malia, 1998.

"American culture... is Black culture to a larger degree." - Barack Obama

Many know Jesse Owens as the elite Olympic athlete that humiliated Hitler by dominating the 1936 Berlin Olympics, but did you know that after the Olympics, Owens had a hard time finding work?

One way he earned money was by racing a horse at events.

"Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States." —W.E.B. Du Bois

Bass Reeves, the real Lone Ranger.

Bass Reeves was the first Black American commissioned to serve as a deputy marshal west of the Mississippi River. He brought to justice over 3,000 criminals and killed fourteen outlaws during his years as a marshal.

Harlem Debutante Ball, 1950's

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Slave hunters would patrol the southern border for escapees, led by the Texas Rangers but the Mexican army would be there waiting for them (the slave hunters) to turn them away.

Descendants of slaves who escaped across the southern border observe Texas’s emancipation holiday with their own unique traditions in the village of Nacimiento.

To date, many Black Mexicans from the Texas area retrace a portion of the same route their African American ancestors followed in 1850 when they escaped slavery.

Did you know that Juneteenth is also celebrated in a part of Mexico?

Nacimiento Mexico was once home to thousands who escaped slavery in the US. As many as 10,000 slaves followed a clandestine Southern Underground Railroad to Mexico.

Mexico abolished slavery in 1829. Enslaved people were escaping to Mexico. The U.S. tried to get Mexico to sign a fugitive slave treaty to return escapees but Mexico refused to sign such a treaty, insisting that enslaved people were free once they set foot on Mexican soil.

On this day in 1916, Marcus Garvey, the father of the black nationalist and pan african movements, arrived in America from Jamaica.

Martin Luther King’s mother was also assassinated 6 years after his death by a deranged man who believed Christianity was harming Black Americans while she played the organ in church.

He was sentenced to death but this was commuted to life imprisonment because the Kings opposed capital punishment.

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13 years ago today, at only 17, an unarmed Trayvon Martin was shot dead by George Zimmerman, fueling a movement. #BlackLivesMatter

Happy Birthday to the late civil rights activist, Rosa Parks! In 1955, she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger and got arrested for violating the city’s racial segregation laws.

John Morton Finney was a Buffalo soldier who fought in World War 1, earned 11 degrees and practiced law until he was 106 years old.

He was believed to be the longest practicing attorney in the United States. #BlackHistoryMonth

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Whoopi Goldberg and her mother, 1986.

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Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day!

On this day in 1929, Civil Rights Movement leader, Martin Luther King Jr. was born. Gone, but not forgotten.

Rest in Power.

Happy birthday to the late Afeni Shakur. A political activist, Black Panther, philanthropist and Mother to the Late Tupac Shakur.

On this day in 1961, Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes, the first black students enrolled at the University of Georgia, were suspended.

This was after thousands of white people violently rioted. They were initially denied enrollment but a federal judge ordered their admission

It is so important for you and me to spend time today learning something about the past so that we can better understand the present, analyze it and then do something about it.” —Malcolm X

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