A man whose mentor was jailed for "getting ahead too fast" and who went on to build his own hospital anyway. The Dr. Milton D. Quigless, Sr. Story is the American history your textbooks skipped. #BookSky #BlackHistory #MemoirReads buff.ly/3TNFjpR
The #banjo’s complex heritage: an instrument born of both oppression and empowerment. Drawing on deep historical research and personal experience, Rhiannon Giddens shows how #music can inspire #resistance, resilience, and transformation.
#MusicSky #BlackHistory
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1856: Educator and reformer Booker T. Washington, who was the first president and principal developer of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (now Tuskegee University), was born in Virginia. #BlackHistory
Legendary basketball coach John McLendon was born on this day in Hiawatha, Kansas. McLendon is remembered for his role coaching NCCU against Duke in "the secret game" a closed door scrimmage in 1944 that defied Jim Crow laws. 🏀
#blackhistory #basketball #secretgame #nccu #history #durham
Committed to Jail, OF Harrison county, State of Texas, on the 10th day of this month, a negro man, who says his name is Frank, dark complexion, about twenty-five years old, and about six feet high. Said negro says he belongs to Eldridge Mallard, near Rusk, Cherokee county, Texas. The owner of said negro, will come forward, prove his property, pay charges, and take him away, or he will be dealt with as the law requires. S. R. PERRY, Sheriff. By J. M. CURTIS, Deputy. March 20, 1852. v3n38-tf
In March 1852, I was jailed in Harrison County, TX. Caught between Mallard's property in Cherokee County and a law that gave me no name, only a price. The sheriff advertised for Mallard, but no one came. The county decided my fate. My name was FRANK. #slavery #TX #BlackHistory
Not the biggest college basketball fan but this stuck out to me as maddening.
Dawn Staley’s remarks on rival’s outburst reflect a restraint familiar to Black women. - #WomensSports #NCAA #BlackHistory
Freaknik. Part of Atlanta and HBCU history. Full episode 26-04-03 at youtu.be/KSrmhAFbv9o
@druski @iamdesibanks @80ktwinz @dcyoungfly @louuuyoung #freaknik #atlanta #fortheculture #hbcu #hbcupride #blackexcellence #hbcugrad #blackgirlmagic #blackhistory #hbcuhomecoming
Growing list of those born or died on April 4 in any year
Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American memoirist, essayist, poet, and civil rights activist.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#blackwomen #blackhistory #blacksky #addtoblacksky
Book cover of We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance by Kellie Carter Jackson with the title written in black and red, and says “read by the author” at the bottom. There is a cartoon or animated style picture of a Black woman with short close cropped hair facing the reader and holding a gun casually across her hips with both hands, she is wearing a long white dress with sleeve and a collar that wraps High around her neck
💙📚Just finished w/ @hoopladigital.bsky.social :
We Refuse:A Forceful History of Black Resistance by Kellie Carter Jackson
The type of educational & pro-social justice combination book we need right now. Must read.
#booksky #nonfiction #blackhistory #kelliecarterjackson #americanhistory #booklovers
Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. #BlackHistory en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_An...
That's why you could create a white middle class with [Black] folk gaining no access to it. And then they create these housing projects that go all the way up to pack folk in, like sardines.
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#DJPremier #Fab5Freddy #LeshanLewis #blackhistory #blackmusic #jabarijones
Growing list of those born or died on April 5 in any year
Randolph Evans (1961–1976) was a 15-year-old ninth-grade boy at Franklin K. Lane High School in Brooklyn. He was shot and [executed] by NYPD [pig] Robert Torsney on November 25, 1976.
#blackwomen #blackhistory #blacksky #addtoblacksky
1913: Muddy Waters, American blues guitarist ("Hoochie Coochie Man"), born in Jug's Corner (Issaquena County) or Rolling Fork, Mississippi #BlackHistory
1928: Maya Angelou—a poet, writer, and actress known for her powerful memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings—was born in St. Louis, Missouri. #BlackHistory #WomensHistory
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[Alt: Captain Victor Glover a caramel brown Black man in the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle capsule on the Artemis III mission sits among multiple consules & controls in only long navy shorts while liberally applying moisturizer, fellow clothed crew member in the foreground reads]
Der wohl bekannteste Sprecher der amerikanischen Bürgerrechtsbewegung und Vertreter des gewaltfreien Kampfes gegen Unterdrückung und soziale Ungerechtigkeit gegen Black Americans wird bei einem Attentat in Memphis erschossen. Täter war ein mehrfach vorbestrafter Rassist. In über 110 Städten der USA kam es daraufhin zu Krawallen und Unruhen. Martin Luther King wurde am 9. April 1968 in Atlanta beigesetzt. 50.000 Menschen folgten dem Trauerzug.
4.4.1968 Martin Luther King jr. bei einem Attentat in Memphis erschossen. Täter war ein mehrfach vorbestrafter Rassist.
#OTD #OnthisDay #Kalenderblatt #BlackHistory #Geschichte #GeschichtsunterrichtOTD
Born today: American author, poet, civil rights activist and actress Maya Angelou was born 4 April 1928. Read about her at infinite-women.com/women/maya-angelou
#poetry #poet #writer #writers #writing #activist #activism #civilrights #history #womenshistory #blackhistory #blackhistory365
The Lone Ranger wasn’t just fiction—he was inspired by Bass Reeves, one of the Wild West’s greatest lawmen. 🐎
Host Dom Flemons uncovers the real stories behind outlaws, legends, and myths in The Real Wild West, streaming on #CuriosityStream.
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#TheRealWildWest #BlackHistory #AmericanHistory
History doesn’t have to be deleted to be useless.
It just has to be simplified enough that people can’t connect it to the present.
That’s how power protects itself.
#BlackHistory
#CivilRights
#HistoryMatters
#SystemicInequality
#KnowYourHistory
Kehinde Wiley, "The Three Graces (Coumba, Mariama, Rokhaya)," oil on canvas, 2023; Stephen Friedman Gallery, London. #kehindewiley #art #modernart #contemporaryart #blackhistory #blackculture #africanamerican #paintings #arte #museum #artgallery
Come on over to my YouTube channel called The Front Room — a space for Black history, stories, people, places, and events that shaped the world around us.
If you’d like to follow along, you’re welcome to visit and subscribe.
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‘Where We Encounter Segregation, We Create Congregation’: East Austin’s ‘Negro City’ Revisited: A travel journalist’s recent walk through East Austin has brought attention to a powerful piece of American history, after her… #EastAustin #AmericanHistory #Segregation #BlackHistory #TravelJournalism
From Newtown, Queens to Howard University, John Bunyan Reeve helped shape Black education and Presbyterian leadership for generations. Watch this short video on his remarkable journey through faith, teaching, and institution-building. #BlackHistory #HowardUniversity
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1928: Earl Lloyd, 1st African American basketball player in the NBA, born in Alexandria, Virginia #BlackHistory
RAN-AWAY FROM the subscribers, on the night of the 14th inst., at Cedar Creek Mills, eight miles Northwest of Fuller's old stand in Washington county, a negro man named Cyrus. Said negro is about 25 years old, 5 feet 11 inches high, heavy stout built, black, quick spoken and rather polite when addressed. Had on when he left a dark kersey monkey jacet and striped hickory shirt, but took with him two or three suits of clothing, among which was a black or dark colored cloth frock coat; other articles not recollected. The boy Cyrus was brought from Alabama by a Mr. Moore to Texas and may try to get back to Alabama, though he is a shrewd fellow and may attempt to make his way into Mexico. A liberal reward will be paid for the apprehension and delivery of said boy to us, or for securing him in some jail, so that we get him. Address J. L. Farquhar, at Washington, or William H. McCutchen at Long Point post office, Washington county, texas. March 20. FARQUHAR & McCUTCHEN.
In March 1852, I fled Farquhar's plantation in Washington County, TX. They thought I'd head back to Alabama, but I had other plans. Run south, cross Rio Grande, towards Mexico where I can be free. I packed three suits. I was ready. My name was CYRUS. #slavery #TX #BlackHistory
Take time to remind yourselves, We are the Blueprint. 🤍💙
#Blackpeople #Blackartist #BlackHistory (Black History should not just only be fucking month)
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Edward Regan Murphy (born Apr 3, 1961) is a US comedian, actor, and singer. He had his breakthrough as a stand-up comic before gaining stardom for his film roles
Sarah Lois Vaughan (Mar 27, 1924 – Apr 3, 1990) was a US jazz singer and pianist
#blackwomen #blackhistory #blacksky #addtoblacksky
The trope that Europeans brought development and modernization to Africa is a lie they’ve told for a century everywhere they went they burned down , bombed or destroyed ancient buildings, holy sites, and cities. #blackhistory #ghanatiktok🇬🇭 #kumasi #plumbing #ghana
Growing list of those born or died on April 3 in any year
Carter Godwin Woodson (December 19, 1875 – April 3, 1950) was an American historian, author, journalist, and the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and
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