For those of you who are unfamiliar, the image above is a diagram of how my ancestors (Africans) were stacked in the hull of slave ships leaving West Africa traveling to America during the Middle Passage. Over 100,000,000 (One Hundred Million) Africans died in route from Africa to America on slave ships.

Chuck Berry

🕊 Rest in Power 🕊

Public Servant | Breaker of Glass Ceilings | Colin Powell

“There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.”

“Racism is both overt and covert. It takes two, closely related forms: individual whites acting against individual blacks, and acts by the total white community against the black community. We call these individual racism and institutional racism. The first consists of overt acts by individuals, which cause death, injury or the violent destruction of property. This type can be recorded by television cameras; it can frequently be observed in the process of commission. The second type is less overt, far more subtle, less identifiable in terms of specific individuals committing the acts. But it is no less destructive of human life. The second type originates in the operation of established and respected forces in the society, and thus receives far less public condemnation than the first type. When white terrorists bomb a black church and kill five black children, that is an act of individual racism, widely deplored by most segments of the society. But when in that same city - Birmingham, Alabama - five hundred black babies die each year because of the lack of proper food, shelter and medical facilities, and thousands more are destroyed and maimed physically, emotionally and intellectually because of conditions of poverty and discrimination in the black community, that is a function of institutional racism. When a black family moves into a home in a white neighborhood and is stoned, burned or routed out, they are victims of an overt act of individual racism which many people will condemn - at least in words. But it is institutional racism that keeps black people locked in dilapidated slum tenements, subject to the daily prey of exploitative slumlords, merchants, loan sharks and discriminatory real estate agents. The society either pretends it does not know of this latter situation, or is in fact incapable of doing anything meaningful about it.” 

-Stokely Carmichael, Black Power: The Politics Of Liberation

Legendary...✊🏿👑✊🏿

Attendees sing "We Shall Overcome" during the dedication ceremony for the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial in Washington, D.C., 10/16/2011

Series: Presidential Photographs, 1/20/2009 - 1/20/2017

Collection: Records of the White House Photo Office (Obama Administration), 1/20/2009 - 1/20/2017

Image description: Harry Johnson, Sr; President and Mrs. Obama; Vice President and Dr. Biden; Interior Sec. Ken Salazar; and Herman "Skip" Mason stand in front of the light granite of the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial with their arms linked, and sing.

Fun fact!

The Dora Milaje in Black Panther are based on the Dahomey Amazons, who were the only documented OFFICIAL, FRONTLINE, COMBAT-BASED all-female military unit to this day.

Black women keep winning 😌

(Source) (BTW!!! This is an archive of international black/African history that's expands daily! I highly recommend you take a peek 👀)

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For all of my black cinephiles and history nerds out there, I feel like this is right up our alley. The website is super informative and user friendly, and not only has popular black films but vintage footage dating back to the silent film era.

Tiktok is on FIRE calling out the white supremacy we witnessed today!!!!

Cartoon Network:

Tell the Whole Story | The Crystal Gems Say Be Anti-Racist

[ID: Digital art of six Black people of varying body types, hairstyles, outfits, and skin tones. They are gathered together and holding hands in a manner that crosses around them and between them. They all share close-eyed, serene expressions. Around them flows a band of color, featuring a gradient soft purple and peach. The background is periwinkle blue. End ID]

My Peoples

It’s Black History Month y’all!

May 31st marks the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Massacre.

Happy Pride eve! We are putting the finishing touches on our first episode for pride month, talking about activist Simon Nkoli and the first South African Pride!

[Image: Simon Nkoli, a black South African man, wearing a shirt with a pink triangle which reads “No liberation without gay-lesbian liberation”]

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fun fact that many people do not know, princess tiana is real!

y’all saying Black Lives Matter for one situation just don’t sit right with me, it goes beyond police brutality!!!

it’s Black women dying at a higher rate during childbirth. it’s Black people being exposed to COVID-19 at a higher rate. it's about Black people like Henrietta Lacks being taken advantage of in thee medical field, but are still being denied healthcare. it's Black people being denied job opportunities due to the name on their applications. it's Black people being denied into higher institutions despite having the same qualifications as their non-Black counterparts. it's Black people having their creations and ideas stolen without being given credit simply because a good percentage of society still believes in 2021, mind you, that Black people are not creative enough or smart enough or skilled enough. it's the decrease of federal funding for schools in predominantly Black neighborhoods due to gerrymandering and redlining. it's Black people being denied housing due to laws in NUMEROUS STATES that inform realtors to refrain from selling black people those homes. it's the kidnapping and murders of Black people that don't make it on the news. it's Black trans women having a life expectancy of 23 YEARS OLD. it's Black people, especially Black trans people, being incarcerated at disproportionately high rates. it's Black people with criminal records who can't find jobs to turn their lives around because they're stuck in one spot after being released from the incarceration system. it's every single Black life that has been lost to racially motivated killings, whether it be the police or by citizens. It's about being the foundation for electing a new President of the United States.

It's about knowing that even though there is still a lot of work to do as a nation, electing someone who values the lives of people over the lives of bank accounts is a step in the right direction.

Black Lives Matter is not just about protesting against police brutality. this is deeper than that.

All Black Lives Matter. Not just the ones you specifically are a fan of. Not just in death, but in life as well.

BLACK LIVES MATTER.

24/7, 365. Not just during February.

BLACK LIVES MATTER.