LAPD Officer Laverne Brown https://copblaster.com/blast/54978/lapd-officer-laverne-brown?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #LaverneBrown #LAPD #PoliceOfficer #LosAngeles #BlackHistory

On this day in 1740, South Carolina barred enslaved Black people from learning to read, earning money, and gathering, and authorized white enslavers to whip and kill them for being "rebellious."

https://calendar.eji.org/racial-injustice/may/10

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"We need a powerful sense of determination to banish the ugly blemish of racism scarring the image of America. We can, of course, try to temporize, negotiate small, inadequate changes and prolong the timetable of freedom in the hope that the narcotics of delay will dull the pain of progress. We can try, but we shall certainly fail. The shape of the world will not permit us the luxury of gradualism and procrastination." ― #MLK #BlackHistory

Who and what is left out in current surge of Canadian patriotism?

“I the youth today because they have a low tolerance for hypocrisy”

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Would love to see this on stage tonight #VEDayincontext #Unknownsoldier #dance #blackhistory
https://happeningnext.com/event/the-unknown-soldier-eid1ef02pxtfsar

"Whenever you conceptualize social justice struggles, you will always defeat your own purposes if you cannot imagine the people around whom you are struggling as equal partners." ― #AngelaDavis #BlackHistory

MLK

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How Using The N Word Disappoints Your Black Ancestors #blackhistory #news
https://youtube.com/shorts/YSGv3edTJ0I?si=8--vKURmP8wXOKPE
The only "N"ers there ever was/is are the Slave owners. The folks being called slaves are jus folks kidnapped-n-forced into what ever they are forced to do. Destroy there history-n-traumatize the shit out of im....ALL KARMA!

#alcatraz makes up for the defect in #BlackHistory.

Gloria Richardson Dandridge (born Gloria St. Clair Hayes; May 6, 1922 – July 15, 2021) was an American civil rights activist best known as the leader of the Cambridge movement, a civil rights action

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LAPD Officer Mark Obasi https://copblaster.com/blast/55463/lapd-officer-mark-obasi?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #LAPD #OfficerObasi #BlackHistory #LawEnforcement #PoliceDepartment

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Henry Street in Roanoke, Virginia

In the 1920s, this stretch of Roanoke became home to a thriving Black community.#african-american #blackhistory #section-Atlas
Henry Street

"They fought for a nation that refused to fight for them."

Letters to a Broken Nation reveals the untold stories of Afro-American soldiers in Vietnam-through the letters they were never meant to send.
Raw. Brave. Unforgettable.

https://a.co/d/dsuYdaK

Most popular hair braiding products have been tested and all contain cancer causing chemicals.

https://x.com/Joe__Bassey/status/1919533706957439108

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LAPD Sergeant Eric A. Desmore https://copblaster.com/blast/50974/lapd-sergeant-eric-a-desmore?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #LAPD #PoliceOfficer #LosAngeles #BlackHistory #LawEnforcement

#BlackMastodon #Sinners #academia #BlackHistory

Not that everything in academia has to have the word "syllabus" attached to it, as that can make for bad policy.

But this page is a good compilation of text & media resources.

https://www.aaihs.org/the-sinners-movie-syllabus/