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I've been listening to the Welcome to Night Vale audiobook for the past few hours. If you're a fan of the podcast like me, I swear this is the best way to consume it. It's so good and weird! #WelcometoNightVale

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Whenever I hear this song, it always reminds me of the movie Killer of Sheep by Charles Burnett. In the scene, the couple is slowing dancing in their living room in front of a window. #DinahWashington #KillerofSheep #CharlesBurnett

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Rest in Power Grace Lee Boggs. Thank you. #GraceLeeBoggs.

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Duke Ellington listening to Ella Fitzgerald. #DukeEllington #EllaFitzgerald

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Fraggle Rock! My favorite was Red! #JimHenson

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Jim Henson and so many of our favorites. #JimHenson

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Today is the birthday of Jim Henson, born in Greenville, MS in 1936. Thanks for the memories! Always missed. #JimHenson

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Today is the birthday of the giant. John William Coltrane. #BlackHistory365 #KnowYourHistory #JohnColtrane

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Word...

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52 years ago today these young ladies were taken from their families and the world in an act of domestic terrorism. Remember their names. Addie Mae Collins, Carol Denise McNair, Carole Robertson and Cynthia Wesley. #BlackHistory365 #KnowYourHistory #4LittleGirls

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Word of the day...

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A scan from Jet Magazine. While visiting family in Money, Mississippi, 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, is brutally murdered for allegedly "flirting with a white woman" four days earlier. His assailants–the white woman’s husband and her brother–made Emmett carry a 75-pound cotton-gin fan to the bank of the Tallahatchie River and ordered him to take off his clothes. The two men then beat him nearly to death, gouged out his eye, shot him in the head, and then threw his body, tied to the cotton-gin fan with barbed wire, into the river. #EmmettTill #blackhistory365 #knowyourhistory

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On this day 60 years ago, while visiting family in Money, Mississippi, 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, is brutally murdered for allegedly "flirting with a white woman" four days earlier. His assailants–the white woman’s husband and her brother–made Emmett carry a 75-pound cotton-gin fan to the bank of the Tallahatchie River and ordered him to take off his clothes. The two men then beat him nearly to death, gouged out his eye, shot him in the head, and then threw his body, tied to the cotton-gin fan with barbed wire, into the river. #EmmettTill #blackhistory365 #knowyourhistory

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#MarcusGarvey #knowyourhistory #blackhistory365

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Liberate the minds of men and ultimately you will liberate the bodies of men. #MarcusGarvey #blackhistory365 #knowyourhistory

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I lift my voice in admiration and respect to the memory of Julian Bond. Rest in Power sir. #JulianBond

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“I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background........Beside the waters of the Hudson" I feel my race. Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept, but through it all, I remain myself. When covered by the waters, I am; and the ebb but reveals me again." --Zora Neale Hurston "How It Feels to be Colored Me"