Black Obsession

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@antoinesemenyo (Instagram)

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Happy Birthday!

Jérémy Baffour Doku (born 27 May 2002) is a Belgian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Premier League club Manchester City and the Belgium national team.

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Arna Wendell Bontemps (Oct 13, 1902 – Jun 4, 1973) was an American poet, novelist and librarian, and a noted member of the Harlem Renaissance.

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Guion Stewart Bluford Jr. (born Nov 22, 1942) is an American aerospace engineer, retired USAF officer and fighter pilot, and former NASA astronaut, in which capacity he became the first African American to go to space.

While assigned to NASA, he remained a USAF officer rising to the rank of colonel.

He participated in four Space Shuttle flights between 1983 and 1992.

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Pende chief's clothing, Chief Kibala, Democratic Republic of the Congo, by African Ceremonies

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Mary McLeod Bethune (July 10, 1875 – May 18, 1955) was an American educator, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist.

Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women in 1935, and proceeded to establish the Aframerican Women's Journal, which was the flagship journal of the organization.

She presided over other African-American women's organizations, including the National Association for Colored Women.

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Africa Day (25 May)

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Both Members of This Club by George Bellows, 1909

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Black is Beautiful

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Amiri Baraka (Oct 7, 1934 – Jan 9, 2014) was an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism.

He was the author of numerous books of poetry and taught at several universities, including the University at Buffalo and Stony Brook University.

He received the PEN/Beyond Margins Award in 2008 for Tales of the Out and the Gone.

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Benjamin Banneker (Nov 9, 1731 – Oct 19, 1806) was an American naturalist, mathematician, astronomer and almanac author.

Statue of Benjamin Banneker in the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.

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Barabaig bride's dress, Tanzania, by African Ceremonies

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James Arthur Baldwin (Aug 2, 1924 – Dec 1, 1987) was an American writer and civil rights activist who garnered acclaim for his essays, novels, plays, and poems.

His 1953 novel Go Tell It on the Mountain has been ranked by Time magazine as one of the top 100 English-language novels.