Black History: The Remix

Highlighting the baddest in black history: the troublemakers, revolutionaries, artists, visionaries, unconventional, and plain-ole-regular black folks resisting oppression

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Black Feminist Brilliance and Beauty on Twitter

Today Twitter timelines and Facebook feeds were flooded with photos of fierce feminists in bold and bright lipstick colors. The waves of selfies were a part of a social media campaign, #LupitaForMAC. Check out the Black Feminists Brilliance and Beauty

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In celebration of black history I had a kiki with my friend Miatta about our favorite historical figures. Check it out!

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Florynce "Flo" Kennedy (2/11/1916-12/22/2000)

"Known to everyone as Flo, recognizable everywhere in cowboy hat and pink sunglasses, she was one of the first black women to graduate from Columbia Law School, where she was admitted after threatening a discrimination suit. She fought in the courts and on the streets for abortion rights, represented Black Panthers, was a founding member of the National Women's Political Caucus and led a mass urination by women protesting a lack of women's restrooms at Harvard (Douglas Martin, The New York Times, Dec. 23, 2000)."

Happy Birthday, Flo! 

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Happy Belated Birthday, Alice Walker

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The Deacons for Defense and Justice was an armed self-defense Civil Rights organization formed by African-American men in Jonesboro and Bogalusa, Louisiana, and Natchez, Mississippi. They were factory workers, farmers, common laborers, fathers, husbands, and church-goers who organized to protect themselves and their communities from the terrorism and oppression of the Ku Klux Klan organizations, White Citizens Councils, and the police. They are often excluded from accounts of the Civil Rights Movement because they did not adhere to the strategy of civil disobedience and non-violence. Still, they worked closely with Civil Rights leaders, and Dr. King hired them to guard protests. 

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Freedom Fighters

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Maria W. Stewart (1803 – February 6, 1880) was a relentless freedom fighter who challenged oppression through writing, teaching, and speaking. She is one of the first known Black female political writers, abolitionists, lecturers, and women's rights advocates. She gave speeches denouncing slavery to audiences of black and white people, men and women. Also, her anti-slavery essays were published in The Liberator. 

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Yvette Stevens at 16 years old after befriending activist and Chicago native Fred Hampton in 1967 joined the Chicago chapter of the Black Panther Party. Her duties were to hit them streets and sell the Black Panther newspaper and she also helped start the free breakfast for children program in Chicago. She states “”I saw what they were doing and it seemed to me that they were making sense.” In 1969 she left the Black Panther Party,she states “”I acquired a gun at one time and right then I realised it was not really for me…” A Yoruba priest at the Afro-Arts Theatre she attended gave her a new, very long name: Chaka Adunne Aduffe Yemoja Hodarhi Karifi. Only the Chaka stuck and with a marriage to Hassan Khan she had become CHAKA KHAN. 

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Marlon Riggs Tongues Untied (1989)

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Happy Birthday, Rosa Parks! 

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Legendary vogue performer Willie Ninja in Tongues Untied by Marlon Riggs(1989)

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Let's set the record straight. If anyone is to be considered the queen of twerking it's the legendary Josephine Baker (6/3/1906 – 4/12/1975). A talented entertainer, Josephine Baker  showcased her signature hip-shaking moves on stages throughout the world. In addition to her career as a dancer and actor, Josephine Baker campaigned against segregation during the Civil Rights Movement and assisted the French government during WWII.    

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Missing child!!!!!!! Uriah Davis!! Philly 13 yrs old. Last seen 7600 block of Brentwood. 267.243.6003

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Let's never forget that iconic moment in Black History when Cam'ron and Dame Dash shut Bill O'Reilly down for tryna blame hip hop for everything that's wrong with America! Bye Felicia!

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Marlon Riggs (2/3/1957 – 4/5/1994) was a filmmaker who fought the shame and stigma that enshrouds blackness and queerness. 1989 he released Tongues Untied, a film that gave voice to black gay men and chronicled his battle with HIV/AIDS. His prolific film "Black Is...Black Ain't" explored the diverse expressions of black identity in the U.S.

Happy Birthday, Marlon Riggs!