Black American OURstory

American history is longer more various more beautiful and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. ~ James Baldwin

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Augusta Savage

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Black Madonna & Child #7

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The Black ABCs

The 1970s Chicago-developed educational flashcards created by June Sark Heinrich and Bernadette H. Triplett to provide Black-centered learning materials for the youth.

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RIP El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz

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📝 @thereclaimed Happy Black ALLOFTHAT month🖤

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Portrait of singer Roberta Flack. Printed on front: "Roberta Flack, ATCO, John Levy Enterprises, 8467 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif. 90048." Handwritten on back: "Roberta Flack."

E. Azalia Hackley Collection of African Americans in the Performing Arts, Detroit Public Library

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Happy New Year folks!

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by Leroy Henderson

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Man holding up Black Power sign at Cicero March in Cicero, Illinois, Declan Haun, 1966

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Today In History

Gwendolyn Brooks became the first Black person to win a “Pulitzer Prize.” Brooks won the award for her book, Annie Allen, on this date May 1, 1950. | CARTER™️ Magazine carter-mag.com #wherehistoryandhiphopmeet #historyandhiphop365 #cartermagazine #carter #staywoke #gwendolynbrooks #book #blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #history https://www.instagram.com/p/COVOcSyLrYz/?igshid=13d8dmih93oxl

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Little Stevie