Boogie

The Common Man with uncommon character

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Reblog daily for health and prosperity

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reblog to tell your mutual you’re proud of them and it’ll all work out

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Reblog to give mutuals a break from whatever they're been going through

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The Blackening

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Y’all when I tell you this had me HOLLERIN!!!

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Honestly one of the greatest comedy sketches ever made.

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Lmao that was really good

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This was hilarious but I would have loved for them to come to the realization that there is like 10 of them and 1 white man, and all their black asses could have handled him.

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This Shit Was Funny As Fuck 💀

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Nia Long photographed by George Holz in Essence Magazine (April 2000).

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Tyra Banks by Gilles Bensimon for Elle US January 1995

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In 1963, the famous photographer Richard Avedon took a picture of a man named William Casby. William Casby, born in 1857, was 106 years old at the time. In his hands, he was holding his great-great-granddaughter, Cherri Stamps-McCray.

The image is amazing because the elderly gentleman holding his descendant so tenderly, was born into slavery more than a century prior. Casby would eventually live until 1970, dying at the age of 113.

His great- and great-grandchildren are alive today, and many of them remember him.

It puts into perspective just how relatively recent slavery existed. Because as faraway and distant as it may feel now. Even in modern-day America, there are people who have active memories of talking to former slaves.

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‘Don’t Let Them Bury My Story’: The Long Life and Unfinished Fight of Viola Fletcher, Tulsa’s Oldest Race Massacre Survivor, Dies at 111

On a spring afternoon more than a century after she fled a burning city with nothing but the clothes on her back, Viola Ford Fletcher sat before a college audience in Illinois and did what she has done, again and again, in the twilight of her life: she told the story America tried to forget.

“I remember seeing how cruel they were,” she said quietly, describing the night in 1921 when white mobs torched the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma — a place the world once knew as Black Wall Street. “They burned houses, buildings and everything on the street… I remember seeing people falling from being shot and killed. It was just terrible.”

At 111 years old, Fletcher — widely known as “Mother Fletcher” — was the oldest known living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and one of the last direct witnesses to one of the most devastating episodes of racial violence in U.S. history.

Her life stretched from Jim Crow sharecropping fields to the Black Lives Matter era; from nights spent sleeping upright with the lights on, afraid of the dark, to standing under bright television lights in Washington as she urged Congress to finally confront what was taken from Greenwood. She lived most of her years in relative obscurity — cleaning houses, raising children, building a life on the margins of American prosperity — only to become, in her tenth decade, a central figure in the national debate over historical memory and reparations.

And she had done all this while insisting on one simple demand, now the title of her 2023 memoir: Don’t Let Them Bury My Story.

Viola Ford Fletcher died on November 24, 2025. She was 111.

Read the full story at https://www.kolumnmagazine.com/2025/11/24/kolumn-magazine-post-template/

KOLUMN Magazine

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He was sentenced to thirteen years in prison, but no one ever came to take him away. In 1999, Cornealious Mike Anderson was convicted in Missouri for robbing a Burger King manager of two thousand dollars. He expected to be taken into custody immediately, but the paperwork never arrived, the transport order never came, and the system moved on as if his sentence had already begun.

Anderson did not run. He did not disappear. He simply lived the life he thought he was supposed to build once his time was served. He opened a construction business. He married. He raised children. He volunteered at church and coached youth sports. For more than a decade he worked, paid taxes, and stayed out of trouble. To neighbors he was a steady presence who kept his commitments and showed up for people who needed him.

Thirteen years later, when the date of his supposed release approached, officials checked his record and discovered he had never entered the system at all. He was arrested and taken to prison to serve the sentence that had been delayed by an administrative mistake. The case drew national attention. His family, coworkers, and local community spoke about the man they knew rather than the young defendant he had once been.

A judge reviewed the situation and delivered a rare decision. Anderson had already demonstrated the purpose of rehabilitation by living responsibly for more than a decade. Sending him to prison now would serve no public benefit. The judge ordered his release.

The case of Cornealious Mike Anderson became an example of how redemption can take root quietly, through years of ordinary responsibility rather than dramatic gestures. It showed that sometimes the strongest argument for a second chance is the life someone builds when no one is watching.

Story based on historical records.

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She grew up watching her Black father get pulled over again and again

while her white mother drove past police without a single glance.

Michelle Alexander noticed the pattern long before she knew the name for it.

Years later at the ACLU she saw the numbers that changed her life.

More Black men were in prison than had been enslaved in 1850.

Same country.

Different system.

Same purpose.

White teenager with cocaine was sent to treatment.

Black teenager with crack was sent to prison for years.

Same drug.

Different fate.

She wrote a paper showing that mass incarceration was the new Jim Crow.

Fifteen journals rejected it.

Too controversial.

Too uncomfortable.

Too true.

So she turned the rejected paper into a book.

The New Jim Crow arrived in 2010 and forced America to face the reality it tried to hide

that the justice system did not accidentally target Black communities

it was built that way.

One felony conviction meant no vote

no housing

no jobs

no second chance.

Legal discrimination that followed people for life.

Michelle Alexander revealed the design behind the numbers

that the United States did not end racial control

it simply redesigned it through prisons.

Her work became one of the most important civil rights books of the century

because she said clearly what no one wanted to hear

the system was not broken

it was functioning exactly as intended.

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Spirit is letting us the downfall of the celebrity era ain’t no more false idols running the culture

Everyone in the industry sacrificed someone and alot of them are finally getting what’s coming to them.

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“I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera.” – Gordon Parks

Segregation history, Gordon parks. 1956.

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I Love Black and Brown people!!!

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