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Homophobia is killing our kids and I will never quiet about it.

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PROTECT LGBTQA+ KIDS OF COLOR PROTECT LGBTQA+ KIDS OF COLOR PROTECT LGBTQA+ KIDS OF COLOR PROTECT LGBTQA+ KIDS OF COLOR

[hartindy123]

This poor baby!!!

[atlantathriller]

But they would have blew it down and took over anyway

[brothamanblack77]

In 1961, Nine students were arrested for entering an “White Only” library. The Tugaloo Nine Mississippi. BHM

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[brothamanblack77]

Today’s #BlackHistoryMonth profile comes via Women of History, who shared this colorized photo of Madam C.J. Walker, one of the wealthiest women of the early 20th century. Born to former slaves, Walker developed a cosmetics and hair care line aimed at African-American women. She used much of her fortune for social causes and to fund the arts. At its height, her company had trained and employed some 20,000 women in various capacities from sales to product development.

[jazminesullivan]

Dorothy Dandridge was not only one of the most beautiful women in the world, she was my leading lady. Dorothy and I were constantly in search of ways in which to do things that people never saw before. Like two very attractive people kissing who are people of color. Here we were trying to live up to the best of the cinema art, but because of the issue of race, we were not given the time in which to do it that other films would’ve been given under the circumstances. Otto Preminger shot that picture – huge, color, CinemaScope, big screen – he did that in 10 days. We could barely get the lines right before it was a take. We were lucky that it came off as well as it did. The film was a huge success, I think, not just because we may have done a performance that was worthy of viewing, but I think it was a curiosity to see this film that was just us being us and love and caring. Black people had just never quite been seen in that rhythm before.    —Harry Belafonte on Carmen Jones (1954), Black Hollywood: They’ve Gotta Have Us

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[25000yearcycle]

I wonder what Gucci Man is gonna do?

[ithedondon20]

[afro-eugenics]

NoMore

[ebonytruth]

[vintagewoc]

Diana Ross (1982)

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[so-dayi-trillerz]

Diana Ross

“So-Dayi ❤️ the stage  where evolution begins”

[hartindy123]

JUST THE HARD TRUTH OF THINGS!!! https://www.instagram.com/p/BtjUZwjBAkO/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=k210wui1m2jg

[tami-taylors-hair]

Meet the woman who rented hotel rooms for the homeless during deep freeze

Candice Payne used her personal American Express card to get homeless people off the streets during record-setting freeze in Chicago.

Candice Payne is a hero. 

I figured this was some rich person who bought out the rooms, but she’s just a regular person who charged it to her credit card. 20 hotel rooms at the last minute must’ve been a fortune. 

Candice for mayor of Chicago, tbh. 

[so-dayi-trillerz]

“So-Dayi ❤️ the stage where evolution begins”

[ourmelanins]

Ruby Bridges (1954-)

fact:

At the tender age of six, Ruby Bridges advanced the cause of civil rights in November 1960 when she became the first African American student to integrate an elementary school in the South.

[so-dayi-trillerz]

[ebonytruth]

“In Louisiana, black women were put in cells with male prisoners and some became pregnant. In 1848, legislators passed a new law declaring that all children born in the penitentiary of African American parents serving life sentences would be property of the state. The women would raise the kids until the age of ten, at which point the penitentiary would place an ad in the newspaper. Thirty days later, the children would be auctioned off on the courthouse steps ‘cash on delivery.’ The proceeds were used to fund schools for white children… many of [the black children] were purchased by prison officials.”

Source: American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment by Shane Bauer

H/T Sharon Morgan

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