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Malcolm X 1992 - Pilgrimage to Mecca Scene

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Kent State University

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“The Kent State shootings (also known as the May 4 massacre or the Kent State massacre)[3][4][5] were the shootings on May 4, 1970 of unarmed college students by members of the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio during a mass protest against the bombing of Cambodia by United States military forces. Twenty-eight guardsmen fired approximately 67 rounds over a period of 13 seconds, killing four students and wounding nine others, one of whom suffered permanent paralysis.[6][7]”

“There was a significant national response to the shootings: hundreds of universities, colleges, and high schools closed throughout the United States due to a student strike of 4 million students,[10] and the event further affected public opinion, at an already socially contentious time, over the role of the United States in the Vietnam War.[11]”

Student strike of 4 million students! Let’s do that again lol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings

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Don’t forget that basically half the country thought the students deserved it…

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Another picture from Kent State.

But it was not just Kent State, eleven days later Mississippi Police fired 150 rounds into a dormitory at Jackson State College, killing 2 and wounding 15 black protesters.

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I remember.

Four dead: Jeffrey Glenn Miller; 265 ft (81 m) shot through the mouth; killed instantly. Allison Beth Krause; 343 ft (105 m) fatal left chest wound; dead on arrival. William Knox Schroeder; 382 ft (116 m) fatal chest wound; died almost an hour later in a local hospital while undergoing surgery. He was a member of the campus ROTC battalion. Sandra Lee Scheuer; 390 ft (120 m) fatal neck wound; died a few minutes later from loss of blood.

.Nine wounded: Joseph Lewis Jr.; 71 ft (22 m); hit twice; once in his right abdomen and once in his lower left leg. John R. Cleary; 110 ft (34 m); upper left chest wound Thomas Mark Grace; 225 ft (69 m); hit in his left ankle. Alan Michael Canfora; 225 ft (69 m); hit in his right wrist. Dean R. Kahler; 258 ft (79 m); back wound fracturing the vertebrae; permanently paralyzed from the waist down. Douglas Alan Wrentmore; 329 ft (100 m); hit in his right knee. James Dennis Russell; 375 ft (114 m); hit in his right thigh from a bullet and grazed on his right forehead by either a bullet or birdshot; both wounds minor (wounded near the Memorial Gymnasium, away from most of the other students). Robert Follis Stamps; 495 ft (151 m); hit in his right buttock. Donald Scott MacKenzie; 750 ft (230 m); neck wound.

Of those shot, none was closer than 71 feet (22 m) to the guardsmen. Of those killed, the nearest (Miller) was 265 feet (81 m) away, and their average distance from the guardsmen was 345 feet (105 m). The victim furthest from the Guard was 750 feet (230 m) away.

Oh yes. I remember.

Kent State shootings - Wikipedia

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Self defense is common sense..

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This clip comes from a documentary, called “No Vietnamese Ever Called Me N***”. It was released in 1968 and directed by David Loeb Weiss.

The film follows a massive 1967 protest march that started in Harlem and ended at the United Nations. Instead of using a traditional narrator, it relies on “cinéma vérité” footage—just capturing real people on the street and a sit-down interview with three Black Vietnam veterans who were trying to make sense of fighting for a country that didn’t treat them as full citizens.

The atmosphere in the country at the time was incredibly tense and heavy with a sense of “double consciousness.” People in the community felt a lot of pressure to stay quiet; there was a very real fear that if you spoke up against the war or joined a protest, you’d be labeled a “communist” or a troublemaker and lose your job or your apartment. As the draft kept taking young Black men to fight in Southeast Asia, that frustration started to boil over.

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Toni Braxton

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The LOX - Fiesta Freestyle

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FAMU’s first ever female Head Drum Major is a Delta woman Now!!! 🔺🐘 Oluwamodupe “Dupe” Oloyede is a senior Theatre major at Florida A&M University, originally from Decatur, Georgia, with Nigerian-American roots. In June 2025, she became the first female head drum major of FAMU’s Marching 100. Her selection was based on her leadership and discipline, and she hopes to leave a legacy of excellence. Her journey reflects how culture, hard work, and passion can break barriers. Now she is a proud member of the Beta Alpha chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc.

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MOOD ALL YEAR

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On this day March 16, 1995

Mississippi Finally Ratifies 13th Amendment After Failing to Do So for 130 Years 

After failing for 130 years to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery except as punishment for crime, the state of Mississippi finally did so on March 16, 1995.

Soon after the Confederacy's defeat in the Civil War, the Thirteenth Amendment was designed to abolish slavery nationwide. The text of the amendment reads, "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

After Congress passed the amendment on January 31, 1865, three-fourths of the states (27 of 36) needed to ratify it before it could become part of the Constitution. Mississippi's economy was built on slavery and the state had the largest enslaved population in the country at the start of the Civil War. On December 5, 1865, the state legislature voted against ratification, becoming one of several Southern states that refused to endorse the Thirteenth Amendment. 

Almost 130 years later, in 1994, a clerk in the Texas Legislature named Gregory Watson discovered that Mississippi still had not ratified the Thirteenth Amendment. He notified each of the Black members of the Mississippi legislature and sent them a draft of a resolution that Mississippi could adopt in order to rectify the situation. On March 16 of the next year, the Mississippi legislature reached a largely symbolic vote to unanimously ratify the abolition of slavery in the U.S.—becoming the last of the eligible states to do so.

After the vote, however, Mississippi state officials failed to send the necessary documentation to the federal register, so the ratification was not formally filed as required. Nearly 20 years later, in late 2012, two Mississippi residents discovered that the ratification was not yet official and notified the secretary of state. Several weeks later, the required paperwork was filed, and Mississippi's ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment was legally recorded on February 7, 2013.

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While you guys are out celebrating Black History Month with pictures of Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, and everybody else you celebrate, time in, and time out every year, I want to take time to acknowledge the “Black Nobody” who’s lives were taken because of the color of their skin. Those that were raped, hung, beaten, castrated, and burned among other things. So while you are out enjoying your freedoms,. It’s important to recognize those who had no name, no voice, no power, and thus no control over their destiny or even their own lives so you can appreciate yours

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woke up extra black today, nobody can tell me SHIT.