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I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me. -- Muhammad Ali The Greatest (1975)

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It's my 13 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

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The mountains are calling and I must go. 🌻

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For #WorldBookDay I’m sharing a list of books that are my favourite reads; published books that have given me some of my greatest insight into Black British history, identity, culture and the experiences of Black communities in Britain:

1. Peter Fryer, Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain 2. Ron Ramdin, The Making of The Black Working Class in Britain 3. Norma Myers, Reconstructing the Black Past: Blacks in Britain 1780-1830 4. Gerzina Gretchen, Black London: Life before Emancipation 5. Beverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie & Suzanne Scafe, The Heart of The Race: Black Women’s Lives in Britain 6. Delia Jarrett-Macauley, Reconstructing Womanhood, Reconstructing Feminism: Writings on Black Women 7. Julia Sudbury, Other Kinds of Dreams: Black Women’s Organisations and the Politics of Transformation 8. Kwesi Owusu, Black British Culture & Society (A Text Reader) 9. Kobena Mercer, Welcome to the Jungle: New Positions in Black Cultural Studies 10. Paul Gilroy, Black Britain: A Photographic History 11. Mark Olden, Murder in Notting Hill 12. Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe, Scattered Belongings: Cultural Paradoxes of Race, Nation and Gender 13. Ruth Chigwada-Bailey, Black Women’s Experiences of Criminal Justice: Race, Gender and Class 14. Marc Matera, Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century 15. Kennetta Hammond Perry, London is the Place for Me: Black Britons, Citizenship and the Politics of Race 16. David Olusoga, Black and British: A Forgotten History

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February 21, 1965: Revolutionary leader Malcolm X assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, NYC.

Graphic: Orlando Workers League

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“Medgar was a happy man with a rich smile and a warmth that touched many people. He was never too busy to listen or too tired to help. But beneath that gentle sympathy lay strength that could not be intimidated. Lord knows, enough people tried. But it never worked and that, I suppose, is why they killed him.” - Myrlie Evers, LIFE magazine, June 28, 1963 . . 55 years ago today, on June 12, 1963, civil rights activist Medgar Evers was fatally shot in Mississippi by a member of the White Citizens Council. Evers was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery. Pictured here is his widow Myrlie Evers comforting their son at his funeral. This image ran on the cover of June 28, 1963 issue of LIFE. (John Loengard—The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images) #LIFElegends #CivilRights #MedgarEvers

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(WATCH): Reporters and Negotiators Laugh at Trump's Inability to Understand Trade Terms

Anyone who becomes president is, at times, going to be unfamiliar with specific terminology. Most

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