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Dear My Black, Bisexual, Freshman Self: You Are Enough

You have to keep fighting that voice inside.

"Being Black and gay enough constantly weighed on your mind, and you tried to fix it. Well, Bex, it’s hard to fix something that’s not broken. You weren’t doing anything wrong. Generalizations and stereotypes help make some complex things more understandable to people, but they can be damaging. Grouping people together because they’re all supposed to act one way, or talk one way, or like the same things, leaves little room for individuality." - a reflection by Bex Robinson of @GLSEN

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#Repost @profajchristian ・・・ @weareotv is taking over Chicago's museums in March! We are legit extending #BHM18 premiering 3 Black & Queer AF pilots and video art at the The Art Institute of Chicago! . ✨ . Stop by 12-1PM Friday March 30 for the premiere of #HairStoryTV starring @queensayanaomi, @wallacewallacewallace, @sojournerzenobia, @bigxphilly, @frrrgr, @arayyay, @swamp_star88, @feliciaholman, @pizzaminatiprincess, @elijaa_, and an original music video #BSAYF created and co-directed by @rapbrarian shot by @moll_jean! . ✨ . @moresweetbeef will screen his video art piece #TheRoachIsComing! . ✨ . And @alexa_grae will show their highly anticipated opera/R&B visual album #SurLaNuit shot by @yesjonwes! . ✨ . Y’ALL. AIN’T. READY. (at The Art Institute of Chicago)

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Most importantly, learn it #BHM18 #Day28

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Thelonious Monk is titled the “High Priest of Bebop”. Monk’s title sums him up well- his mystique, influence and leadership, the innovator of a new, hip approach to jazz called “bebop”, the educator and preacher of this new jazz gospel, and not in some classroom, but at his house and at the club, after hours, teaching young, hungry musicians, many of whom would go on to become jazz “greats” in their own right, like Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins...the list goes on and on. Bebop started as art music, the “underground” of jazz to the mainstream swing music, which dominated the 1930s. But bebop would supplant swing, becoming the new vernacular of jazz, and influencing most American music that followed, as this modern jazz language continues to inform funk, R&B, rock, and is heavily sampled in hip hop and beat music to this day. #BHM18 #Day27

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On this day in 1926, Carter G Woodson started Negro History Week. As we know, this would later become Black History Month, also known as African-American History Month in the U.S., as well as an annual observance in Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, and now the Netherlands as of 2016. In nations outside of the US, it is known as Black Achievement Month. It began as a way for remembering important people and events in the history of the African diaspora. It is celebrated annually in the United States and Canada in February, as well as in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands in October. #BHM18 #Day26

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In 1842 Charles Lenox Remond became one of the first African Americans to give testimony before a state legislature when he addressed a committee of the Massachusetts House of Representatives investigating discrimination in public transportation. Here Remond contrasted the absence of discrimination in his travels to Europe with his rude treatment on public transportation in and around Boston. #BHM18 #Day25

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In 1967, Robert H. Lawrence, Jr. (right) became the first African-American to be trained as an astronaut. He unfortunately died in a plane crash during flight training before he could be sent on his first space mission. Sixteen years later, Guion “Guy” Bluford (left) carried on Lawrence’s legacy by becoming the first Black man in space. #BHM18 #Day24

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One in four cowboys was Black, despite the stories told in popular books and movies. In fact, it’s believed by an African American man named Bass Reeves. In the 19th century, the Wild West drew enslaved blacks with the hope of freedom and wages. When the Civil War ended, freedmen came West with the hope of a better life where the demand for skilled labor was high. These African Americans made up at least a quarter of the legendary cowboys who lived dangerous lives facing the elements. #BHM18 #Day23