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[thesagittarianmind]

Ebony Magazine: March, 1971

[tabney2023]

Portrait of a Black Woman wearing Emerald Jewelry

[listening2images]

#STASIS 👁 @shitanda_ —— #ListeningToImages #Archives #SonicFrequency #Moodboard #HapticImages #ArchiveOfArchives #BlackVisuals #BlackGaze #BlackArchives #BlackAndWhitePhotos #Afrofuturism #DigitalArchives #AfricanArchives #Listening2Images #CathodeRay #CathodeRayStudio #Shitanda #Shadow #Shadowself #ShadowPlay #Silhouette https://www.instagram.com/p/CTmeEHHIMAS/?utm_medium=tumblr

[eighthxjune]

[cocoabutterbrushes]

Pictured is 2 year old Cicely Tyson (right-side) along with her Nevisian Parents . Her father, William Tyson, a carpenter, and her mother, Frederica Huggins-Tyson a home domestic along with her brother and little sister in 1927.

Ms. Cicely Tyson was from Nevis, the smaller of the 2 islands comprising the nation of Saint Kitts and Nevis in the Caribbean. Something I always took pride in is having a close cultural connection to Ms. Tyson. Both of my grandparents being from Brown Hill, Nevis, I spent many of my summers eating sweet mangoes and running away from the bold monkeys that would come into our yard.

To see someone from such a small knit island touch the world in the way she did was just so...awe-inspiring. I saw myself in her so many ways and I know that is the case for many black women and girls.

I’m so grateful that we got to witness her here on Earth with all of her grace. Rest well, Ms. Cicely Tyson. You will always live on. 🕊💓

[hotsexcoldwine1023]

Repost from @black_history_buff_777 • Ever heard of the unfortunate story of Martinsville Seven? Read this!⁠ ⁠ The Martinsville Seven were a group of Black men executed in 1951 after being convicted of raping a white woman. ⁠ ⁠ On the evening of January 8, 1949, Ruby Stroud Floyd accused 13 black men of raping her while she passed through a Black neighborhood in Martinsville, Virginia. These accused men who had no real criminal history soon became known as the Martinsville Seven. Most of the men were between 18 and 20 years old and worked as laborers in small-scale furniture factories and warehouses. At age 37, World War II veteran Francis DeSales Grayson was the oldest of the defendants. ⁠ ⁠ Not all of the defendants were able to read the confessions they signed, and none of them had a lawyer with them as they were questioned. Under threats that they would be released to a lynch mob, each confessed to involvement in the rape. ⁠ ⁠ By early 1951, legal strategies to save the Martinsville Seven were exhausted and the NAACP turned towards a public relations campaign. Despite campaigns, editorials, and local vigils, newly-installed Virginia Governor John S. Battle refused clemency. ⁠ ⁠ After a succession of perfunctory trials before all-white, all-male juries, each was convicted and sentenced to death. They were executed in 1951 in the largest mass execution for rape in U.S. history.⁠ ⁠ On August 31, 2021, the state of Virginia granted posthumous pardons to all seven men, 70 years after their deaths.⁠ ⁠ tag someone that needs to read this!⁠ ⁠ Discover more @blackhistorybuff⁠ Follow @blackhistorybuff⁠ ⁠ ⁠ #endsexualassault #webelievesurvivors #victimblaming #ibelieveyou #blackkings #blackmanmagic #blackpeople #blackmensmiling #darkskinmen #blackrelationships #blackmenmatter #blackmenkillingit #blackfamily #standinsolidarity #nojustice #useyourprivilege #blackarchives #movement4blacklives #endwhitesupremacy #blacklivesmattermovement #racismisavirus #systemicoppression #reparations #antiblackracism #historychannel #historyfacts⁠ #blackhistorymonth #365daysofblackhistory #blackhistorymatters #blackhistoryfacts https://www.instagram.com/p/CYZIhBErAeT/?utm_medium=tumblr

[longstoryshortbooksandco]

“The questions which one asks oneself begins, at last, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others. One can only face in others what one can face in oneself. On this confrontation depends the measure of our wisdom and compassion. This energy is all that one finds in the rubble of vanished civilizations, and the only hope for ours.”

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James Baldwin • Nobody Knows My Name

. more notes of a native son .

Delta Publishing, 1962. Fourth Printing

[kellicoles]

Hi lovelies! Today I want to share with you the most recent podcast episode I had the blessed opportunity to be  included in for the digital exhibit on Alice Dunbar Nelson @therosenbach #VoicesofChange. During this episode I spoke with @thewordinthewilderness , Mariam I. Williams, and Melissa Benbow about uncovering previously hidden stories in the archive. It was fun and informative me to learn from and about these scholars. https://anchor.fm/iamanamerican/episodes/Episode-6-How-to-Uncover-Hidden-Voices-in-the-Archive-Tips-from-Melissa-Benbow--Kelli-Racine-Coles--and-Mariam-I--Williams-eko3r4 . . . #alicedunbarnelson #19c #blackwomenshistory #blackarchives https://www.instagram.com/p/CHGmKW2nczJ/?igshid=fw5wzth4nrlj