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Today In History

A full nine months before Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat up for a white person, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin is arrested on March 2, 1955 for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery, Alabama bus.

Colvin was traveling home from school when the bus’ driver ordered her, along with three fellow Black students, to give up their row of seats to a white passenger.

Colvin’s friends obliged, but she refused to move. At school, she had recently learned about abolitionists, and later recalled that “it felt like Sojourner Truth was on one side pushing me down, and Harriet Tubman was on the other side of me pushing me down. I couldn’t get up.”

The Montgomery Bus Boycott—considered the first large-scale U.S. demonstration against segregation—came to a close on December 20, 1956, 381 days after it began, and one year, nine months and 18 days after Colvin’s arrest.

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・ Rest in peace. Dove. 今朝起きて一番最初に見た文字が、彼の訃報だった。 それからずっと頭の中を巡る “3, that's the magic number “. 今年に入り直ぐに全てのプラットフォームにストリーミングされる報せは、彼ら3人の願いが叶った瞬間で、私たちも笑い歌い、大いに祝った。 日本でまた会える事をとても愉しみに思ってたよ。 病は辛い。だけど早いよ。 やすらかに、Dove。 #delasoul #wherehistoryandhiphopmeet #historyandhiphop365 #cartermagazine #carter #trugoythedove #davidjudejolicoeur #delasoul #3feethighandrising #rip #sip #hiphop #blackhistorymonth #blackhistory #history #staywoke @cartermagazine “Everybody's sayin'… What to do when suckin' lunatics start diggin' and chewin’, They don't know that the Soul don't go for that Potholes in my lawn… And that goes for my rhyme sheet… Which I concentrated so hard on, see… I don't ask for maximum security… But my dwellin' is swellin' It nipped my bud when I happened to fall Into a spot… Where no ink or an ink-blot Was on a scroll… I just wrote me a new mot… But now it's gone… There's no Suckers knew that I hate To recognize that every time I'm writin' It's gone.” - Trugoy the Dove Rest in Peace | David Jude Jolicoeur CARTER™️ Magazine carter-mag.com https://www.instagram.com/p/Col694IyCz-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Today We Honor Richard Pryor

Comedian, actor, a masterful storyteller, a multi-talented entertainer, a comic of acerbic wit, and no self-pity cultural icon.

“Do you know how you felt when you would lean all the way back in a chair, and just before you were about to tip over, at the very last second, you’d catch yourself ? That’s how I feel all the time.” - Richard Pryor

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Today In History

Nat King Cole, legendary singer, pianist, and entertainer, was born in Montgomery, AL, on this date March 17, 1919.

By the 1950s, Cole emerged as a popular solo performer. He scored numerous hits, with such songs as “Nature Boy,” “Mona Lisa,” “Too Young” and “Unforgettable.” In the studio, Cole got to work with some of the country’s top talent, including Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald, and famous arrangers such as Nelson Riddle.

Cole made television history in 1956 when he became the first African American performer to host a variety TV series. The Nat King Cole Show featured many of the leading performers of the day, including Count Basie, Peggy Lee, Sammy Davis Jr. and Tony Bennett.

His daughter Natalie Cole included a cover of the song Unforgettable on her album Unforgettable… with Love. It was certified 7× platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, for which Cole became the first African-American woman to win the award.

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Today In History

Marvin Gaye was a major force in twentieth century music—a singer of rare sensitivity, a versatile pianist, expert drummer, writer of startling originality and producer capable of seamlessly integrating a multitude of melodic strands. Beyond his great popularity, his impact on artists of his generations and generations to come is enormous.

Like no artist before or after, Gaye possessed an uncommon cool for combining the secular and spiritual. A man who lived much of his life at war with himself, music was his refuge, the place where he generated wondrous harmony.

Marvin Pentz Gay Jr. was born in Washing, D.C. on this date April 2, 1939.

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Sandra Bland: Say Her Name

Sandra Annette Bland was a 28-year-old woman from Chicago, who was taken into custody by a state trooper in Prairie View, Texas, following a minor traffic violation on July 10, 2015. Many people consider Sandra’s traffic stop to be a textbook case of rampant racial profiling.

After authorities reviewed the dashcam footage, the white state trooper who arrested Sandra was placed on administrative leave for failing to follow proper traffic stop procedures. He was subsequently indicted for perjury for making false statements about the circumstances surrounding Sandra’s arrest, and he was fired. On July 13, 2015 just three days after being arrested, Sandra Bland was found hanged in her jail cell and her death was ruled a suicide.

Most of us today have suspicions about the alleged suicide.

Rest In Peace… Rest In Power.

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Today In History

Elijah “The Real” McCoy, inventor and holder of around 57 patents, was born in Colchester, Ontario, on this date May 2, 1843.

McCoy was a Canadian-American of African-American descent. Born free on the Ontario shore of Lake Erie to parents who fled enslavement in Kentucky-he traveled to the United States as a young child when his family returned in 1847, becoming a U.S. resident and citizen.

His machine lubricants were so in demand that buyers of machinery insisted that they contain only the “Real McCoy” lubricants.

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Today We Honor Beah Richards

Beulah Elizabeth Richardson, known professionally as Beah Richards, was a strong fiercely activist, poet, playwright, actress, author and powerful Black woman. She was as forceful and authentic in her portrayals as she was on the podium demanding justice and equal rights.

Richards received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Sidney Poitier’s mother in the 1967 film Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, as well as winning two Primetime Emmy Awards for her guest roles in the television series Frank’s Place in 1988 and The Practice in 2000. She also received a Tony Award nomination for her performance in the 1965 production of The Amen Corner.

In 1951 Beah wrote a sweeping poem that influenced the Civil Rights Movement.

“I speak not mockingly, but I fought for freedom, I’m fighting now for our unity. We are women all, and what wrongs you murders me and eventually marks your grave so we share a mutual death at the hand of tyranny.”

“I would that the poor among you could have seen through the scheme and joined hands with me, then, we being the majority, could long ago have rescued our wasted lives.”

Upon her passing, as a final protest, Beah Richards had her ashes spread across a Confederate cemetery. She refused to let white Hollywood – or white America – define her. She continued her fight for liberation even after her death!

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