#fifty years

[puppetmaker40]

The toast of the day

On this hallowed day fifty years ago, The Rocky Horror Picture Show was shown in movie theaters in the UK.

One wonders what Richard O'Brien thought his film was going to do.

[protoslacker]

The students of 1976 had challenged a system. The system remained standing throughout the 1980s and early 90s. Every year, when June 16 came around, adults would tell us about the bravery of the students who marched through Soweto. We learned about Hector Pieterson, the 13-year-old boy whose limp body you have probably seen in that iconic Sam Nzima photo, shot dead during the protest, carried by high school student Mbuyisa Makhubo, Hector’s sister Antoinette Sithole, running alongside them, wailing. We learned about Tsietsi Mashinini, a prominent student leader. We learned that young people had helped change the course of a country. What I remember most is the feeling that they were not much older than we were. As children, we are taught that history is made by presidents, generals, and famous leaders. The story of Soweto taught us something different. It taught us that history can be made by schoolchildren carrying placards. It can be made by teenagers refusing to accept what adults tell them is inevitable. That lesson mattered.

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Lihle Z. Mtshali in okayafrica. Op-Ed: What June 16 Means to Those of Us Born After the Soweto Uprising

Born a year after the Soweto Uprising, I grew up in a South Africa where many of the injustices students protested in 1976 were still part of daily life. Fifty years later, their fight for dignity, equality, and a better future continues to shape how we understand freedom.

[79zz]

First Reds

These two really helped kick off a series of multicolored heroes. Thanks you.

[gramarobin]

@idratherberunning49 💛🖤

[katy-griffin-saye]

Happy 50 years to a legendary animation studio Aardman

They have made the most charming things

[ctrl-lupin]

I still can't fucking believe they said THIS OUT LOUD HOLY FUCKING SHIT DEAR GODS IN HEAVEN. IT IS CANON

[starsleia]

rey nobody DESERVES picnics on the falcon with her space boyfriend

[theseasonofnow]

Now or Never

If not now, then when? The question that can launch a thousand ships   There is often something that we have meant to do in life we continually put off until tomorrow because of the potential consequences. Perhaps we are too busy, or maybe we are afraid of the price we pay, to do this thing. The fact that there is change involved and change is a scary thing because nobody really can guarantee you…

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