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▲ 249 r/BlackHistoryPhotos+1 crossposts

Malcolm X: "The black man's ballot will be like a bullet. One or the other, we’re at a time in history now where we want freedom, and only two things bring you freedom—the ballot or the bullet. Only two things." (Speech given on Apr 3, 1964)

u/unlimitedfutures — 8 days ago
▲ 215 r/Atlanta

2020 flashback: Ex-Atlanta mayoral hopeful Mary Norwood aids Trump’s bid to overturn Georgia election results

That was the one thing that I remember the most vividly about her. Needlessly to say, and to put it mildly, I do not like that woman all that much.

Has she ever done anything constructive for the city since she was first elected to the city hall?

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u/unlimitedfutures — 8 days ago
▲ 302 r/BlackHistoryPhotos+1 crossposts

On Sep 15, 1963, after the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, Virgil Ware (age 13) was murdered by a white teen and Johnny Robinson (age 16) was murdered by a white cop. Their names and photos are displayed alongside the four murdered girls at Kelly Ingram Park in Birmingham.

u/unlimitedfutures — 9 days ago
▲ 906 r/BlackHistoryPhotos+1 crossposts

Louis Gossett Jr. and LeVar Burton on the set of Roots: "He was a giant and a gentle man. His kindness and conscious effort to make a 19-year-old kid feel welcome was indicative of his open heart." LeVar eulogized his mentor Lou upon his passing, 47 years after they first met. (Photos taken in 1977)

u/unlimitedfutures — 10 days ago
▲ 63 r/BlackHistoryPhotos+1 crossposts

The Behold sculpture commemorates the heroic principles that guided the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. On Jan 11, 1990, Mrs. Coretta Scott King unveiled this monument as a tribute to her late husband and as an inspiration to others to fight for dignity, social justice, and human rights.

u/unlimitedfutures — 10 days ago
▲ 2.3k r/blackmen+1 crossposts

We already know Clarence Thomas is eager to their bidding for them and with them

u/unlimitedfutures — 11 days ago
▲ 141 r/blackmen

This happened to me last year when I was just parked at the gas station answering a call: "Black Man walking his dog gets Cops called on him after refusing to answer the questions of 2 Random White Guys"

H/T u/Master_Canary440

Context of my (separate and unrelated) incident (in Atlanta):

I was pumping gas at a QuikTrip on a Saturday night and I got a call that I was expecting. So I answered.

Loopy middle aged white dude walked up to my car window and interrogated me like he was supposed to.

I ignored him and went back to my phone conversation.

Within 10 minutes, a Chamblee police officer (young Hispanic woman) pulled up and told me that I was accused of loitering.

I checked my phone again and the I showed her I have been on the call for less than 12 minutes, and I was about to get back on the road. I suggested to her that the camera recordings of the gas station would confirm how long I was there.

She asked for my ID anyway. I obliged.

When she gave me back my ID, I told her to check that man's ID because he was "loitering" for as long as I was there.

Then I drove away. Kept calm and carried on.

u/unlimitedfutures — 11 days ago
▲ 645 r/HBCU+1 crossposts

Students of Lincoln University (PA) attending a lecture taught by Albert Einstein, who said during a speech at LU: "The separation of the races is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people." (original photo taken in 1946 and colorized photo produced in 2018)

The legendary African American photojournalist John W. Mosley took the original photo.

u/veggytheropoda produced the colorized photo.

u/unlimitedfutures — 12 days ago
▲ 130 r/Atlanta

Atlanta political history trivia: After serving as a city councilman for 5 years (1982-1986), John Lewis was not seen as the most likely candidate to become the first black Congressman from GA since Reconstruction. He was the underdog who defeated state senator Julian Bond in the Democratic primary.

u/unlimitedfutures — 14 days ago
▲ 64 r/blackmen

One of my favorite quotes by birthday boy John Brown (who admired and learned from the most important American woman in its entire history, Harriet Tubman)

The bromance between Brown and Tubman:

https://jacobin.com/2022/06/juneteenth-john-brown-harriet-tubman-abolitionist-slavery-south-emancipation

That favorite John Brown quote of mine also happens to be his last words. He wrote them down before he was executed for the most patriotic "treason" death sentence.

u/unlimitedfutures — 14 days ago
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One of my favorite quotes by birthday boy John Brown (who admired and learned from the most important American woman in its entire history, Harriet Tubman)

u/unlimitedfutures — 14 days ago
▲ 2.1k r/sagsavages+2 crossposts

Call it performative but I still love it for the ancestors: Tennessee state representative Justin Jones (D-Nashville) burns a Confederate flag in response to the partisan gerrymandering that will eliminate all existing black-majority US House districts in Tennessee

H/T u/Brave_Client1868

Edit: Title should read "House districts in Tennessee and Louisiana." Both state legislatures are in the process of re-drawing their Congressional districts. As a result, Congressional districts TN-9, LA-2, and LA-6 will no longer exist in their current forms.

One more thing, to all the FBAs and black MAGAs, us melanated folk have always been and will always be the enemies of the white conservatives regardless of what you think.

u/InformationIcy735 — 15 days ago
▲ 222 r/BlackHistoryPhotos+1 crossposts

2nd Lieutenant Andrew D. Turner completed 69 missions and over 400 hours of combat flying his Red Tail in WW2: Among the most difficult and dangerous missions that the Tuskegee Airmen took on was flying P-51 Mustangs and P-47 Thunderbolts to escort US bombers over Europe as they pounded Nazi Germany

u/unlimitedfutures — 16 days ago