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  1. Amiri Baraka (born Everett Leroy Jones; October 7, 1934 – January 9, 2014), previously known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was an American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays, and music criticism. He was the author of numerous books of poetry and taught at several universities...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiri_Ba

    #blackwriters #blackpoets #blackmen #blackamerican #blackpeople #blacktivists

  2. Jamil Abdullah al-Amin (born Hubert Gerold Brown; October 4, 1943), is an American human rights activist, Muslim cleric, and black separatist who was the fifth chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the 1960s.

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    #blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #blacktivists #blackmuslims #blackmuslimclerics #blackseparatists

  3. Ruby Nell Bridges Hall (born September 8, 1954) is an American civil rights activist. She was the first African American child to attend formerly whites-only William Frantz Elementary School in

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    #blackwomen #blackpeople #blackamerican #whitepeople #blacktivists #blackmastodon #blackhistory

  4. Becoming Frederick Douglass released in 2022

    Frederick was a survivor of this institution, that could communicate the inhumanity of slavery in a way that nobody before him had ever done.

    imdb.com/title/tt21342268

    #movie #blackmovie #greatmovie #blackmen #blackamerican #blackhistory #WendellPierce #blackmastodon

  5. @markizmarketing

    Tunis Campbell [Sr.], a Black [Man] who built an independent community with its own schools, courts, and army in the heart of the South right after slavery ended. He gave Black [People] land, protection, and power, and the system tried to crush him for it.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunis_Ca.

    #blackmen #blackamerican #blackhistory #blackclergymen #blacktivists #blackmagistrates #blackpoliticians #blackwriters #blackauthors #blackpublishers #blackmastodon

  6. When Black performers, including [Lena] Horne, faced racism from white neighbors in Hollywood, “’Felix Young, a white man, signed for the house

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    #blackwomen #blackactors #blacksingers #blackdancers #blacktivists #blackpeople #blackamerican #whitepeople #blackmastodon

  7. Via N

    Don't bother looking for Muhammad Ali!

    An [english] woman compares her condition to that of Black [People] in the United States and criticizes Muhammad Ali for his [alleged] arrogance. The champion's response is swift!

    #blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #blackathletes #blackmuslims #blackboxers #blacktivists #blackfirsts #blackmastodon #blackhistory