#blackamerican — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #blackamerican, aggregated by home.social.
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Toni Morrison would have been 95 today.
Dr Dre is 61 today.
Audre Lorde would have been 92 today.
John Travolta is 72 today.
#blackwomen #blackamerican #blackicons #blackwriters #movie #blackmusic #blackmastodon
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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...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiri_Baraka
#blackwriters #blackpoets #blackmen #blackamerican #blackpeople #blacktivists
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In his attempts to convert gang members in Chicago to adopt nonviolent principles, he endured nine beatings without resistance.
James Edward Orange (October 29, 1942 – February 16, 2008)
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#blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #blactivists #blackmastodon
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Gaylon Alcaraz (born October 26, 1966) is an American community organizer and human rights activist in Chicago, Illinois. She is the former executive director of the Chicago Abortion Fund.
Career
In 1997, Alcaraz became a founding board member of Affinity Community Services, an organization dedicated to developing leadership skills for black lesbian and bisexual women.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaylon_Alcaraz
#blackwomen #blackpeople #blackamerican #blackLGBTQ #blactivists #blackcommunityorganizers
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Ruchell Cinque Magee (born Ruchell Lewis; 17 March 1939 – October 17, 2023) was [a Black] American man who spent most of his life
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#blacklivesstillmatter #blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #police #whitepeople #whitedevil #blackhistory #blactivists #blackadvocates #blackmastodon
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Renee Cox (born October 16, 1960) is a Jamaican-American artist, photographer, lecturer, political activist and curator.
Background
Cox has "dedicated her career to deconstructing stereotypes and to reconfiguring the black woman's body, using her nude form as a subject."(1/24)
#blackwomen #blackpeople #blackamerican #blackmastodon #blackcaribbean #blackartists #blackphotographers #blacklecturers #blactivists #blackcurators
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James Arthur Baldwin (neé Jones; August 2, 1924 – December 1, 1987)
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#blacklivesstillmatter #blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #police #whitepeople #whitedevil #blackcreatives #blackhistory #blackwriters #blacktivists #blackgay #blackLGBTQ #blackmastodon
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Edward Leroy Loper Sr. (April 7, 1916 – October 11, 2011) was an African American artist and teacher. He taught painting for almost 70 years.
Artist beginnings
In 1936, during the Great Depression, Loper started working in Delaware for the Works Progress Administration (WPA),(1/5)
#blacklivesstillmatter #blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #police #whitepeople #whitedevil #blackcreatives #blackhistory #blackartists #blackteachers #blackmastodon
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Mary Ann Camberton Shadd Cary (October 9, 1823 – June 5, 1893) was [a Black] American-Canadian anti-slavery activist, journalist, publisher, teacher, and lawyer. She was the first [Black Woman] publisher in North America and the first woman publisher in Canada.
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#blackwomen #blackpeople #blackamerican #blactivists #blackjournalists #blackpublishers #blackteachers #blacklawyers #blackmastodon
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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
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James Morris Lawson Jr. (born Sept 22 1928)
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#blacklivesstillmatter #blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #police #whitepeople #whitedevil #blacktivists #blackprofessors #blackmastodon #blackhistory
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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
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Charles Hamilton Houston (September 3, 1895 – April 22, 1950) was [a Black] American lawyer. He was the dean of Howard University Law School and NAACP first special counsel.
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#blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #blacklawyers #blacksoldiers #blackfirsts #blackleaders #blackmastodon
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Brooklyn's Finest released in 2009
If you have to shoot a friend, get them to have a good laugh first.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1210042
#movie #blacklivesstillmatter #blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #police #whitepeople #whitedevil #blackactors #DonCheadle #WesleySnipes #MichaelKennethWilliams #HassanJohnson #blackmastodon
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David Walker (September 28, 1796 – August 6, 1830)
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#blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #blackabolitionists #blackwriter #blactivists
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Barry White died 22 years ago today
Bill Withers would have been 87 today
Today is the 44th anniversary of the Toxteth [Uprising]
#blackamerican #blackbritish #blacksingers #blackrevolutionaries #blacktivists #liverpoolmastodon #britishmastodon #blackmastodon
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Kwame Ture (born Stokely Standiford Churchill Carmichael; June 29, 1941 – November 15, 1998)
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#blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #blacktivists #blackcaribbean #blackhistory #blackfirsts #blackleaders #blackpanthers #blackmastodon
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@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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunis_Campbell_Sr.
#blackmen #blackamerican #blackhistory #blackclergymen #blacktivists #blackmagistrates #blackpoliticians #blackwriters #blackauthors #blackpublishers #blackmastodon
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"Pretending to be Mexican, Native or South Asian helped Black Americans AVOID Jim Crow laws
Langston hughes passed as Mexican to avoid Jim Crow"
@PJenkins1931
#blackmen #blackamerican #blackpoets #blacktivists #blacknovelists #blackplaywrights #blackcolumnists #blackleaders #blackmastodon
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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
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Prince would have been 67 on Saturday
Lance Reddick would have been 63 Saturday
Muammar Al-Gaddafi would have been 82 Saturday(1/3)
#blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #blackfirsts #blacktivists #blacksingers #blackmusicians #blacksongwriters #blackactors #arab #blackmastodon
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"Urban renewal means negro removal"
- James Baldwin
#blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #blackwriters #blackauthors #blacktivists #blackessayists #blackplaywrights #blackorators #blackfirsts #blackgay #blackhomosexuals #blacklgbtq #blackhistory #blackconsciousness #blackmastodon
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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
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Cornel West is 72 today.
Bo Diddley died 17 years ago today.
Morena Baccarin, who is partly African, is 46 today.
#blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #blachistory #blackphilosophers #blacktheologians #blacktivists #blackpoliticians #blacksocialcritics #blackintellectuals #blackfirsts #blackguitarists #blacksingers #biracial #italy #lebanon #brazil #WOC #POC #multiracial #african #blackmastodon
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"There is no form of protest against racism that is acceptable to racists."
Bernice King
#blackwomen #the92percent #blackpeople #blackamerican #blacklawyers #blackministers #blackmastodon
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Malcolm X would have been 100 on May 19th 2025
#blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #blackmuslims #blackrevolutionaries #blacktivists #blackmastodon
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Carter Godwin Woodson (December 19, 1875 – April 3, 1950) was an American historian, author, journalist, and the founder of
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#blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #blackhistorians #blackwriters #blackauthors #blackjournalists #blackfounders #blackhistory #blackmastodon
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Alien³ released in 1992
The emergant alien looks similar to those in Alien: Covenant 2017
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103644
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2316204
#film #greatfilm #blackactors #blackprotagonists #blackfilm #CarmenEjogo #CharlesSDutton #blackwomen #blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #blackbritish #blackscots #britishnigerian #blackbiracial #greathorror #greatscifi #blackmastodon
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John Aaron Lewis (May 3, 1920 – March 29, 2001) was an American jazz pianist, composer and arranger, best known as the founder and musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lewis_(pianist)
#blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #blackhistory #blackjazzpianists #blackpianists #blackmusicians #blackcomposers #blackarrangers #blackfounders #blackmusicaldirectors #blackdirectors #blackmastodon
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Walter Francis White (July 1, 1893 – March 21, 1955) was [a visually white Black] American civil rights activist who led the
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#blackmen #blackpeople #blackamerican #visuallywhite #blacktivists #blackessayists #blackjournalists #blacknovelists #blackmastodon