#blackfirsts — Public Fediverse posts

Benedict Wallet Vilakazi (6 January 1906 – 26 October 1947) was a South African novelist, linguist, a descendant of the Zulu royal family, and a radically innovative poet who created a combination of traditional and Romantic poetry in the Zulu language

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Michaela Mabinty DePrince (born Mabinty Bangura; January 6, 1995 –

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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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Dorothea Towles Church (born Dorthy Mae Towles; July 26, 1922 – July 7, 2006) was the first successful [Black] fashion model in Paris…

Racial barriers
Church recalled her experience

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William Henry Cosby Jr. (born July 12, 1937) is an American comedian, actor, and media personality.

Trial, conviction, and conviction overturn
…On April 26, 2018,

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Via AL

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Here is my alarm:

Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force - Planet Rock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J3lwZjHenA

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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

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"Urban renewal means negro removal"

- James Baldwin

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@penny_moss shared:

'Naomi Campbell Explains Her Reluctance to Do Interviews in [england], “The [british] media, Campbell maintained,

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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.

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Edward Franklin Frazier (September 24, 1894 – May 17, 1962), was an American sociologist and author... His 1932 Ph.D.

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Yes, Chuck Berry Invented Rock ‘n’ Roll

https://www.billboard.com/music/features/chuck-berry-rock-n-roll-teenagers-inventor-7735698/

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Spartacus released in 1960

The token Black actor Woody Strode is later scripted as a man willing to die rather than

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Kenneth Bancroft Clark (July 24, 1914 – May 1, 2005) and

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