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Clyde Stubblefield played it once in Cincinnati, and the whole world has been looping it ever since.
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Civil Rights activist, Gloria Richardson with the greatest “Boy Bye” as she removes the rifle of a National Guardsman from her way during a 1963 Civil Rights Protest.
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Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state.
The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via @tmsimmons) greensboro.com/news/local/go…
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#OTD André Leon Talley (Oct 16, 1949 - Jan 18, 2022). 1st Black male creative director at Vogue from 1988 to 1995. He later served as editor-at-large from 1998 to 2013. He was known for advocating for diversity in the fashion industry and supporting emerging designers.
#History
🎁 nytimes.com/2022/01/19/style…
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#OTD Oct 15, 1966: The Black Panther Party (BPP) was founded Oakland, CA, by college students Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. The 2 met at Merritt College in Oakland, CA. It was a revolutionary organization with an ideology of Black nationalism, socialism and armed self-defense, particularly against police brutality.
‘The Panther 21 Explained: Afeni Shakur & Tupac Shakur + Huey P Newton & Fred Hampton’
‘The Women of the Black Panther Party’
#History
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Creepy Cinema continues this evening with @BenMank77 and @macantone as they present tonight's lineup featuring the one-and-only Angela Lansbury!
We start with her performance in GASLIGHT ('44) followed by SWEENY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET ('82) at 8pm ET.
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Police sexually assault Black middle school girl—call it a "full body search."
"They proceeded to intrusively touch in between her breasts," mom said.
"Under her breasts and down between her hips."
All over a rumored cell phone.
"I felt violated," the 14 year old girl said.
"But didn't even understand that you’ve been violated because you seeing everybody get violated, too."
Shanayah Mosley said her daughter—along with all other students—already pass through a metal detector on the way into school.
"There was no just cause for a search in the first place," she said.
The student resource officer has been reassigned to regular patrol duty pending an investigation.
Incident occurred at Bessemer City Middle School in Bessemer, Alabama
Alabama’s Focus Act passed last year does make it against state law for students to use a cell phone at school.
Posting first full length and credited video here to help raise awareness.
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53 years ago today, Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson's "Winter in America" was recorded.
Spoken-word and jazz-soul, with “The Bottle” as the standout and the rest of the set more inward.
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51 years ago today, Grover Washington Jr.'s "Feels So Good" was released.
From his Kudu years, and a smooth-jazz landmark. Washington on soprano and tenor over polished, radio-ready grooves, led by the title track.
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Famed soprano Martina Arroyo has died. She was 90.
With her luminous voice and ease on stage, the Harlem native broke barriers as one of the first major Black opera stars in the 1960s and 1970s.
She was also familiar to the nation's TV viewers at the time as a frequent guest on Johnny Carson's "Tonight Show."
In 2013, she was honored by the Kennedy Center, just one of her many awards.
Arroyo announced her retirement in 1989 and devoted herself to teaching.
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60 years ago, The Supremes' "You Keep Me Hangin' On" was released as a single.
Written and produced by Holland–Dozier–Holland for Diana Ross and the Supremes. A harder, more urgent Motown single than the group’s earlier ballads
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The National Guard is walking up and down the sidewalks in Petworth a historic residential neighborhood in D.C thats known to be quiet & peaceful. A man came out with his bullhorn and followed them letting them know they aren’t wanted there. Is this just the beginning.
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Ep 4 — The Making of Masterpieces: Pieces Of A Man by Gil Scott-Heron
The record that put 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised' to a band, and the story behind it.
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There's over 4,000 confirmed cases of measles nationwide, which is the highest annual total in decades.
Just to be perfectly clear, measles is a completely preventable disease.
The US officially declared measles eliminated back in 2000, so the fact that it's returned to multi-decade highs is a colossal public health failure for our country.
RFK is the current leader of the federal agency responsible for solving this crisis... and he has a long history of downplaying the severity of measles, and casting doubt on the measles vaccine.
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Senator My Boo smiles, David 🩷
