#OIIIIIIIO And the home of the #JETS💚💚💚 "Knowledge speaks, wisdom listens." -Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) Lawyer/Librarian/Part Wolf on Munsee Lenape land
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#Scotland is remembering Dolly Parton. What an amazing legacy…#DollyParton
We don't usually post about celebrity deaths, but Dolly Parton has to be an exception. Quite apart from the pleasure her music gave, her charity did so much to promote literacy for some of Scotland's most vulnerable children. May her memory be a blessing.
scottishbooktrust.com/readin…
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Dolly Parton spent decades quietly funding band uniforms and instruments at Black high schools across the South - never once putting her name on it. No headlines, no fanfare — just help, given because it was needed.
Rhinestones on the outside, gold on the inside. 💛
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Veteran actor Hal Williams, best known for his roles on the sitcoms “227” and “Sanford and Son,” has died at age 91, according to his manager. See more on his legacy: pix11.com/news/us-world-news…
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Did you know that MALINDA BORDEN lost her life when the RMS Titanic sank in 1912 while working on board? Lifeboats were given to White women and White children only. Black workers were not listed as passengers or counted among the victims. Instead, they were recorded as property lost in the disaster.
"... the subscriber at #Newark." 24 June 1776
Newspapers published during the era of the American Revolution contributed to the perpetuation of slavery. Advertised 250 years ago today: "RUN-away ... a certain Negro Fellow named Jack ... took with him ... his Master's Gun." (New-York Gazette & Weekly Mercury 6/24/1776)
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Abdullah Ibrahim, the South African pianist whose "Mannenberg" became an anthem of the struggle against apartheid, has died at 91. From the Jazz Epistles to Juilliard to a homecoming for a free South Africa, he turned a piano into an act of resistance. zurl.co/fAdf5
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All the former 60 Minutes journalists should start a You Tube show called, ONE HOUR. 🤣😂🤣
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Sonny Rollins, one of the most influential Jazz musicians of our time, died this afternoon. He was 95
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A Black neighborhood once stood where the Pentagon sits today. It was called Queen City.
Families lived there for years before the government seized the land and cleared the community to build the Pentagon. This is the story of what happened?‼️🤔
#ErasedHistories #pentagonHistory #ArlingtonVA #Pentagon
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Honestly- where the fuck are the people that can stop this atrocity??
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The Coloured Hockey League, founded in 1895, was led by Black athletes who created the slapshot. Their impact was groundbreaking but long overlooked.
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We really wanted to introduce you to Vanilla. She has the daintiest handshake we've ever witnessed. 14/10
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A historic Black cemetery in Palmetto, Florida, was vandalized, with graves damaged and “Trump” and “DeSantis” spray-painted across tombstones. Our ancestors deserve dignity in life and in death. Desecrating sacred burial grounds is hateful, painful, and unacceptable. We must protect Black history and honor the families impacted by this cruelty.
