On this day in 1831, Freedom fighter Nat Turner saw a solar eclipse, which he believed was a sign from God and he started what is considered the most deadly slave revolt, the Nat Turner Rebellion, which sparked the events leading to civil war.
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Can someone explain this? If I was in that store, she would have been charged. This is dangerous and unsanitary. They do this to go viral. If a man did this, he would be in prison and registering as a sex offender. Lock her up!
New Jersey father, Anthony Collins, sentenced to 3-years in prison after fatally punching white man who hit his wife with a bike and repeatedly called his children the n-word, Judge says he should have called the police instead.
Are you aware that white people created the Ku Klux Klan?
Are you aware that white people committed genocide against indigenous people, stole their land, enslaved Africans and raped, lynched, murdered, brutalized, and dehumanized them long before there were Democrats or Republicans?
Are you aware that the wicked treatment of Black people was never based on political party affiliation but strictly on a false perception of white superiority and manifest destiny?
Are you aware that Democrats, Republicans, America First Party, Labor Party, Dixiecrats, Federalist Party, Whig, and every other defunct or current political party created by white folks has supported a white supremacist agenda?
Are you aware that Black people have been mistreated by white folks of all political parties and are too smart to let you gaslight us and tell us that anti-Black racism is a Democrat vs Republican thing and not a white thing?
@grahammt I read your incredibly stupid article actually defending the antics and comments made by Noah Lyles. I couldn't believe what I was reading. You actually made an excuses for his comments against the NBA. Somehow you saw their tweet as "classless" and deemed his remarks as fun jab
Marshall “Major” Taylor was the fastest bicyclist in the world. Thousands of fans packed indoor sports arenas called velodromes to watch his high-speed races. Taylor won thousands of dollars as a bicycle racer and became the most famous African-American in the United States. He broke the international color barrier a full decade before boxer Jack Johnson.
—Marshall "Major" Taylor was an American cyclist who won the world 1 mile track cycling championship in 1899 after setting numerous world records and overcoming racial discrimination.
Taylor was the 1st African-American athlete to achieve the level of world champion and only the 2nd Black man to win a world championship—after Canadian boxer George Dixon.
Taylor turned professional in 1896 at the age of 18 and soon emerged as the "most formidable racer in America." One of his biggest supporters was President Theodore Roosevelt who kept track of Taylor throughout his 17-year racing career.
RACISM IN THE FIELD:
Although he was greatly celebrated abroad, particularly in France, Taylor's career was still held back by racism, particularly in the Southern states where he was not permitted to compete against Caucasians.
The League of American Wheelmen for a time excluded Black people from membership. Other prominent bicycle racers of the era, such as Tom Cooper and Eddie Bald, often cooperated to ensure Taylor's defeat.
During his career he had ice water thrown at him during races, and nails scattered in front of his wheels, and was often boxed in by other riders, preventing the sprints to the front of the pack at which he was so successful.
DEATH:
Taylor was still breaking records in 1908 but age was starting to "creep up on him." He finally quit the track in 1910 at the age of 32.
While Taylor was reported to have earned between $25,000 and $30,000 a year when he returned to Worcester at the end of his career, by the time of his death he had lost everything to bad investments (including self-publishing his autobiography), persistent illness, and the stock market crash.
LEGACY:
🚴🏿The Major Taylor Velodrome in Indianapolis was opened in July 1982 for the U.S. Olympic Festival.
🚴🏿Taylor was posthumously inducted into the United States Bicycling Hall of Fame in 1989.
🚴🏿In April 2002, Taylor was one of the nine track cyclists inducted into the UCI Hall of Fame, created to commemorate 100 years of the Paris–Roubaix one-day road race and the inauguration of the World Cycling Centre.
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Here is an old CNN story on Kamala Harris where she was almost being portrayed as the next Gandhi …
Where was all the collard greens, hot sauce, and Tupac?
When did the performative Blackness start?
@MsJuicyGenius The hell are you talking about??! Both parties are against reparations and EXCLUSIVELY creating bills and laws that protect black people! 🤨
Suspected white supremacist race soldier Sean Grayson, who racially executed Sonya Massey, has the Totenkopf tattoos on his arm, and these symbolisms are also associated with Neo-nazi/white supremacist groups