Zakiya

Mother, Friend, Soulmate, Traveler, and lover of life.

[Dr. Thema @drthema]

Give yourself closure.

Revolving doors delay healing.

Set the boundary and keep it.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

34 years ago today, Dr. Huey P. Newton, the Co-founder of the Black Panther Party, was shot and killed in the streets of Oakland, California.

On August 22, 1989, co-founder of the Black Panther Party For Self Defense (BPP) Huey P. Newton was murdered. Newton was fatally shot on Center Street in the Lower Bottoms neighborhood of West Oakland by a 24-year-old Black Guerrilla Family member. His last words to his killer before being shot twice in the head were,

You can kill my body, and you can take my life, but you can never kill my soul. My soul will live forever!��

Newton’s killer, Tyrone Robinson, was convicted of the murder in 1991 and sentenced to up to 32 years to life in prison.

Born in born in Monroe, Louisiana February 17, 1942, Huey Newton attended the University of California, Santa Cruz and studied law attaining his Bachelor’s Degree and PhD. While Newton attended Merritt College in California, Newton and his comrade, Chairman Bobby Seale, organized the Black Panther Party for Self Defense in October 1966 with Huey as Minister of Defense. The BPP achieved national and international recognition through their active role in the Black Liberation Movement and in politics dealing with race relations of the 1960s and 1970s. The Party’s political agenda included better housing, better jobs, and proper education for all Black people, which was all documented in their Ten-Point Program.

In the years leading up to Newton’s death, the BPP was under heavy ridicule from the powers that be and classified as a hate group. In time the BPP was dismantled as it’s leaders were either killed, imprisoned or addicted to drugs. Still even today the works an ideas of the prolific leader Huey P. Newton live on.

(black panther party formation thread below)

[Bishop Talbert Swan @TalbertSwan]

I see wypipo are real mad about @missjillscott’s remix of slaveholder Francis Scott Key’s Star Spangled Banner.

Good.

“Oh say can you see by the blood in the streets / That this place doesn’t smile on you colored child / Whose blood built this land with sweat and their hands / But we’ll die in this place and your memory erased / Oh say, does this truth hold any weight / This is not the land of the free, but the home of the slaves!”

#NationalAnthem

[Missy Elliott @MissyElliott]

I can’t stop crying😩😩😩 I am from Portsmouth Virginia aka P-Town.. #757 to 804 I send my love💜You day dream of these moments but today it’s Real😩🙏🏾💜 VA 2 up 2 down the 7 Cities all my folk I am GRATEFUL💜🙏🏾

[Zakiya @25sankofa]

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[Zakiya @25sankofa]

I completed the February challenge faster than 99.9% of all learners on Duolingo!

[Zakiya @25sankofa]

How in TF is it inappropriate to play black christmas music in a black owned business?

[Dr. Thema @drthema]

May the seeds that cost you so much and the seeds you forgot you sowed produce a harvest that amazes you.

[Zakiya @25sankofa]

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[Zakiya @25sankofa]

Look how much I learned on Duolingo in 2022! How did you do? #Duolingo365

[Dr. Thema @drthema]

Gathering and giving thanks.

[Tenoch Huerta Mejía @TenochHuerta]

¡¿Quién va este fin a verla?!
#PanteraNegra #WakandaPorSiempre
Sólo en cines

[La tía chicles 🦁 liona despierta @sony2332]

Pinche vato chingón 😍

[Teejay @T_Sabb]

@Phil_Lewis_ @JeriLennox I think y’all forgot who this man is

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

When you finally decide to leave your teaching job and pursue your rap career

[Zakiya @25sankofa]

I advanced to the Obsidian League on Duolingo in Spanish

[Dr. Thema @drthema]

Truth tellers, thank you.

You knew there would be a cost and you spoke up anyway.

[Dr. Thema @drthema]

Freedom looks good on you.

It didn’t come without struggle but your peace was worth the fight.