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[UNAVA_46 @46Unava]

Wrong.
Naomi Whitehead is the oldest living American and her father was born enslaved in 1858.
Herida Senhouse (born Herida Fairfax) is the 2nd oldest American and all of her grandparents were born enslaved
There are plenty of living white Americans who had grandparents that owned slaves.

[AmyInDystopia @DogMeat4Amy]

@HotelLubyanka I don't own slaves. My parents didn't. My grandparents didn't. My great grandparents didn't. I could keep going back. No one alive in America today was a slave, nor their parents, grandparents, great grandparents, and most likely not their great great grandparents. No reps!

[UNAVA_46 @46Unava]

@HClarkeHolmes Shut the fuck up you don't even know where an exclamation point or a question mark goes. You're a dumb ass

[UNAVA_46 @46Unava]

Keep in mind, 40,000 Black Union soldiers also died fighting to end slavery

Should we include the 300,000 white soldiers who died trying to uphold slavery or the
thousands of Black soldiers who gave their lives fighting for 🇺🇸 during Jim Crow?

[Z @insatiablevine]

Thousands of White Americans died fighting to end Slavery and they still hate white people.

It’s never going to be good enough.

[UNAVA_46 @46Unava]

@HClarkeHolmes In combat!

Over 2/3 of all soldiers who died during the Civil War were non combat deaths. They still died while fighting to either uphold or end slavery.

[UNAVA_46 @46Unava]

@HClarkeHolmes The body count I gave is accurate.

[UNAVA_46 @46Unava]

@HClarkeHolmes what are you talking about? Which part of what I said was wrong?

[UNAVA_46 @46Unava]

@HClarkeHolmes Which part?

[#BMH365 🎶🎤 @BlackMusicHstry]

Remembering Curtis Mayfield
(@CurtisLMayfield)
(Wednesday, June 3, 1942 – Sunday, December 26, 1999)

Lineage, Origins, and Formation: A Foundational Black American singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer, label founder, and civil-rights-era musical architect, shaped by Cabrini-Green, Gospel, Chicago Soul, the Black church, and the discipline of building his own musical language.

Born on Wednesday, June 3, 1942, in Chicago, Illinois, Curtis Lee Mayfield came up through Cabrini-Green, Gospel music, and the electric Blues atmosphere of Chicago. As a teenager, he joined the group that became The Impressions, eventually helping define the Chicago Soul sound of the 1960s. A lesser-known but essential fact: Mayfield taught himself guitar by transferring his piano instincts to the instrument, tuning it around the black keys of the piano and developing the open F-sharp sound that became part of his musical signature.

With The Impressions, Mayfield helped turn Soul music into a language of dignity, movement, and public conscience. Songs like “Keep On Pushing,” “People Get Ready,” “We’re A Winner,” and “Choice of Colors” carried Gospel lift, Civil Rights urgency, and everyday Black resolve without losing their beauty. After Jerry Butler left The Impressions, Mayfield held the group together as lead singer, songwriter, and producer, building a catalog that made message music feel intimate, melodic, and unforgettable.

Mayfield’s legacy also belongs to the business side of Black music. In 1968, he created Curtom Records, giving himself greater control over his recordings, publishing, studio work, and artistic direction. His 1972 soundtrack album “Super Fly” became one of the defining Black film-soundtrack statements of the era, written, produced, and performed by Mayfield as a counter-story to the film’s street narrative. The album produced the million-selling hits “Freddie’s Dead” and “Superfly,” entered the National Recording Registry in 2018, and later stood alongside “People Get Ready” and “Move On Up” among his Grammy Hall of Fame-recognized recordings.

Additionally, Mayfield was a rare double Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, honored with The Impressions and again as a solo artist, recognized by the Songwriters Hall of Fame, received the Grammy Legend Award in 1994 and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995, and saw recordings including “People Get Ready,” “Superfly,” and “Move On Up” enter the Grammy Hall of Fame.

On Sunday, December 26, 1999, Curtis Mayfield passed in Roswell, Georgia, at age 57, after years of physical struggle following the 1990 Brooklyn stage accident that left him paralyzed from the neck down, and after serious complications from diabetes. Even after that accident, he continued creating, recording “New World Order” one vocal line at a time while lying on his back so gravity could help his breathing.

Curtis Mayfield’s legacy is not just “Super Fly,” not just The Impressions, and not just his falsetto; his legacy is the sound of a Black American man who helped Black music carry beauty, business, protest, tenderness, and warning without ever losing its own soul.

[Andy @Andy68580664]

Reconstruction lasted 12 years. It did not merely “end.” Black legislators were murdered and barbaric immigrants were unleashed on over 538 thriving Black American cities, towns, and communities. Jim Crow was quickly implemented in its place and lasted for 88 years.

[soultracks @soultrackscom]

We are so sad to report the passing of the great @dexterwansel . What an amazing musician, songwriter and producer. https://t.co/Qn08EjSM7W

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Peabo Bryson, the iconic singer-songwriter behind the Oscar-winning Disney songs "Beauty and the Beast" and "A Whole New World," has died at 75 https://t.co/zWSrgCaGch

[The Union of Black America @BurnEr92976227]

@cfreshco4700 @Me86793059 @MarocSoulaan We should be the ones who decide who belongs in our community and how closely related groups fit into it—not outside interest groups from other ethnicities that may seek to use our differences to gain influence over us.

[soultracks @soultrackscom]

Happy Birthday to “The Man Who Created Disco,” Earl Young https://t.co/IO8P3shIa3

[#BMH365 🎶🎤 @BlackMusicHstry]

Remembering Clora Bryant
(Monday, May 30, 1927 – Sunday, August 25, 2019)

Lineage, Origins, and Formation: A Foundational Black American jazz trumpeter born in Denison, Texas, to Charles and Eulila Bryant, with deep family roots in the city, formation through Black Baptist church music, Terrell High School’s band tradition, Prairie View A&M’s all woman jazz band world, and the Central Avenue bebop scene in Los Angeles.

Born Clora Larea Bryant, she was the youngest daughter of Charles and Eulila Bryant. Her musical life began in the local Baptist church choir, then sharpened at Terrell High School, where she picked up the trumpet in the marching band. That horn had first belonged to her brother, who left it behind when he entered military service, and Clora turned that inheritance into a calling.

Bryant’s path carried her from Texas to Prairie View A&M, where she joined an all girl band that gave young Black women musicians a serious training ground in a male dominated field. After moving to Los Angeles in 1945, she entered the Central Avenue world, where bebop, big band memory, jam sessions, and Black West Coast musicianship were all colliding in real time.

She went on to hold space with and around some of the most important names in jazz, including Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Harry James, Johnny Otis, Bill Berry, Linda Hopkins, and the International Sweethearts of Rhythm. In the early 1950s, she was also part of the Hollywood Sepia Tones, remembered by the Durfee Foundation as the first all woman jazz group to appear on television. In 1957, she released “Gal With a Horn,” a title that still tells the truth, even if it understated her force.

Clora Bryant was not simply “a woman who played trumpet.” She was a trumpeter, vocalist, bandleader, teacher, archive keeper, and one of the living bridges of Los Angeles jazz. In the late 1980s, she became known for a groundbreaking Soviet/Russia tour, an achievement Denison Arts Council identifies as the first Soviet Union tour by a female jazz musician.

Her legacy also lived through preservation. Bryant co-edited “Central Avenue Sounds: Jazz in Los Angeles,” helping document the very scene she helped build. Her honors included the Durfee Foundation’s 2000 Master Musician Fellowship and the Kennedy Center’s Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz recognition, both fitting for an artist whose contributions were larger than the mainstream spotlight she received.

On Sunday, August 25, 2019, Bryant transitioned in Los Angeles. She was 92 years old, leaving behind a legacy that stretched from Denison and Prairie View to Central Avenue, women’s jazz band history, bebop rooms, and jazz preservation work.

Photo: Clora Larea Bryant, via Denison Arts Council

[Infamous415 🇺🇸 @aaroncw415]

@SufiEri Amazing that this person could even type this.

An eritrean in canada is typing about proximity to whiteness.

I'd posit that a eritrean in canada is on a lifelong quest for proximity to whiteness.

[Earl Landix 🇺🇸 @EarlLandix]

Big Tre's recap of the 123rd Annual Boley Rodeo in Boley, Oklahoma.

TT: bigtretv

#BlackAmericans

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Sonny Rollins, one of the most influential Jazz musicians of our time, died this afternoon. He was 95

[MrsEvans916 @MrsEvans916]

Last Day of School Vibes Louisiana Style🪶❤️

Have a Wonderful Indian Summer!! 🪶

[UNAVA_46 @46Unava]

@kelvin45622 Thanks for this. I didn’t even think about that

[UNAVA_46 @46Unava]

My last non American ancestor may have come just prior to 1790, the year of the first census. I only assume because I couldn’t find them listed on any other records. All the rest were here prior to 1776 as far as I know and I’ve done the research.

[Nick Gerteis @nickgerteis]

@AppyOrtho So your entire family tree solely traces back to ancestors that were here before 1776? Not just many of them, or most of them—all of them? That is not impossible, but it would be extremely rare and quite frankly unlikely.