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[phoenixgirl 🦅🦂 @DegreesHunnid]

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[Adémọ́lá. @OgbeniDemola]

A must read!

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Selma Burke was a sculptor & member of the Harlem Renaissance movement, best known for her bas-relief portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt

She never received credit for her portrait of President Franklin D. Roosevelt which was later featured on the US dime. #WomensHistoryMonth

—In 1943, Franklin D. Roosevelt sat for a portrait by a young African-American artist from Mooresville. That artist was Selma Burke.

However, John R. Sinnock’s signature is on the dime, and he receives credit for the work while Burke’s portrait, which she spent two years working on, is only recognized as an inspiration and model for the final image used on the coin. According to Lisa E. Farrington, author of “Creating Their Own Image, The History of African-American Women Artists,” Sinnock made “barely perceptible alterations.”

HONORS

As well as a sculptor, Burke was also a lifelong student and educator, winning numerous awards and fellowships. She earned her first degree from Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina and eventually graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia.

She started her first art school in 1940, eventually starting her second in 1946, and opened the Selma Burke Art Center in Pittsburgh, which operated from 1968 to 1981.

Burke is an honorary member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority. She received several honorary doctorate degrees during her lifetime, including one awarded by Livingston College in 1970 and one from Spelman College in 1988.

Milton Shapp, then-governor of Pennsylvania, declared July 29, 1975, Selma Burke Day in recognition of the artist's contributions to art and education. Her papers and archive are in the collection of Spelman College.

Burke was a member of the first group of women – along with Louise Nevelson, Alice Neel, Georgia O'Keefe, and Isabel Bishop – to receive lifetime achievement awards from the Women's Caucus for Art, in 1979. She received the award from President Jimmy Carter in a private ceremony in the Oval Office.

She received a Candace Award from the National Coalition of 100 Black Women in 1983 and the Pearl S. Buck Foundation Women's Award in 1987.

She died in 1995 at the age of 94.

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[Mzilikazi wa Afrika @IamMzilikazi]

“Each time I want to fight for African rights, I use only one hand because the other hand is busy trying to keep away Africans who are fighting me.” ~ Benjamin Burombo #WakeUpEverybody✊🏿

[Great Zulu👑 @SuperiorZulu]

Things still haven't changed.

[non aesthetic things @PicturesFoIder]

a father’s reaction to his daughter choosing a black man for prom...

[Qhawe @Qhawe___L]

This is nothing,The whole Phoenix community came out for blood in numbers,casually beating,harassing,burning & killing any Black person & torching their cars on sight.

We natives need remember who & where we are,stop being cowards & do the right thing.

[Sabelo ka Lindamkhonto vi @SabzerAzoh]

Homemade: sun dried mango slices and dried peaches, no preservatives. Ngiyakuthanda ukudla okulungiswe yizandla zami👐🏿 ngokuba kubusisekile.💚

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

Harvard Genetics Professor concluded that Africans are the only pure humans on earth and every other race carry the Neanderthal DNA.

Seperate group of scientists from the University of Washington, carried out a study on the same subject matter, and discovered the same results. Their names are Dr. Benjamin Vernot and Dr. Joshua Akey.

Africans are genetically stronger than other groups. Black babies start walking and learn coordination faster than any other race. Africans have the most genetic diversity of any human on Earth.

They don't teach you these things in school because they don't want you to know who you really are.

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

YOU WILL NEVER LEARN THAT IN SCHOOL!!!

ABUBAKAR KEITA II
Sultan Abubakr Keita II of the Mali Empire, the predecessor of Mansa Musa, sailed to America 180 years before Christopher Columbus.

The court tradition of Mali and documents in Cairo tell of an African king, Mansa Abubakr (Abubakar) Keita II, setting out on the Atlantic in 1311.

He commandereed a fleet of large ships, well stocked with food, gold and water and embarked from the Senegambia coast, the Western borders of this west African empire, entering the Canaries current 'a river in the middle of the sea' ... as the captain of a preceding fleet (of which only one ship returned), described it.

Neither of the two Mandingo fleets came back to Mali to tell their story, but around this same time evidence of contact between West Africans and Mexicans appears in strata in America in an overwhelming combination of artifacts and cultural parallels.

A black haired, black bearded figure in white robes, one of the representations of Quetzalcoatl, modeled on a dark-skinned outsider, appears in paintings in the valley of Mexico while the Aztecs began to worship a Negroid figure mistaken for their god Tezcatlipoca because he had the right ceremonial color.

#Africa

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Thread of the most beautiful libraries on Earth

1. Royal Portuguese Cabinet of Reading, Brazil 🇧🇷

[Toan Truong @LearningToan]

I'm 18.

I’m obsessed with learning how to learn.

So, I spent 200+ hours studying how geniuses, prodigies, and high performers master their disciplines.

Here's what I found on how to master anything faster:

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Africa is portrayed as a continent without history before slavery and colonialism. African History isn't known by many people compared to the history of Europe, Americas, and Asia.

Some of the world's great civilisations such as Mali flourished in Africa.

A THREAD!

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

Remember, Slavery is not African history. Slavery interrupted African History. Now it’s time to move on to another greatness.

When you teach your kids about slavery also teach them about the several great African Empires and kingdoms that once ruled the earth with a booming economy, teach them about African inventions, education, medicine, writings, ancient clothings, exploration, mathematics, African mythology, sports, wrestling, metallurgy and culture etc.

Teach them about our great queens who fought colonialism, teach them about the kings who fought slavery and tried to protect his people.

Teach them about our lands which is the promise land and its richness. Teach them about the moors who ruled and brought civilizations into Europe, teach them about our several ancient trading system around the world. Teach them about how we ended up this way. Never forget to teach them about the traitors, puppets and thieves that colluded with the enemies. #Africa

[$ilva 💸 @TheSilvapr]

It really makes you sad when you can’t afford basic things. I pray God comes through for everyone.

[African @ali_naka]

This is @EFFSouthAfrica - What are you following being a Member of an Organisation or Grouping?

[Paul Mnisi 𓋹𓍑𓋴 @Mnisi__weMvula]

The scramble for cobalt is putting the people of Congo🇨🇩in a dire situation 💔. #FreeCongo

[Man’s NOT Barry Roux @AdvoBarryRoux]

Nothing excites the UNEDUCATED than seeing a GRADUATE struggling to find a job.

[Unkonfined @unkonfined]

Cutting people off is strictly about peace, no beef at all.

Just distance, silence and self respect.