Akinyele Oluwole

Child of GOD, Husband to be, Employee, Son, Grandson, Cousin , Godfather, Mentee, Friend, Mentor, Brother, Sinfonian, Independent Business Owner Deut. 8:18

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

The West won’t like this, as Aliko Dangote promised to end Africa’s exploitation of raw, unprocessed materials if given the chance.

[Black Journals @blackJournals01]

NEVER FORGET: Malcolm X was only 39 when his life was cut short. His demand for Black dignity remains relevant even today

He challenged Black Americans to look beyond the history they had been given and ask deeper questions about their names, identity, ancestry, and culture.

Malcolm X wasn't simply demanding that America treat Black people better. He was questioning the entire political structure that kept Black people dependent on it

He was asking what Black people could organize, control, protect, and build for themselves.

And that political evolution was still unfolding when Malcolm X was assassinated at just 39 years old.

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

Happy heavenly birthday to Fannie Lou Hamer! A Mississippi sharecropper who became one of the boldest voices for voting rights this country has ever heard, she proved that courage is contagious. Let's carry that courage with us this election season and honor her legacy at the ballot box.

[Ave @SebastianAvenue]

“I am sick and tired of being sick and tired." 

Happy Birthday
Fannie Lou Hamer

[Powered by the Culture @poweredculture]

In 1939, 20-year-old Jesse Lee Bond was lynched in Tennessee after asking a store for a receipt. More than eight decades later, his great-granddaughter, Kyra Harris Bolden, made history at just 34 years old as the first Black woman to serve on the Michigan Supreme Court.

[Black Journals @blackJournals01]

One of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century died in a county welfare home and was buried in an unmarked grave in a segregated cemetery.

Her neighbours took up a collection for the funeral. It was not enough for a headstone. Zora Neale Hurston. 1960.

She had published four novels, two books of folklore, an autobiography and dozens of essays. She had travelled the South and Haiti collecting stories that would otherwise have been lost entirely. She wrote "Their Eyes Were Watching God" in seven weeks.

By the 1950s she was out of print and working as a maid in Florida. A newspaper found her in 1950 cleaning a house, and ran it as a human interest story: a once-famous author, scrubbing somebody's floor.

She had a stroke and went into the St Lucie County welfare home. She died there in January 1960, aged sixty-nine.

She was buried in the Garden of Heavenly Rest, the Black cemetery in Fort Pierce, in a plot nobody marked.

Thirteen years later a young writer named Alice Walker went to Florida to find her. She walked into a waist-high field of weeds and snakes, shouting Zora's name, until her foot sank into a depression in the ground.
She bought a headstone. It reads: "A Genius of the South."

Hurston is now taught in every American literature course in the country. Her books were out of print for a quarter of a century, and she went into the ground with nothing on top of her.

[Joel Osteen @JoelOsteen]

God is not intimidated by the size of your request. When it brings Him honor, displays His power, that gets His attention. He says, “Here’s someone that believes I can do something unusual, uncommon, where people will know I am all-powerful.”

[Proud Native Americans @proud_native_am]

Did You Know?

[Lou Facts @LoufactsIGB]

Oldest living American turns 116 today.

[Black Journals @blackJournals01]

Nine children walked into Little Rock Central High. The woman who got them there had her house stoned, burned, shot at and bombed — and lost her business for it.

Daisy Bates. She was the president of the Arkansas NAACP and she ran the entire operation: selecting the students, preparing them, driving them, taking the phone calls, standing between them and the press.

Her home became the headquarters. Crosses were burned on the lawn. Rocks came through the windows with notes attached. A bomb was thrown at the house. She kept a gun and her husband kept watch at night for months.

She and her husband also published a newspaper, the Arkansas State Press. White businesses pulled every advertisement. In 1959 it closed.

She had built that paper over sixteen years. It was the thing she owned.

She lost it because she would not stop organising.

There is a state holiday in Arkansas now that carries her name. Her house is a national historic landmark. She has a statue in the United States Capitol as of 2024.

She got the statues eventually. She never got the newspaper back.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

“The birth of Egyptology was thus marked by the need to destroy the memory of Negro Egypt at any cost and in all minds.”

—Cheikh Anta Diop

[Joel Osteen @JoelOsteen]

The Psalmist said, “Praise Him for His unequalled greatness. Praise Him for His mighty works. Praise Him for His majestic power.” You may be limited, but He's unlimited. We’re natural, but He’s supernatural.

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

During World War 2, the U.S. military carefully segregated blood plasma by black and white donors.

During World War II, the U.S. military segregated blood plasma by race, labeling donations as either “Black” or “White.” This was done despite the fact that medical science had already established that blood has no race and that plasma is biologically identical regardless of the donor’s skin color.

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

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[Joel Osteen @JoelOsteen]

Psalm 1 says, “If we'll meditate on God's Word day and night, we'll be like a tree planted along the riverbank, bearing fresh fruit every month, never dropping a leaf, always in blossom.” God designed us to always be in blossom. In every season, you can bear fruit. Your leaf shall not wither.

[Joel Osteen @JoelOsteen]

Sometimes we try to hide our struggles, not just from people, but from God. We know we’re not measuring up. We should do better. When we get it all together, then we can go to God. But God knows everything about you and He doesn’t find fault. He’s not disqualifying you. He’s here to help you overcome.

[Ave @SebastianAvenue]

September 12, 1992, Mae Jemison would become the first Black woman to travel into Space. She served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavor which she orbited the Earth for nearly eight days on September 12–20, 1992. ❤️👩🏾‍🚀

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

May Steve Biko soul continue to rest in perfect peace 🕊️

[New York Amsterdam News @NYAmNews]

Twelve Black FDNY firefighters died on 9/11, however, their heroism is often overlooked. Today, while we honor all those lost on that horrific day, we shed light on these heroes.

Read more here: https://t.co/EOubVnCqf4

#Sept11

[Joel Osteen @JoelOsteen]

The Scripture says, “When the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of God raises up a barrier.” Sometimes there’s a flood of heartbreak, a flood of anxiety, a flood of trouble. That’s when He steps in and raises up a barrier.