💐CeleBrating HaPpiness 🧚🏽♂️ & BriNging JoY to my World ✨Thank U 4Following Me ✨Mr. @ELDeBarge Sr. ✨2moro is not promised, tell sum1 u LOVE them 2DAY‼️
A year ago today, I died on the table & was brought back w/ CPR & meds. God wasn’t finished w/me yet. God helped me to go to LA & see my @ElDeBarge in December. Thks @GDLVSME2 for pushing my wheel chair. Still recuperating. Live your best life. Life can change in an instant.🙏🏽💕
It’s February 11
Thought I’d show some appreciation to the amazing Black men out there. Please know that you are valued, needed and loved! 🤴🏾❤️🤴🏾
Happy Black History Month/Year
#BlackMen#BlackLove#BlackHistoryMonth#BlackCulture
i don’t think i’ll ever get over how this sounds like its on wax but it’s a live recording. or the fact that he sounds even better 40 years later. like this is just silky
In 1938, Lloyd Gaines filed a lawsuit after being denied admission to the University of Missouri Law School in 1935 because he was black.
The Court ruled in his favor & required Missouri to admit him or set up a black law school.
He disappeared 3 months later never to be found.
—Lloyd Lionel Gaines was born to the Gaines family in northern Mississippi in 1911. One of eleven children, seven of whom survived illness and accident, he moved with his widowed mother and siblings to St. Louis after the premature death of their father. They found a better, although not easy, life for themselves in Missouri. Gaines excelled in his studies graduating as valedictorian in 1931 from Vashon High School. At Lincoln University in Jefferson City, he graduated with honors and was President of the senior class, while participating in many extra-curricular activities and working to pay for his schooling.
Despite his outstanding scholastic record, the University of Missouri School of Law denied Gaines admittance in 1936 solely on the grounds that Missouri's Constitution called for "separate education of the races." By state law, Missouri would have been required to pay for Gaines to attend the Universities in Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska, but Gaines was determined to fight for the right to attend law school in his own state university. He sought legal assistance from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), which had been working systematically to overturn the ignominious precedent of "separate but equal" established in Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896. Together, they challenged the University of Missouri's admissions policies. In 1938, Gaines won his case before the United States Supreme Court in State of Missouri ex rel Gaines v. Canada, paving the way for a series of cases that would lead to Brown v. Board of Education's outlawing segregation in public education. In March 1939, only three months after his Supreme Court victory, Lloyd Gaines was last seen in Chicago. He disappeared at age 28 with his promise of attending law school in Missouri unfilfilled. Lloyd Gaines was never to be seen or heard from again.
The DEBARGE Family Ladies & Gentlemen… just a quick reminder of this family who have given us Classics after Classics & if you are in music & dont know of them take some time & listen to their catelog it’s worth your time! I promise😉🙌🏾
I feel we don’t talk about this family enough for their CONTRIBUTION to music it should be discussed from the LYRICS the HARMONIES the BRIDGES and their BEAUTY! They been through alot but I want to thank the DEBARGE family for the TIMELESS MUSIC that will 4ever live on💜🙏🏾
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💜🙏🏾