Janice R Baines

[Beinecke Library @BeineckeLibrary]

Newsweek, cover, 1969, Black Mood on Campus
https://t.co/AKOGEYM0xf

[BLACK ARCHIVES @blackarchivesco]

Baltimore, Maryland (1940s-1950s)

Photographs by Paul S. Henderson via the Maryland Center for History and Culture

[holistic mami✨ @LeArielleSimone]

my friend’s bookstore is need of help to stay open. we need more black owned spaces in brooklyn, if you can please share or donate 🙏🏾🫶🏾

[Whitney Burnett @WhitneyyBurnett]

“I’m most powerful when I’m doing my art” - Andre 3000 👽

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

This is Charles & Willa Bruce. In 1912 they bought prime beachfront land in Manhattan Beach, LA County and built a Black resort community. In 1924 the county took it and refused to pay its value. In 2021, worth $72 million, it was returned to their descendents by Senate Bill 796.

In 1912, Black Californians Charles and Willa Bruce bought a small slice of Manhattan Beach real estate for around $1,200. They built a resort for fellow Black families in the area who found themselves unwelcome at Whites-only beaches, even renting out bathing suits and selling snacks — and they were almost immediately subjected to racist attacks. Everyone from neighbors, the police, the city council, and even the Ku Klux Klan tried to close the beach down. The city imposed 10-minute parking limits near the beach to try and discourage visitors, and finally in 1924, the Manhattan Beach city council just seized the property entirely, offering the Bruces a fraction of their asking price. Today, the stretch of beach is worth around $20 million — and Los Angeles County voted to finally return it to the Bruces' descendants in 2021.

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

The 1619 Project published four years ago. Still never been invited to Essence Festival to talk about it -- or anything else. Yes, I'm salty, y'all.

[Terms of Gemini @GeminiTerms]

#Gemini hands are so sensitive they love having their fingers, nails & hands played with & touched.

[soulPhoodie @soulphoodie]

Black-Owned Whiskey Brand Uncle Nearest Hits $100M In Sales — 'They Expected us to Fail' ... https://t.co/xdjhYdamxX

[The Charlotte Post @thecharpost]

Coming home: @JCSUniversity appoints Valerie Kinloch as the school's 15th president, effective Aug. 1. She is a 1996 JCSU graduate, member of its board of trustees and currently dean of the School of Education at the University of Pittsburgh.

[afua cooper @afuacooper]

Between3-7 pm on 21 June 1734, enslaved Black women Marie Joseph Angelique, accused of setting fire to Montreal,was tortured,hanged,and had her body burned . Today, I honour that slave woman. Read more about this history in the biography I wrote of her life . #hangingofangelique

[BLACK ARCHIVES @blackarchivesco]

Beaufort, South Carolina. Photographs by Gabrielle Russomagno (late 1980s)

[i augustus durham @imeanswhatisays]

And just like that…

_Stay Black and Die: On Melancholy and Genius_ has a cover!

Gratitude to @Eshaw189 for blessing the book with his stunning work, and Courtney Baker at DUP for her aid in the design.

To read more about SBaD, click here: https://t.co/1ghULfxdvf

[Johnson C. Smith U. @JCSUniversity]

#JCSU Announces Dr. Valerie Kinloch as the 15th President of Johnson C. Smith University. Dr. @valeriekinloch will begin her term as president on August 1! #jcsu

[Fashioning the Self in Slavery and Freedom @FashioningSelf]

This is a photograph of an Emancipation Day celebration on June 19, 1900 in Eastwoods Park in Austin, Texas. A group of six well-dressed formerly enslaved individuals stand proudly before the photographer Grace Murray Stephenson, a young, white woman who lived nearby. Her photographs and account of the day were later published in the @sfchronicle. Today, these photographs are a record of the kind of early Juneteenth celebrations that inspire today's commemorations of African American freedom.

[Ameshia Cross @AmeshiaCross]

Sitting at Red Lobster and this older Black woman asks one of the servers if he likes working here. The young Black guys says "not really I'm just working and waiting for better opportunity and more money. I'm getting my GED soon"

The older lady smiles wide and says "son I'm

[Ameshia Cross @AmeshiaCross]

proud of you"

That young man teared up and excused himself but before he exited he said "no one's ever said they are proud of me before"

Yall I'm about to tear up all over this shrimp plate 😫😩

[B.B. Alston @bbalston]

FREE BOOKS! Teachers and librarians can request a free copy of Amari and the Night Brothers! Just send a DM with your preferred shipping address. US only this time

[GullahMuseumSC @GullahSc]

How did Charleston native Septima Poinsette Clark become—as Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King called her—the “Mother of the Movement?” And how did this Gullah Geechee woman become teach generations of white and Black American grassroots organizers?

[Benedict College @BenedictEDU]

Did you know? The quickest and easiest way to vote for BC is by using the hashtag #RYSBenedict on your Instagram and Twitter posts!

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