Michael Jackson was acquitted on all 14 charges in 2005. The fact that Netflix is revisiting that trial right now, at the exact moment the biopic is reintroducing his music to a new generation, should make every thinking person pause.
@_LSanz92@bigbrittxny Gen Z kid. I’m Gen X. Sometimes she thinks life🌹 and ☀️ and runs on her timeline….but it doesn’t. No one else gonna keep it trill.
Prince's estate will release "Timeless" on August 28.
The album includes 10 previously unreleased tracks from across his entire career — it spans from 1977 through the year of his death, 2016.
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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.
On this day in 1965, Oneal Moore was killed when he and his partner, the first two Black sheriff’s deputies in Washington Parish, Louisiana, were ambushed by gunmen with ties to the Ku Klux Klan.
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Michael Jackson becomes the first and only act in history to earn a new Hot 100 hit in each of the last six consecutive decades.
1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s and 2020s.
Happy Black Music Month🤎
President Jimmy Carter officially designated June as Black Music Month on June 7, 1979, hosting a historic reception on the White House lawn with performances from Chuck Berry, Billy Eckstine, & more.