September 1, 2005, Jabbar Gibson borrowed a school bus and transported about 60 people who were trapped in New Orleans, Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Jabbar drove about 350 miles from New Orleans to Houston.
Along the way, Gibbon and the passengers pooled their money to purchase fuel, water, ice, food, etc. to make sure everyone was safe.
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.
Fefe Dobson reflects on a turning point in her career when her album was shelved, only for the songs she wrote to later find new life through other artists like Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez.
This story always leaves out the Black Detroiters like Martha Jean Queen and Dr. Charles G. Adams who also helped to pay her rent. It was a group of them. Not just Illitch.
Bad Bunny paid homage to his uncle who played football by wearing his #64. And thanks to his desire to use an old NFL ball that had white stripes, I learned from @ProFootballHOF that when the white ball was banned in ‘56, a ball w/ stripes was used for night games until ‘76
I asked world champ Ohio State Buckeye Jaxon Smith-Njigba if he could tell the world why his name means so much to him. Just take a listen and make this go as viral as when they make a joke out of it #SuperBowl
Yesterday remembered 58 years since 3 students were killed at another 28 injured in the campus of South Carolina State University. The history books call it the Orangeburg Massacre. My father was one of the ones shot, but also the only one imprisoned (wrongfully) as a result of that nights violence.
Our history was not that long ago…
When I was in law school, Ken Burns came to campus and told us an anecdote about how relieved (segregated white) American troops were to encounter Black American troops in the woods of Germany, because Nazis had soldiers who could pass as Americans, but none that could pass as Black.
"Every day, I wake up and see the news and I'm horrified. I think it is crazy that some people make it sound like it's acceptable, like the murder of civilians is acceptable." - Victor Wembanyama says